Word: pocketable
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...Though invisibility cloaks won’t be sold as Halloween costumes anytime soon, plenty of other consumer gadgets based on optical breakthroughs are hitting the market. Several companies are selling “pocket projectors” for less than $500 this holiday season that are the size of an iPhone and can project a digital image as wide as 50 inches onto any surface. Take it camping and project “Iron Man” onto the side of the tent. Bring it to a job interview and project a brief slideshow pitch about your Webkinz-Pokemon...
...from perpendicular. But the coolest aspect of all is that they can be “printed,” using an inkjet printer, onto other materials. That means you can wear a shirt with a video on it. Or roll up your screen and put it in your pocket. A few years down the line it might even be economical to create newspapers with moving images imbedded into the page à la Harry Potter...
...This is misplaced guilt. A volunteer armed with a pocket projector in rural Africa could project an educational video onto the wall of a house. OLEDs will help people cut their power consumption and reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Even those who buy gadgets for their own enjoyment are helping to fund optics research and encourage technical experimentation. Improving our mastery of optics will improve our ability to communicate and light the path to the future we’ve all been waiting...
...Massively. That is, it had bet that the price was going down by contracting to sell millions of barrels of oil it did not own at a future date, on the assumption that the price would fall and SemGroup could supply the barrels at a lower price and pocket the difference. Three days after oil peaked, as it still threatened new all-time highs, the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) called margin on SemGroup, forcing the firm to put up more cash collateral to back its losing positions. Unable to raise the capital, SemGroup sold its entire crude-oil futures...
...This is one of the best schools in the world,” Van Nest says. “The one thing that put it over the top for me was the plans after school—whatever I want to do, having a Harvard degree in your back pocket will help.”It was the same reason that drew Kenyi, a recruit who received offers from Marquette and George Mason.“It was the best combination of school and athletics for me,” he says. “A perfect situation...