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Educated as an electrical engineer, Kutaragi joined Sony in 1975 and helped develop several cutting-edge products: a liquid-crystal-display projector, a sophisticated sound-processing chip, an early digital camera. And when a joint venture with Nintendo to build a home-video-game console broke down in 1990, Kutaragi demonstrated vision and management expertise. Rather than concede the business to Nintendo, he formed a team within Sony to build a better system, pressing ahead against internal opposition. PlayStation, released in late 1994, vaulted over Nintendo's Super NES to become the world's top home-gaming platform...
...with an invisibility cloak. A professor at the University of Tokyo has created an optical camouflage system that makes anyone wearing a special reflective material seem to disappear. Here's how: a video camera records the real-life scenery behind the subject, transmits that image to a front-mounted projector, which then displays the scene on the reflective material. The system has obvious military applications and could also be used in airplane cockpits to make landings easier for pilots...
Sometimes, the film physically shrinks, and it won’t play in the projector...
With their combination of handmade “Harvard for Dean” signs and expensive projector equipment, Dean’s supporters were fighting for every vote on Friday—and will continue to in the months to come...
...officer was dispatched to take a report of a stolen computer projector bulb in a Harvard Medical School building at 180 Longwood...