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    CNN Election Night Talking Heads Will Be 3D Holograms Hanging Out With Wolf Blitzer

    I Vote For Technology

    How the Obama-Hating Voting Machine Fails

    Internet Voting Is Here (Kinda)

    Voting Machine: No, You Really Meant to Vote for McCain

    Google CEO Wants to Be President Obama's Tech Chief

    Lego Sarah Palin Winks, Says "Pew Pew" to Lego Bridges to Nowhere, Just Like the Real One

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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/04/08

    In reply to CNN Election Night Talking Heads Will Be 3D Holograms Hanging Out With Wolf Blitzer
    Yeah, it's nice the way she has to describe what's going on where she is because instead of SHOWING WHERE SHE IS! they have her AS A HOLOGRAM AT CNN DESCRIBING WHERE SHE IS!


    *sigh*

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    11/04/08

    In reply to CNN Election Night Talking Heads Will Be 3D Holograms Hanging Out With Wolf Blitzer
    NOW HOLD ON JUST A SECOND.


    If i'm reading this correctly, Wolf won't be able to see the holograms sitting next to him - they'll just be live 3D models rendered into the scene for those of us at home.


    Because *GASP* standalone holographic projectors don't actually exist yet.


    So you won't be seeing any 'holograms', you'll be seeing video 'chopped into the scene. These are no more holograms than CGI characters in movies are 'holograms'.

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    Image of tande04 tande04
    11/04/08

    @nutbastard: Yep thats how I was reading it too.


    My understanding was that there some forms of Holographic projectors. The one that Prince Charles used for example. This just doesn't seem to be one.


    Its going to be a live set and you'll see the backs of people's heads who aren't really there every once in awhile.


    Could do the same thing by just having a stand in sit in the chair...

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    11/04/08

    @tande04:


    wouldn't that simply be a "sit in"? it'd be pretty silly to stand in a chair.

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    Image of Monty Monty
    11/04/08

    @nutbastard: Yes, we were living the future until nutbastard had to bring us back to 1989.
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    Image of wjousts wjousts
    11/04/08

    In reply to CNN Election Night Talking Heads Will Be 3D Holograms Hanging Out With Wolf Blitzer
    For the love of god, WHY!!!
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    11/04/08

    @wjousts: Because they can. Duh.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/04/08

    In reply to CNN Election Night Talking Heads Will Be 3D Holograms Hanging Out With Wolf Blitzer
    Wolf. I command you to poke the hologram with a stick while that person is talking.
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    Image of Cordfucious of Tech Clan Cordfucious of Tech Clan
    11/04/08

    @Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: Dude... that was the best comment EVAR!!!!!! LMFAO
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    11/04/08

    In reply to CNN Election Night Talking Heads Will Be 3D Holograms Hanging Out With Wolf Blitzer
    Why can't they have "Naked News" election coverage using this technology? And I mean the real "Naked News" not Wolf "The Scud Stud" Blitzing the cameras for us.
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    Image of mvivas mvivas
    11/04/08

    In reply to I Vote For Technology
    boy people are tightasses around here.


    That's the problem with this country. We are so divided that we can't even accept someone's political perspective and we become 2 year olds and cry an say, "I don't love you anymore, I'm leaving and never want to see you again". Mature? Hardly.


    Personally, I'll have a cup of tea with an Obama supporter as much as a McCain supporter, I'll read a blog (a good one at that (GIZ)) even if they lean towards one side I'm not.


    At the end of the day, we are all Americans (except ya Canucks, who talk shit, but I wouldn't be caught dead on your pond). Let's stick together (no association with Tmobile whatsoever, so no beef please)

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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    11/04/08

    @mvivas: And how do I know if you're even American? American's drink coffee, not tea.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/04/08

    In reply to CNN Election Night Talking Heads Will Be 3D Holograms Hanging Out With Wolf Blitzer
    Wow indeed.


    An in: "Wow, what an awful lot of energy, money, and technology to fill a need that absolutely nobody has."


    I mean, normally I'm as excited for useless tech as the next Giz reader, but seriously....

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    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    11/04/08

    @92BuickLeSabre: I was going to try retorting that it's idiots like media execs who are willing to blow money on tech like this that make it more affordable for industries like medicine that might make better use of it... but then I remembered I just can't come to Blitzer's defense.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/04/08

    @SilasEspesh and rjp: I can't tell you how happy it makes me that you each came to opposite conclusions, but were unified in blaming that conclusion on Wolf Blitzer.
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    Image of bunziole bunziole
    11/04/08

    In reply to CNN Election Night Talking Heads Will Be 3D Holograms Hanging Out With Wolf Blitzer
    what channel and time
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/04/08

    @bunziole: You'll have to surf the subspace transceiver.
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    11/04/08

    In reply to CNN Election Night Talking Heads Will Be 3D Holograms Hanging Out With Wolf Blitzer
    .....something something something complete
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    Image of johnnyabnormal johnnyabnormal
    11/03/08

    In reply to I Vote For Technology
    Wow. I just read that Obama's grandmother just died today. No joke.
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    Image of Giz Has Lost It Giz Has Lost It
    11/03/08

    @johnnyabnormal: Oh, come on... just ONE? Pleeeassee?


    But I'll bet she got her absentee ballot in first!

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    11/03/08

    @Eric 'Vote 4 Me' Alder: She still has plenty of time to get her ballot in.
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    Image of johnnyabnormal johnnyabnormal
    11/03/08

    @Rabid Penguin: Oh! Low blow! Well, I guess the same applies to McCain.
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    Image of Shamoononon:  I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    11/03/08

    @johnnyabnormal: 160 thousand other people died today too.
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    Image of johnnyabnormal johnnyabnormal
    11/03/08

    @shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog:

    "160 thousand other people died today too."


    Except none of them were one day shy of seeing their grandson become America's first black president.


    P.S.


    Ahhhhhhhnold says no on prop 8 too!

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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    11/03/08

    In reply to I Vote For Technology
    Has anyone here read the NY Times article "Rivals' Visions Differ on Unleashing Innovation" from october 16, 2008?
    [www.nytimes.com]
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    Image of johnnyabnormal johnnyabnormal
    11/03/08

    In reply to I Vote For Technology
    Dammit. Has anyone else in here ever burned what they were cooking because they were too busy commenting? Being a contrarian douche bag = burnt soup.
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    Image of mconheady mconheady
    11/03/08

    In reply to I Vote For Technology
    Giz, Baby, Giz!

    There, the GOP now supports technology. Every issue can be solved the Republican way: a mindless, brainless, thoughtless chant that ignores the issues and gives people that can't make informed decisions something to say while the other side is doing all the work.
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    11/03/08

    @mconheady:

    Hope! Change! Yes we can!
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    11/03/08

    In reply to I Vote For Technology
    I heard Obama snorts crack, and eats babies. I also heard that McCain sold his soul to Satan and is required to sacrifice puppies on the first Tuesday of every month, and that's how he's been able to live for so long... if you call what he does living... So I can't see myself voting for either of them.
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    11/03/08

    @Rabid Penguin: Like I've said before: I'd rather vote undead than democrat - Zombie Reagan for President!!!!
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    Image of Bladefist Bladefist
    11/03/08

    In reply to I Vote For Technology
    "So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them."


    "Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket"


    -Obama


    No worries, Gadgets dont run on electricity. They run on hope.

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    Image of johnnyabnormal johnnyabnormal
    11/03/08

    @Bladefist:

    ""So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them.""-Obama


    Hate to tell you, but that whole story is a straw man:


    [www.sfgate.com]

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    Image of Bladefist Bladefist
    11/03/08

    @johnnyabnormal: That link doesn't make it a straw? Obama saying its out of context? It would be out of context possibly if all we had is one sentence. We have the whole f'ing interview.


    Dude, I'm sorry you pledged loyalty to this guy, and now your stuck between a rock and a hard place.

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    Image of johnnyabnormal johnnyabnormal
    11/03/08

    @Bladefist: Did you read the link? Palin is saying there is some sort of cover-up + they lift his words out of context. That is a fact. I'm not "stuck" for pointing that out at all. Btw, I HAD to share this with you:


    Please don't do this on Nov. 4th. :)

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