I absolutely love that so many of us were inspired by Star Wars and other adventures.  I just saw an article on Wired about the ICT Graphics Lab at USC.  They have created a “low-cost volumetric 3-D display that brings every kid’s hologram dreams closer to reality.”  We’ve seen holograms in the past but this is getting pretty cool. It makes perfect sense to show a TIE fighter in your brand new volumetric 3-D display.

Interesting that the article was posted on Wired today, but the video on youTube was posted August of ‘07.

Two more images.

Finally!  Netflix gave us the opportunity to go online, build a virtual library of movies and then have them delivered right to our door.  This brilliant business model was done so well that Blockbuster took notice and then started their own direct DVD delivery system.  But what’s next?  Well, you just have to skip the Disk delivery and have it come through the internet.

Amazon Unbox is trying this now. You can “rent” a movie that streams to your computer.  Pretty cool stuff.  But Netflix wasn’t going to sit by the sidelines on this one.  They too offer streaming videos to your computer.  It’s pretty cool stuff, but I don’t want to sit infront of my computer more that I do already.  So here’s the big news.

Rumor has it that Sony will be announcing at E3 that they will make a movie download service available to US PlayStation 3 owners this summer.  This in conjuction with plans to make tv service also available.  So I have a great video game console, a Blue Ray DVD player, harddrive to store music, photos, and downloaded tv shows, and soon, a way to watch tv and movies.  AWESOME!