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Holograms are cool. But holograms you can actually touch? A team of researchers from The University of Tokyo has created just such a technology. The tactile hologram, which is being shown-off this week at the SIGGRAPH conference in New Orleans, actually involves two basic pieces: A hologram, which is generated simply by shining an LCD projector onto a concave mirror, and a novel technique which creates ultrasonic waves.
Websites such as Facebook and MySpace encourage teenagers to view friendship as a "commodity" and are leading them to suicide, the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has warned.
"Among young people often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. "
"They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate."
This week almost 15 million people watched a wedding video, Apple removed Google Voice from the appstore which created an intense debate about the fairness of it, a publication about Gartner’s Hype Cycle and also there was something about collaboration between Yahoo and Microsoft, however that seems to have disappeared in all the noise about Apple.
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I love and live social media and therefore I help people and enterprises in how they can use social media in a way that adds value for them.
In the past I used to be a successful long distance swimmer who won several national championships and crossed the the IJsselmeer three times (a swim of approximately 25km).
In the present I am a social media evangelist at Capgemini, technological optimist, blogger and consultant.
