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Holograms are no more a scientific fantasy, but more a scientific reality. Soon you may be able to interact with colleagues around the world as though they were right in front of you. Video conferencing may be the current answer to globalization; however, things would change with holographic devices. Families too would stand to benefit from holographic devices, especially when parents need to be out-of-town.

Holographic devices may take a while to enter the market. However, they are bound to become popular amongst consumers looking for solutions through technology. Holographic devises such as holo-projectors could be installed in offices and homes, which may soon become as popular as mobile technology. Many would love the idea of working from home and not having to commute to work since they could have an office environment within their home. The benefits of holograms could far outweigh the disadvantages, which could lead to an invasion of holographic technology in our homes. Possibly, holograms could interact with the environment.

The possibilities are endless. Of course, there will be loads of research requiring time and money to bring more than an audio visual experience to people. Technology is forever changing, which will no doubt bring about better hologram capabilities. We could see holograms having a significant impact on our workplace. Offices could be brought home, and vice versa, taking telecommuting to another level. This technology has already got many entrepreneurs designing some great applications for this new science. We may be looking at a 500 million to 1.5 Billion Dollars market in a span of two years, which would just be the beginning. Modern day holographic imaging has already seen several major breakthroughs in its technology, with the entertainment industry leading the way. Spectral Imaging has been perfected by IBM and is used as a business marketing tool. Soon it will be used to display holographic looking virtual images, or people. Welcome to the future.

Anyone with a taste for the surreal will just love this. It’s a rather strange animation by David Firth called, ‘Salad Fingers’. It’s all a little bit difficult to explain, but I shall do my very best…

Salad Fingers, a green and lanky figure, lives in a strange and barren-looking world. The only other characters to dwell here are odd and often scary creatures that wander around the landscape now and then. They do not appear to have any specific purpose to their lives; but in ‘Salad Fingers’, nothing appears to have any specific purpose.

There is no great story to follow in this animation; each episode simply follows our character’s interaction with some random object. I just watched one about a nettle (in a pram) and found the whole thing a bit freaky…

The background music in the cartoon is a rather unsettling track by Boards of Canada called, ‘Beware the Friendly Stranger’ and other musicians lend their work to this cartoon from time to time as well. Brian Eno, Aphex Twin and Sigur Ros have all been credited in the animation.

A friend of mine is a really big Sigur Ros fan and I shall have to send her an email…

If you could transfer David Lynch from film to cartoon then you would probably end up with ‘Salad Fingers’. It is eerie, amusing, disturbing and addictive to watch. The animation has gained a very large cult following over the last six years. You can now even buy ‘Salad Fingers’ T-shirts, stickers and button badges!

So, I was speaking to my brother who works in the city and he reckons that there is massive money in buying stocks for heating oil supplier. He is one of those types of people who is of the belief that America is trying to seize the world by taking over the Middle East. I must say I am getting bored of the fact that everyone seems to have the same reasoning on this.

I've just read a strange book recommend to my by Alex the crazy museo in the wooden hut at the back of the garden. Strange really, it is little like Bill and Ted's time management book. It does have a strange charm to it though, usually I can't read this type of thing.

The basic concept is very simple it uses the metaphor for work tasks as frogs, and the nastier the task is, the bigger and more ugly the frog is, the harder it would be to bring your to eat. The main idea is simple, if when you get up in the morning you is eat the largest and ugliest frog everything else that day is going to go a lot better. (more…)