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[Grey Jinjo]

Using a concave mirror, Airborne Ultrasound Tactile Display and Wii Remotes, University of Tokyo researchers have created a tangible hologram projector.

The mirror makes the hologram appear to be “floating” in the air, while the Airborne Ultrasound Tactile Display shoots focused ultrasonic waves to create the feeling of a holographic ball or holographic rain falling on one’s hand.

^3D Holograms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-P1zZAcPuw

Originally Posted by ABC News

When Dustin Britton ventured 100 feet from his Wyoming campsite last week, he was prepared to cut wood, not go saw to paw combat with a starving mountain lion.

"Within seconds, I see this lion over 20 feet from me just standing there looking at me. I could see just its head there in the grass, of course it scared the pants off of me," Britton told ABC's "Good Morning America Weekend."

Britton was afraid, but he said it didn't appear that the lion had any fear at all. Standing just 100 feet from his wife, Kirsta, and two toddlers at the campsite, Britton tried to run away from the lion into a clearing, but the lion followed him. Lucky for Britton, he had a chainsaw.

But undeterred by Britton's revved up chainsaw, the lion pounced.

"It pushed me back a few steps," said Britton, who used his training in the Marines to fend off the animal. "As it came up, I brought the saw up and so it batted my arms and the saw three or four times. Then I hit it as hard as I could with that saw at full throttle trying to hit it in the neck."

The lion backed down, but Britton said it "didn't leave in a hurry."

"You would think if you hit an animal with a chainsaw it would dig right in," Britton told The Associated Press. "I might as well have hit it with a hockey stick."

source: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=8118412&page=1

AND HE DIDN'T DIE AFTER ALL!