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Old 07-12-2007, 10:40 PM   #52
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If anyone here remembers the George Pal movie The Time Machine, they might remember the "speaking rings" that simply needed to be placed on a table and spun with a hand, in order to speak. The beauty of the rings were that the recording, and the replay system, were self-contained, requiring only kinetic energy to function.

This is the optimum goal for any sound (or motion) based recording system: Making sure it can essentially play itself, powered by the simplest of energy sources.

So here's an idea: A holographic crystal is placed in the sun. Sunlight passes through the crystal, and illuminates a discrete holographic image at that particular angle. As the sun moves in the sky, it illuminates a new image at each angle... if you can pack enough holographic information to create, say, 30 images for each second of the sun's motion, you have a movie. (Okay... I am writing this one down...)
Wasn't that in a Stargate episode where they found that people had tried the rings back in the WW-II period? I know I have seen that one before.
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