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Handheld gadget offers a window on Rome\'s past
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08-20-2008, 11:28 PM
Interesting little device, if it works:

[url:355g219n]http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2008/08/handheld-gadget-offers-window-on-romes.html[/url]
L. Cornelius Scaeva (Jim Miller)
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08-25-2008, 07:54 PM
Wow, awesome!
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08-25-2008, 08:19 PM
Wonder if it uses GPS? Some lenses with the images projected in front would be really nifty.
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08-25-2008, 09:15 PM
Nice, but this is old news - I think I have read that two years ago already in a German magazin. Two points on the Ctesias Scale for the New Scientist. :wink:
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