Would You Like a McMovie With That? And The Ultimate Movie Projector

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Movie, music or game with your Big Mac, sir? That’s what The Walt Disney Company in Hollywood has in mind. Patents filed by Disney reveal plans to drip-feed entertainment into a portable player while the owner eats in a restaurant.

You only get the full programme by coming back to the restaurant a number of times to collect all the instalments. McDonalds could use the system instead of giving out toys with Happy Meals, suggests Disney’s patent.

Why do I get the idea that this is going to turn out to be every parent’s nightmare?

The video projector looks way cooler, IMHO.

Video projectors are designed to work by illuminating flat screens or walls, but home and office walls seldom have large, flat areas free. A new system claims to solve the problem by projecting distortion-free images onto areas including corners, ceilings, doors and other irregularities.

Probably the most interesting possibility is this part

The settings can then be fine-tuned on the fly, for instance to compensate for distortion caused when a lecturer stands in front of the screen.

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I can’t remember who makes it, but there’s a conference room projector that does a sort of reverse “green screen” bit - it senses when a person is standing in front of it and blacks out a person-shaped chunk of the image on the fly so your presenter doesn’t have words or graphs on their face.