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"I can remember when the first pulsars were discovered. I was able to go and sit down and listen to graduate students talking about what their theories, to explain what pulsars really were."
- Vernor Vinge
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| Videoshades | ||
| Sunglasses that let you watch what you want. |
This is another phrase for the idea of using glasses as a means of projecting video images to a single user.
| After his afternoon sun worship David stayed outside…He'd found some gardening tools in a shed and tackled the front acreage, stripped to the waist and wearing his videoshades. |
| From Islands in the Net,
by Bruce Sterling. Published by William Morrow in 1988 Additional resources -
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