A TV which projects 3-D holograms could be sold within ten years, predict experts. It would beam images into the middle of the room so they "float", like in Star Wars when R2-D2 makes Princess Leia appear.

Programmes would be filmed with laser technology, said Prof John Watson of Aberdeen University.

He said TVs could be mounted on a wall or work as a table with images hovering above.

By EMMA MORTON

Health and Science Editor

Published: Today

Hologram message ... R2-D2 in Star Wars

I can't wait. Imagine Holographic porn!

I just knew someone would say that!

I can't wait. Imagine Holographic porn!

Do you remember the film with Gene Wilder, were they had an helmet called an Orgasmatron

I can't wait. Imagine Holographic porn!

Do you remember the film with Gene Wilder, were they had an helmet called an Orgasmatron

'Twas Woody Allen in Sleeper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgasmatron

Twas Barbarella first.

Dr Durand Durand.

Girls on Film - Duran Duran.

//edit/ may have got that wrong/ buy video next available opportunity/ available in Thailand?

I can't wait. Imagine Holographic porn!

Do you remember the film with Gene Wilder, were they had an helmet called an Orgasmatron

'Twas Woody Allen in Sleeper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgasmatron

Just testing you were paying attention

It will only mean we'll get cube eyes instead of square eyes.

Has all of Australia got light bulbs yet ?

Has all of Australia got light bulbs yet ?

Yes they have. But they don't know what to do with them, cos they haven't all got Electricity

We've had buckets of that electrickery stuff for years. As soon as we figure out how to pipe it around we'll have the light globes working as well.

Youse Poms want to work a little harder inventing soap before you point the finger at us.

Youse Poms want to work a little harder inventing soap before you point the finger at us.

You mean you lot are still using soap. We're much beyond that now and use shower gel. They don't spread skin deseases

You take showers with people with skin diseases?

Monorails, food in tablet form, we'll all be living on the moon etc. etc.

You take showers with people with skin diseases?

Yeah. Took a shower with an Aussie Sheila once

My God, the least of your worries would be skin diseases then. :D

Be OK if it was interactive TV. I want to be able to sit in my lounge watching some interview with some prehistoric old meathead politician and I can shout out "You fat useless repulsive b@st@d we all know you are lying your lips are moving you brainless moronic tw@t" (as I do quite regularly) and he could hear me.

Now that would be what I'd call community television.

Well politicians always say that they appreciate any feedback from the electorate.

Seems I am not alone.

Man fined for swearing at TV

A man has been fined £80 for swearing at his own television while drunk.

Plumber Martin Solomon, 62, was heard by neighbours as he shouted 'foul and offensive language' at his TV, magistrates in Stroud, Glos, heard.

His ranting put him in breach of an anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) which had been imposed at an earlier hearing to try to stop him shouting and swearing at the television whenever he disagreed with a programme.

Simon James, defending at Stroud Magistrates' Court, said: "Mr Solomon often drinks more than is good for him.

"He will have a drink and will return home.

"Then he will put on the television and if someone on the TV says something that upsets him, he will swear at the TV.

"Drink appears to be the problem - he admits that it's his companion."

The court heard that his neighbours in Farmhill close, Stroud - among them two children aged two and 11 - were disturbed from their sleep and upset by the language.

Stroud District Council obtained the two-year ASBO order in Gloucester Magistrates' Court on September 27 last year.

But Solomon broke the order on October 21 at 10.10pm, October 23 at 23.55pm and November 10 at 9.55pm, the court heard.

Colin Peake, SDC's anti-social behaviour co-ordinator, said: "It's very frustrating for the family next door who've got two young children.

"Martin is a nice man but drink is the devil amongst him."

He was fined £80 and told to pay £60 costs plus a £15 victim surcharge at the hearing on Thursday.

Must have been watching Fox News.

"Bill O'Reilley you #*@*"

I can relate to that, I'd have given him a pound out of the poor box.

Victim surcharge?

Does the 'victim' get the quid? (All sorts of issues.)

Has all of Australia got light bulbs yet ?

More than light bulbs let me tell ya!!!

http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/t...am-party-trick/

Although he was in Melbourne, Telstra's chief technology officer, Hugh Bradlow (right), makes is presence felt at a conference in Adelaide.

Photo: Telstra

I suppose we don't have to wear the silly cardboard glasses any more?

I would find that really scary, imagine Freddy Kruger in your face, but wouldn't mind Keanu. The selling of hallucinogens will go down big time.

At the moment i don't even have a telly, mine broke so have to watch on computer.

I can`t wait for what video game consoles will have to offer by then.

I can`t wait for what video game consoles will have to offer by then.

I play Age of Empires, would I need a shield and armor for any stray spears and arrows???

I can`t wait for what video game consoles will have to offer by then.

I play Age of Empires, would I need a shield and armor for any stray spears and arrows???

I would assume so hey......also a horse and armour

Can`t wait for the future of entertainment.

I spend most of my time waiting to be entertained, the pay isn't good but the smoke breaks are long.