Check out CNN holograph!

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1. Appear any minute Yoda will n/t

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2. So certain are you.

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3. Here's an annoucement article -- kewl technology.

USA TODAY got an exclusive peek at the holographic technology, which CNN hopes to unveil prior to the election on ''The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.'' CNN is still fine-tuning the technology.

''It's so complicated,'' Bohrman says. ''The crew is basically shooting someone that isn't there.''

CNN will have 44 cameras and 20 computers in each remote location to capture 360-degree imaging data of the person being interviewed. Images are processed and projected by computers and cameras in New York.

There will also be plasma TVs in Chicago and Phoenix that will let the people being interviewed see Blitzer and other CNN correspondents. Bohrman says the network can project two different views from each city so Blitzer can appear to be in the studio with two holograms.



What others are doing » Fox News has built three new HD studios for tonight's broadcast so it can make better use of the additional TV real estate with updated county results, comparative numbers from previous elections and poll-closing times. A giant wall with touch-screen technology will provide electoral map results.

» ABC's digital maps make their debut, letting correspondents look at up-to-the-minute votes by county, and compare votes as far back as 1960. Also, a double ticker line at the bottom of TV screens will display current popular and electoral totals for Obama and McCain.

» NBC spent the past year designing two studios that make the most of visual technology. One features intricate exit-polling information that digitally appears on a wall. The other studio lets political director Chuck Todd analyze presidential results by region, state and county. And it has partnered with MySpace on Decision08, an online section that includes video, news feeds and blogs from NBC News.

» CBS News will analyze national and state exit-poll data, using state-of-the-art technology to display vote-counting and demographic data. Touch-screen technology will allow anchor Katie Couric to drill down on state and county results for all races. .


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