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Laser Backpack Builds Instant Virtual Interiors

Posted August 11, 2010 1:56 PM

From Gizmodo:

A UC Berkley team has built a giant room-scanning backpack, brimming with lasers and cameras, that can map an interior and generate a 3D model. The potential utility for services like Google Maps is huge, but also, laser backpack.

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08/12/2010 8:22 AM

"The potential utility for services like Google Maps is huge, but also, laser backpack."

Is it me, or is there something very wrong with this attempt at a sentence?

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08/12/2010 9:04 AM

There are sentences which are a mistery, but also, language crimes.

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08/12/2010 10:46 AM

Well, it's Gizmodo and as such they're trying to emote in edgy-hipster youth-speak.

Try reading it as:

"The potential utility for services like Google Maps is huge. And it's a laser backpack! That sounds so cool and futuristic to us!"

Now can you dig their groovy lingo, daddy-o?

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Re: Laser Backpack Builds Instant Virtual Interiors

08/12/2010 11:01 AM

I like this sentence:

So, without ever going anywhere, you can see what everybody's interior looks like.

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08/12/2010 11:06 AM

Yes, I spotted that little gem!

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