The Telectroscope at the Fulton Ferry Landing
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The very real "illusion" is uncanny. Though I knew in advance that the device uses internet cable that transmits fast video, as I looked through the human-size scope at the people gathered on the other side in front of the Tower Bridge, I immediately suspended my disbelief. Wow! Those are Londoners I'm seeing in real time by means of a giant subterranean Atlantic tunnel. No tricks! No Internets!
After visiting the Telectroscope this past Sunday morning, just part of a fun sun-filled Memorial Day weekend, I chanced late in the day to fire up the World Wide Web and watch NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander beam back the first images from a mysterious wasteland on the Red Planet. Marveling at the clarity of the images, stunned a little that I would live so long as to see photos of Mars on my amazing personal computing device (yesterday was my birthday), I nevertheless felt a little disappointment looking at the barren-looking landscape of the famous planet. I've seen areas of West Texas that look like Mars, and there weren't many signs of life in those
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The Telectroscope (official site) installation continues through June 15, 2008 in London and New York.
The Telectroscope blog (more fun).
Related news article from the Telegraph.co.uk : The Telectroscope, London's window on New York.
Images: Yours truly, at the Fulton Ferry Landing, in Brooklyn, taking a picture of the people in London; and a wedding party on the Fulton Ferry landing, on the back side of the Telectroscope.
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