The traditional photochemical process prevented Lucas from getting what was in his head onto the screen.
His political transformation had clear markers, going from head of the Screen Actors Guild to spokesman for General Electric.
"A smaller form factor is not only more attractive to many consumers, it will cost less to manufacture, ship and stock, " Piers Harding-Rolls, head of games at IHS Screen Digest, told the BBC.
She pokes her head up from behind the flat screen monitor and stands up to greet us with a wide smile.
"Historically there have been moments where franchises have fallen out of style, " says Piers Harding-Rolls, head of games research at IHS Screen Digest.
The Virtual Music Instrument software is designed to play prerecorded musical samples when the person waves a hand or tilts their head, activating symbols on the screen.
"It is an expensive genre, " says David Hancock, head of film and cinema at IHS Screen Digest.
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You can either while away an hour-long train journey getting lost in a paperback, or alternatively you could bury your head in some absorbing prose on a screen two inches (4cm) wide.
With the new phone, the user does not need to bow his head to poke at a salient pixel on the screen.
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For instance, Smart scroll will scroll the screen based on the angle of your head and Smart pause will stop playing a video when you look away.
We think of the steady stride, that tilt of the head and snap of the salute, the big screen smile and the glint in his Irish eyes when a story came to mind.
Amazon is anticipated to introduce a Kindle Fire to compete head-on with the iPad by introducing a larger-screen tablet.
Pretty much everyone has a continuous stream of internal monologue running in their head, like the crawl at the bottom of the TV screen.
Hocking says developer enthusiasm's been particularly intense for split-screen, even more so than the holographic and head-mounted display technologies that Sony's working on, and we may see the feature integrated in Bravia televisions should the idea take off.
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The Angry Birds are also going to the big screen in their own 3D feature film produced by former Marvel head David Maisel.
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So if a consumer can look at a device head on, but the minute they look to the side and a screen moves into their periphery, the device maker, content provider, etc. are all violating this patent.
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And others might complain that the Alex Knapp on screen looks and sounds nothing like the one they have in their head.
This research and development project consists of a hands-free, head-mounted display that uses augmented reality to give you a whole new screen (i.e. the physical world in front of you) on which to display information.
Always remember to sit up straight, with your head in a level position, not bent forward, with the top of your computer screen just below eye level.
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It's not: what it does is place the device into writing mode, snapping a shot of the screen's contents and letting you jot down whatever mumbo jumbo pops into your head.
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