Studio Ghibli's "Spirited Away, " which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film in 2003, remains the top-grossing Japanese film in history, and Miyazaki, who co-founded the studio in 1985, has been called "Japan's Walt Disney" for his impact on the country's animation culture.

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The device saves all the data from each hit, namely the animation, path, putter-face angle at impact and throughout the stroke, angle of attack, tempo, impact speed and swing path distance -- in other words, more information than most players would know what to do with.

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Two of the areas that seem most promising to me, in terms of cultural impact, are the performance of electronic music and the real-time production of animation.

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