When they scanned my BlackBerry display screen at the security checkpoint and at the gate, I felt like I had stepped into the future.

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Recently the long-delayed SlingCatcher came out of the gate, which -- with a little finagling on a PC screen-- can display virtually any video content available via broadband on a television using its SlingProjector technology.

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