When Linens and Things and Sharper Image closed, gift cardholders scrambled to use what they had with only depleted close-out inventory to choose from.

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The cinema systems also don't flicker -- a big complaint about the active lenses, which shutter open and closed very rapidly to try to send a different image to each eye.

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Grubb and Chambers thanked the woman, closed the curtains, walked to a PC, and printed the image they had just seen.

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