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Video: Comcast’s 2,100-foot HD video wall
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by Doug Aamoth on June 2, 2009

If you’ve ever looked at your Comcast bill and thought, “That seems expensive!”, don’t worry. The company used some of your money it to put the biggest video wall I ever did see inside its corporate headquarters in Philadelphia. And can you really blame a company for using your money to build a giant TV?

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Video tour of Star Trek: The Exhibition at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute
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by Doug Aamoth on June 2, 2009

Jeff Victor of STARFLEET, the International Star Trek Fan Association, recently showed me around the 12,500-foot Star Trek exhibit at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute. We laughed, we cried, we played a little Dabo. Good times indeed.

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Video: Refractor telescope from 1934 still in use at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute
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by Doug Aamoth on May 31, 2009

Derrick Pitts, lead astronomer at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute, talks about the telescope used in the Bloom Observatory. The 10-inch refractor telescope has been around since 1934, and was built by Carl Zeiss Jena and shipped over from Germany.

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by Doug Aamoth on May 30, 2009

The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia is currently running a Star Trek exhibit with all sorts of whimsical items from the various TV shows and movies. A few devices, in particular, look mighty familiar to present-day gadgets.

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