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Among the wackiest technologies that I’ve seen during this election night is CNN’s hologram technology — something that was predicted back in the Star Wars era.

There’s not much info as to exactly how this stuff works, other than what USA Today has reported:

CNN will have 44 cameras and 20 computers in each remote location to capture 360-degree imaging data of the person being interviewed. Images are processed and projected by computers and cameras in New York. There’ll also be plasma TVs in Chicago and Phoenix that will let the people being interviewed see Blitzer and other CNN correspondents. Bohrman says the network can project two different views from each city so Blitzer can appear to be in the studio with two holograms.

Jessica Yellin was the first CNN reporter to be "beamed" to the New York newsroom, where Wolf Blitzer interviewed her — and she reported that there were only 35 cameras pointed at her, and that "talk to the cameras in New York." Apparently representatives in the Obama campaign in Chicago and the McCain campaign in Phoenix will be interviewed as holograms later in the evening.

It’s still unclear who makes this hologram technology, nor how much it costs, nor how exactly it works — nor when I’m going to get it in my house. Man, and I was just getting used to Skype video chat. Still, scope out the video below.

But at least they try, and while it’s funny, and you kind of feel bad for them, in the end they did put themselves out there to give it their all.

Woot, I donno why, but the trailer from the new Bryan Singer horror flick looks like it could be really good. Horror films have been too similar recently, with them falling into one of a few camps (ooh, someone’s dead a pissed off, which of the living has the skeleton in the closet that holds the key), or the death is pissed at the living in general and here it comes, or the technology let’s dead things eat the living’s brains in new and creative ways. And I tell ya, if I see one more remake of a Japanese horror film (some of which are really quite good, but the majority are just as ass as the dregs of the American market).

But check this out, and what do you think – would you want to see it?