***THIS!***To clarify, no, I do not want a copy of Crypton Future Media's Hatsune Miku Character Vocal Series software. Nor do I want a ticket to a Hatsune Miku concert. I don't even want a Hatsune Miku CD. No no, no Hatsune Miku stuff at all! Honest! I'm a mad scientist dang it! I care not about such things! What I
DO want however, is that extremely cool holographic* projection system that they are using to project that little tart of a CG artificial J-Pop star with-- the duel high-lumen high-definition projector system, the huge transparent rear projection screen, all of the high-end computer and AV equipment powering it, all of
that stuff! That's the stuff that I want!!! A fantastic holographic display setup like that just begs to have an interactive life-size CG Krystal or Renamon projected onto it!!! It would be even better if I could project a detailed CG version of my own
Foxee character on there! And if you could add additional capabilities to the character, such as the natural language processing capabilities of a product such as IBM's Watson supercomputer or Apple's Siri, and the motion-tracking capabilities of Microsoft's Kinnect, and now you are starting to get yourself a very rudimentary furry-version of the AI construct "Cortana" from
Halo! Or in other words, a very compelling reason for me to never have to leave my underground computer-laden cave (a.k.a. "basement") ever again! (Or at the very least, create for myself a much better companion than late night AM talk radio is when it comes to keeping me company as I work by myself in my cold, dark, and lonely computer cave into the wee hours of the night doing all of my mad-scientisty-type things.
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Naturally, this kind of equipment is massively cost prohibitive, so this is very much a wild crazy (or shall we say, "mad") fantasy gift. I don't even think that the vile yuppie-spawn that live in the nearby evil encampment known as
Hinsdale could afford this stuff, or someone from there would have rubbed it in my face already. However, with a little bit of BoPET film and an old LCD screen and I may be able to construct a much crappier poor man's version of this. We'll see. I guess that means what I really want for Christmas is some BoPET film!
...and maybe a couple APC Uninterrupted Power Supplies, some more 1U sliding rail sets and shelves for my server racks, a PIC Microcontroller embedded C programming development kit, a build-it yourself Doppler Radio Direction Finder kit, a book on Amateur Radio Astronomy, a book on programming webbots, spiders, and screen scrapers, a Commodore 128D 8-bit microcomputer, and the new Winnie the Pooh DVD. Yeah, that should about do it!
* Before some smartypants chimes in to correct me, yes I already know that the technology behind transparent rear projection screens is not truly holographic because it is only displaying a flat projected 2D image and not a reconstructed light field. There is no need to lecture me about it. 
