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By Kristi Heim, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 13--Imagine if your computer screen curved around your head, immersing you in information, images and sounds.
Taking a cue from the film industry, Gary Starkweather had a hunch that enlarging and bending the screen would make computers much more natural to use.
"I'd never seen moviegoers get really thrilled on small screens," he said. "It becomes a much more compelling experience at an IMAX theater. I thought 'What if we had a computer display that looked more like a Cinerama?' "
That hunch has led to a two-year project at Microsoft, where Starkweather -- who invented the laser printer at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center and won an Academy Award for his work on film scanning -- is developing a new kind of computer display.
Starkweather...
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