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Proving once again that technology can only do so much to jazz up a boring presentation, a holographic version of England's Prince Charles recently delivered a pre-recorded speech on the environment to an Abu Dubai audience, and no one seems interested enough to have taken a photo. Using only a single camera and projector, technicians from British firm Musion were able to employ a century-old trick known as "Pepper's ghost" to record the Prince of Wales speak at Highgrove last year and then rebroadcast the performance as a way to congratulate the Middle Eastern country on its plans to build a zero carbon city. Environmentalists note that this method r