Tholos aims big with video-conferencing system

Why talk to strangers in your own city when you can talk to strangers across the continent?  Tholos Systems plans to let people in London and Vienna do just that (and, presumably, more useful things) next spring with a massive 3-metre high, 360-degree video-conferencing installation. (The inevitable question: can it prevent some cheeky Londoner from performing the inevitable first public pan-European moon?). The zoetrope-inspired rear-projection system uses HDTV
technology and high resolution cameras and even has specially coated screens to prevent graffiti. Especially useful since you wouldn't want to waste any time staring at the Eiffel Tower in front of you when you could look at the Leaning Tower of Pisa on some high-def screen, would you?