PinkTentacle put it into words with succinct elegance; simultaneously capturing the history of the technology whilst communicating its current modern advance.

I tried for about 10 minutes to see how I could report this independently (the sources were listed) and failed.

Good job, PinkTentacle.

Good job, indeed.

In 1926, Kenjiro Takayanagi, known as the “father of Japanese television,” transmitted the image of a katakana character (イ) to a TV receiver built with a cathode ray tube, signaling the birth of the world’s first all-electronic television. Last week, in a symbolic gesture over 80 years later, researchers from Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Burton Inc. and Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. displayed the same katakana character using a 3D projector that generates moving images in mid-air.
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/aist-improves-3d-projector/

Props to PinkTentacle for a superbly written article. No one could have reported that any better.