Gallery: Forget a Message in a Bottle. Send a YouTube Video in a Giant Balloon

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    Attachment, a machine that sends links into the air via balloon.
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    A Katy Perry video, or some other linked piece of digital content, climbing in the crisp air above the Alps.
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    Not a bad view.
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    Colombini says the machine's a work in progress---he's waiting for further funding to make some refinements.
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    A sample message, which recipients can redeem at a site Colombini built.
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    A close-up of the apparatus.
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