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: Photo: Alexander Martin, 1929We tour the history of man-made lights, from oil to arcs to neon. See how far we've come. Left: Often cited as the most profound and significant human discovery, humans finally were able to manifest light by using fire. Providing civilizations' artificial...(more)
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The terrorists in Mumbai might have committed inhuman acts, but in at least one way, they are just like you and me. When authorities cut the cable feeds to the hotels where the terrorists held over 200 hostages, they relied on another piece technology to monitor...(more)
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NewsFactor - The advertising and marketing company hired to create Apple's commercials poking fun at Microsoft's Vista operating system might get new material to work with. After Microsoft tried to protect its top brass from testifying in a case involving "Windows Vista Capable" PCs, a judge...(more)
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Do you know what we are going to do while we are not playing with the Lego Death Star, waiting for the laser-etching machiine to tattoo one your gadgets for free and listening to our original Sony Walkman? I mean, apart from unsuccessfully calling for pizza...(more)
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The general consensus, among experts, analysts and other blowhards has long been that when Blu-ray players legitimately hit $199, the format would finally go mainstream. Well, $200 Blu-ray players are all over the place for Christmas, even Sony's BDP-S350, with its unshakeable $299 MSRP. But according...(more)
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Mary Lou Jepsen—the XO Laptop's designer and OLPC's CTO before defecting and founding Pixel Qi—has even grander ambitions for new laptop project than hitting a mythical $75 pricetag. Pixel Qi is working on a laptop will be able to run on a standard for 20...(more)
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QI've been living in Europe for years and have collected some 400 DVDs. When I move back to the States soon, the region code on these discs will prevent them from working in U.S. DVD players. What are my options? ATo evade these arbitrary restraints...(more)
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Joost lost the video war a while ago, thinking a P2P app that imitated TV would be the way people wanted to watch TV and movies on their computer. They were wrong, and only recently rectified the mistake. It's probably too late for them. But their...(more)
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Since its launch in March, video-streaming site Hulu has become a popular place to catch TV shows, video clips and movies for free on the Web....
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PC World - As the second anniversary of the launch of Nintendo's Wii approaches sales of the console have passed the 7 million mark, according to figures released on Wednesday.
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PC World - Blockbuster has officially entered the "battle of the boxes" with the launch of its new set-top box yesterday. The box will serve movies to TVs over the Internet and is going against Netflix's set-top box solutions (Xbox, Roku, and Tivo). Blockbuster's MediaPoint box...(more)
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PC World - Display screen technology developer Mary Lou Jepsen is working at her new start-up to create laptop PCs so energy efficient they'll be able to run on a standard laptop battery for 20 to 40 hours before needing a recharge.
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