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Solar panels down to $1 a watt
Mar 1, 2009 at 2:06 pmEnergy conservation and getting off the grid is important to every Audiophile. A solar power milestone was reached on Tuesday when First Solar Inc brought its manufacturing costs for solar panels down to $1 per watt. But a study from the University of California and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs suggests that this might be the bottom for a price-point—if solar power is ever going to scale up to become competitive with other forms of energy.
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High Definition video over WIFI
Feb 21, 2009 at 8:38 amSeveral next-generation wireless schemes, including WiMax, 4G cellular technology, and others that explore previously untapped parts of the radio spectrum, promise faster, better connectivity through the air. But these standards still face business and technological challenges. In the midst of all this, a startup called Quantenna plans to improve wireless connectivity simply by supercharging Wi-Fi.
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Breakthrough in super efficient LED manufacturing
Jan 29, 2009 at 8:11 amLEDS are used throughout most of the consumer electronics industry. They appear in just about every product, including the latest video screens on computers and even large flat panel televisions. The green initiative to reduce electrical energy costs has long advocated the use of LEDS to replace either tungsten (standard light bulbs) or fluorescent light bulbs, but the cost of manufacturing LEDS has been somewhat prohibitive. We may have a fix
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Holographic storage could replace Blue Ray
Jan 26, 2009 at 4:07 pmJust as Blu-ray is starting to replace the DVDs in our homes, another technology is developed that could sound its death knell. Discs which can hold 20 times as much data as a Blue Ray's 50 gigabytes have just taken a step closer, thanks to new materials that make reading and writing 3D holograms more reliable. This article details how holographic storage works and the breakthroughs that make it closer to being available.
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Flexible color displays on the horizon
Jan 20, 2009 at 9:05 amThink of the possibilities of having a flexible see-through color display for your equipment or your equipment's remote control. South Korean researchers are using Graphene to build flexible see-through displays that could someday be the basis of your system's remote control, your cell phone or any number of uses. Tiny flexible "books" could be built from this amazing new technology or even clothing! Flexible electronics is what engineers want
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Circuit City closes its doors
Jan 17, 2009 at 3:51 pmIn a move not too surprising to many in the high end audio and video business, beleaguered retailer Circuit City is done. Many in the high end have noted the steady decline of the store's conditions, the lack of sales help, lack of general direction and have predicted the store's demise for some time. CC's direct competitor, Best Buy with it's in-store high end venture Magnolia Hi Fi is doing better, but not great.
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PerfectWave Receives Editor’s Pick
Jan 16, 2009 at 3:36 pmCE Pro Magazine picks PS Audio's PerfectWave audio series as one of their "6 CES standout products" for the entire CE industry. PS CEO Paul McGowan explains "to be chosen by the editors of CE Pro magazine as one of their six best products for innovative technology in '09 is a huge score for PS". We rarely even get on CE Pro's radar screen for a mention let alone chosen for this great honor."
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3D for the iPhone
Dec 31, 2008 at 9:58 amCreate and watch 3D images on your iPhone without having to wear those dorky glasses! SpatialView has announced the Wazabee 3DeeShell, a protective casing that includes a removable lens to displays 3D stereoscopic images on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch without glasses. SpatialView also offers software to create your own 3D images using the iPod camera! The housing contains a lens that eliminates the need for special 3D glasses, w
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Molecular size computer gate shrinks computer size
Dec 30, 2008 at 9:11 amOver the last 60 years, ever-smaller generations of transistors have driven exponential growth in computing power. Could molecules, each turned into miniscule computer components, trigger even greater growth in computing over the next 60? And, if so, what benefits would this have to home AV systems?
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Wireless network uses light instead of radio
Dec 29, 2008 at 9:48 amBoston University’s College of Engineering is a partner launching a major program, under a National Science Foundation grant, to develop the next generation of wireless communications technology based on visible light instead of radio waves. Researchers expect to piggyback data communications capabilities on low-power light emitting diodes, or LEDs, to create “Smart Lighting” that would be faster and more secure than current network technology.
