Yes, your eyes are deceiving you, LG's not licensed the StarTAC design. Phew. That telescopic antenna doesn't just harp back to ye olden days though, it also receives a digital TV signal, one of the first US DTV devices.

This intriguing dude is watching a black-and-white TV, with a DTV converter box, in a Starbucks. Hey, it's not his fault Hulu doesn't carry Jeopardy!, right? [Kansas City Blog via Boing Boing Gadgets]

This is our DTV transition flowchart, inspired by the Consumerist.

Out of the 300 million Americans in the United states, 3.5 million are still not ready for the DTV switch come June 12. Is that 3.5 million people or households? Either way, 3.5 million is quite a lot, considering my non-english speaking nanny is already all over her digital converter. Get with it, people. [Switched]

A UK for-profit firm called The Gadget Helpline surveyed 5,000 people to ferret out the industry's most confusing tech jargon. Luckily, they found most of the top 10 confusing terms are antiquated or proprietary:

Rejoice! If you are one of the two million still waiting for your Digital TV upgrade coupon, the government has put more money into it. Now you have plenty of time before the shutdown [AP]

By the end of today—the original, pre-delay shutoff deadline—641 TV (mostly small-market) stations across the country will cease analog broadcast. Panic! [Yahoo]

GPS satellites are just fast moving clocks, spewing out time code as they hurtle through space. Digital TV towers also spew time code, and could be a terrestrial GPS system or GPS assistant, says Ars.

Spanish-speaking viewers are finding the DTV transition to be particularly difficult because their favorite stations have either switched to digital or are too low power to be viewed outside of analog.

House Republicans have defeated the bill to extend the DTV switch by a vote of 258-168 (less than two-thirds). In their view, a delay would confuse customers and financially burden television stations.