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more about #ge more comments → Slinkytech: Well say goodbye to ANYTHING you liked from NBC. Goodbye! more » BeyondtheTech: Given Comcast Cable's horrendous compression rates (even in HD), will the new NBC peacock symbol just be six, large, square pixels in an upside-down V... more » Ryan_Long: 30 Rock writers will have a field day with this one more » OCEntertainment: Net neutrality proponents: start. your. arguments! more » mattycakes: Somebody clue me in, is this good or bad? I've only heard through other people that Comcast is evil, and I've never seen 30 Rock (which is what the c... more » Sanfo: This technology is interesting, but its political effects scare me. Right now, portable ultrasound machines are used for sex-selective abortions in co... more » Rejexted: Why do they need such a device? Doesn't the need for that belly-jelly defeat the purpose of having a portable device? #gevscan more » kickingvegas: Tricorder. #gevscan more » 92BuickLeSabre: As noted in an earlier post, I still love my old Sony Quadraphonic system, but it only has the turntable, radio, and audio inputs...no 8 track. And (... more » goochillini: Love this review of the 8-Track GE Receiver. My dad still has his hooked up in his garage, with a working 8-Track player. On the downside he only has ... more » OMG! Ponies!: Sound does not come from literally every direction. As everyone knows, sound only comes from speakers. Marketing brochure FAIL! more » VivianaEmu: Unless I'm mistaken, Quadrophenia was actually never recorded in quadrophonic sound. Hence, why your dad's copy was in stereo. more » admoseremic: "Hey, how many songs can you hold on that holographic storage disk?" "All of them" more » bosskev: "Data drawn through chemical reactions floats [as] if suspended in gelatin."So, with this new storage technology, you'll get the most massive bang-for... more » thejackamo: So if the data is stored via chemical reactions, what does that do to data degradation over time? more » -
#television
Comcast Buying NBC From GE is a Done Deal
Comcast's acquisition of NBC from GE is a done deal reports David Faber on CNBC. All that needs to be done is paper work at this point. The deal should be announced Thursday morning, says Faber. More » -
#health
The GE Vscan Is Like a Having Ultrasound on a Cellphone
What features do you look for in a cellphone? Camera? GPS? 3G? Ultrasound? More » -
#homeaudio
Lightning Review: Panasonic Quadraphonic Turntable and GE 8-Track Receiver
The Gadgets: Panasonic's SL-850 quadraphonic turntable, featuring the unusual 4.0 discrete-channel format for stereo-besting sound. (As the brochure says, "In the real world, sound comes from literally every direction.") Plus, GE's 4-Channel Receiver, with a built-in 8-track cassette player. More » -
#storage
How Holographic Storage Works (Spoiler: It's a 3D CD)
GE just announced that they're fitting 500GB of data on discs the size of DVDs through "holographic storage" technologies. It's OK to be a bit lost. This clip explains the idea in more tactile terms. More » -
#storage
GE Makes Holographic Storage Breakthrough For Cheap(er) 500GB Discs
Sheinhardt WigsGE engineers have announced a breakthrough in the formerly retardedly-expensive field of holographic storage: by making the holograms smaller, they can squeeze 500GB on standard-sized optical discs. More » -
#retromodo
Retromodo: GE's Principles of Electricity Circa 1942
I seem to remember watching something like this on a projector in middle school...in the 90's. Damn my second rate education! More » -
#oledtannenbaum
GE Unrolls 15-Foot Flexible OLED Christmas Tree Scroll
Move over, Rockefeller Center: even though that's where Jack Donaghy calls home, his homeboys at GE's OLED research labs in Niskayuna upsate are gunning for Xmas tree fame with the first-ever flexible OLED tree. -
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#roundup
The Ultimate Cheap Camera Battlemodo
I have a confession to make: I've never owned a digital camera. I've played around plenty with friend's point-and-shoots, and I have picked up a DSLR on occasion too. But I never saw the point of paying $300 for something my iPhone could pretty much do well enough. Now that summer's coming up and the price of high-megapixel cameras is going down, though, I figure it might be time to pick one out for myself—on the cheap. Let someone else waste money, I want to know what's good at $150 and not a penny more. I'm gonna be picky: I only want a camera that can take shots that make me look like a photography genius while in truth I'm a photography dumbass, but still, the key is to keep the price down. I tried out five $150-and-under cameras, and here's what I found: More »
