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Laser Light TV?

Normal projection TVs are powered by reflective or transmissive technologies that use special high-powered light bulbs to “paint” the picture on the screen. Mitsubishi Electronics steps it up a notch and say that they have developed a rear projection TV that uses laser light to light up the screen. Mitsubishi says that the new technology…

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Water, Water (and TVs) Everywhere, and Not a Thought to Think: La Scala Bathtub with TV

Soak yourself until your fingertips are like prunes with this La Scala bathtub with a wide-screen TV and DVD player on board. Complete with a floating remote control, the tub is big enough for you and your honey, and offers 10 adjustable water jets to make you feel good all over while you’re getting your…

Television Charlie White

Home-Made Book Scanner

Who needs a $35,000 book scanner when you can just make one of your own with mostly household items? Most of this project was constructed with the help of an eraser and Legos. It uses the eraser to act as a grip for the page turner and an upside-down Epson scanner that is hooked up…

Books & Comics Travis Hudson

ATIZ BookDrive Automatic Book Scanner

ATIZ has developed an automatic book scanner that is of a somewhat-reasonable size. There are a couple other automatic book scanners out there but they are huge machines according to Art Sarasin, president of ATIZ. This machine uses a page-turning mechanism. It connects via USB 2.0 and all you do is designate how many pages…

Books & Comics Travis Hudson

Tuning Fork

A La Carte Cable By Brian L. Clark Let s face it, the Bush Administration is not known for acknowledging mistakes. So when the FCC did a sudden about face last week and endorsed the idea of a la carte cable, it was, well, shocking. A la carte cable has long been a pet issue…

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Mr. & Mrs. Rootkit

It seems that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are spreading the rootkit love with the German DVD release of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. This DVD uses a copy protection mechanism that is being described as using “rootkit-like cloaking technology.” The DVD uses Settec Alpha-DISC copy protection that manages to hide its processes, but it does…

Movies Travis Hudson

Tuning Fork

Legislating Television By Brian L. Clark February 17th, the day the first driver s ed class was offered in State College, PA; the day a little-known radio show called, Prairie Home Companion, went national; and the day in 2009 granny s rabbit ears become obsolete. Or so Congress says. Giant tech companies have long been…

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By the Numbers: ABCs Super Bowl XL Coverage

1,000,000,000 worldwide television audience 130,000,000 US viewers 70,000 fans at Ford Field in Detroit 720p HD standard of the broadcast 500 monitors in control trucks 400 crew people for production, technical, administrative and support 180 frames per second of Sony s new experimental super slo-mo camera 100x optical zoom of the longest Canon lens to…

Television Charlie White

Shower in Style

Here’s one more reason to never have to stop watching TV. The Aquavision line of LCD TVs is designed specifically for your bathroom and the flat panels can even go right into your shower stall with you if you’d like. The TV is, of course, waterproof and comes with a heated screen so it won’t…

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Forget Movie Tickets, Just Use Your Cellphone

A company called Mobile Box Office has launched a new service for WAP-enabled cell phone users in the US, allowing you to browse movie listing dates and times, select and pay for any movie, then use your phone as a ticket at the movie theater. So, after you pick your movie and buy your ticket…

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Sharp’s 57″ Aquos Is Killer

Sharp’s Aquos line of LCD televisions are always stunning, but now one stands out over all the others: The 57″ LC-57D90U Aquos. All the other high-end Aquos televisions have a 4-wavelength backlight system for enriching colors and making them more vivid. With the 57″ model, 5-wavelength backlighting is used to bring out greens even more.…

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Now For The (2nd) Biggest Plasma TV At CES

You want big? Allright cowboy, try this on for size: LG’s 102″ Plasma TV (just one inch smaller than Matsushita’s 103″ plasma set we showed you earlier). A television this big makes up in other departments for those who don’t have it all. Don’t expect to see this in Best Buy just yet though, as…

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Live from CES: Hannspree Batman LCD TV

For some reason an executive in the Hannspree booth was under the impression that Gizmodo hated his company’s products. Uh, hello? They make a TV that lives inside Batman. They pretty much win CES.

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High Def Movie Releases

Alright. So money doesn’t matter, you’ve gotta have the next new format whether it’s Blu-Ray or HD-DVD, and you can only pick one. How do you decide? Easy. The release titles. A list of available movies for both HD-DVD and Blu Ray have come out for when both formats launch. Action buffs will love titles…

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Toshiba Gets Down With The DLP

Toshiba had a huge focus on the future of television today at their press event at CES. One of the notable additions to their television lineup was their new DLP Projection TV. A new “scoop” design allows the size to trim down and it actually ends up being smaller than the 50″ LCD version Toshiba…

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Sanyo Comes Out Swinging With 2 LCD TVs

We don’t usually think of Sanyo as a TV manufacturer, but with flat panel TVs the hottest thing around these days, the company is coming out with two of its own this CES. Both are small, at 26-inches and 32-inches, and feature dual detachable speakers as well as removable bezels so if you’d like a…

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Starz Gets Their Downloading On

Starz, also known as the cheaper and Soprano-less HBO will be launching Vongo, an online movie downloading service. Stuff like this has the tendency to be a little to softwarey for our liking, but this seems like it has potential. Vongo charges a monthy $9.95 fee for its all-you-can-download service. It does require special viewing…

Movies Travis Hudson

Hannspree Does Some Groovy LCDs

We’ve shown you the child’s side of Hannspree with its Disney-inspired LCD models, but here’s something a little more sophisticated for the grownups. The Hanns Starlight is a 15-inch LCD TV that, strangely enough, is inspired by the contours of the moon in the starlit sky. I don’t know what the Hannspree team was smoking…

Television Tgrumet

The Speedray 3000 Car-Mounted Sat Dish

This doesn’t look too different from other top-mounted satellite dishes I’ve seen. And who uses these, exactly? Hardcore tailgate party people? Private security outfits working in Iraq? Whoever you are, Raysat has unveiled the Speedray 3000 portable satellite solution. Portable is a fungible term here, as this dish weighs in at 64 pounds. Once your…

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Make A Cell Phone Movie, Win $5000

Assuming that you attend an accredited high school or college, the CellFlix Festival may be just what you were looking for. The premise is simple: shoot a movie with your camera phone, edit it any way you like, submit it to the festival, win $5000 (if it s really good). All it takes is 30…

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Laser Light TV?

Water, Water (and TVs) Everywhere, and Not a Thought to Think: La Scala Bathtub with TV

Home-Made Book Scanner

ATIZ BookDrive Automatic Book Scanner

Tuning Fork

Mr. & Mrs. Rootkit

Tuning Fork

By the Numbers: ABCs Super Bowl XL Coverage

Shower in Style

Forget Movie Tickets, Just Use Your Cellphone

Sharp’s 57″ Aquos Is Killer

Now For The (2nd) Biggest Plasma TV At CES

Live from CES: Hannspree Batman LCD TV

High Def Movie Releases

Toshiba Gets Down With The DLP

Sanyo Comes Out Swinging With 2 LCD TVs

Starz Gets Their Downloading On

Hannspree Does Some Groovy LCDs

The Speedray 3000 Car-Mounted Sat Dish

Make A Cell Phone Movie, Win $5000

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