| New gadgets ridding homes of cluttering wires
The stereo speaker should go in that corner. But that would mean buying yet more wiring, running it along the floor and, perhaps, repositioning the stereo altogether so as to not run cords past, or over, a doorway.There are solutions.You love your big-screen TV and you love Internet videos. You'd like to see the Web videos on the TV and you'd rather not see wires coming into the set. Solutions are here and more are coming.The issues of wiring are being answered -- currently or in the foreseeable future -- as companies roll out wireless gadgetry. This month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was a feast of new wireless products. Coupled with the existing products, it amounts to a full-scale movement away from the wads of wiring in the common household.The less-wire movementWhat follows is some of the basics -- emphasis on some.It gives an idea of how telephones, computers, televisions, music, transfer of photo images and so forth are being achieved with minimal wiring -- emphasis on minimal.Going "wireless" actually means going with less wire.
F-STOP: How Digital Eclipsed the Film Camera
It's been a remarkable run. Daguerre developed his device for capturing images nearly 170 years ago, and since that time, and especially since erstwhile bank clerk George Eastman gave up his steady salary to form the Eastman Kodak company in 1888, the camera had almost come to symbolise personal technology, a bit of science that most could use consistently. This became particularly true with the introduction, in the early 1930s, of the 35mm single reflex camera - the closest ancestor of the hand-held cameras of today - and also with the introduction, in 1948, of the instant picture, or Polaroid camera. .
Hip-Hop Rumors: Angel Lola Luv’s Implants EXPOSED! Jim Jones Vs. Max ...
Diddy wants another assistant and he is using the internet to find his candidate – kinda. I don't know what happened to the first round of youtube boobs, but he is at it again. Stay tuned for the rumor below. First, peep the site WorkForPdiddy.com (is he going back to P.Diddy?). Also, click here for further details.
Here is the rumor. I heard that Diddy is going to be taping at all this open calls and it is all going to be turned in to a television series like American Idol or something. I don't think I can hold an umbrella long enough to be Diddy's assistant.
CHUCK D ADDRESSES THE DEF JAM RUMORS
There have been Def Jam rumors swirling around for some time as to who will replace Jay-Z as the president of the label.
Mother establishing moving memorial for Marine son, others
Brian Barker, of B.K. Artworks, puts the finishing touches to the portrait on the hood of a 1992 Mustang GT. The painting portrays the car's owner, Sgt. R.J. Jimenez, who was killed in battle in Iraq in 2004. His mother is having the car restored as a memorial to him and the other Marines who died in Iraq. .
Huge televisions, green talk among the highlights at CES
The sensory-overloaded whirlwind that is the annual Consumer Electronics Show supplied an array of bright lights, big crowds, Hollywood celebrities and, of course, thousands of innovative and zany gadgets. Gathering 140,000 people across 1.8 million square feet in Las Vegas, CES draws to a close today. This year, the largest conference of the technology industry was punctuated by the ending of an era as Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates gave his 11th and final CES keynote speech and ushered in what he called the next digital decade, as technology becomes more user-friendly, personal and ubiquitous. No iPhone-level announcements were made at the 2008 CES, but the industry demonstrated that it is marching forward on a number of fronts, from adopting environmentally friendly practices to extending technology to the car.
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