An Australian researcher from the University of Melbourne’s Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering has come up with an idea to make broadband up to 100 times faster without multi-billion dollar investments in cabling infrastructure.
Dr John Papandriopoulos said his technique can dramatically reduce the interference which slows down data transmission in typical DSL networks and use less power in the process. Read more »
Gigantic TVs designed to go in your living room aren’t the only HDTVs out there, and not everyone wants a 60-inch television. People put TVs in their bedrooms and kitchens as well as their living rooms, and those people might still want to enjoy HDTV without going nuts on a behemoth. Well, Sharp is here for you.
Its releasing a 22-inch 1080p HDTV, the smallest full-HD set yet. It also has siblings that come in at 26-inches and 32-inches, in case you want something a little bigger. Unfortunately, with prices that will run $1,540, $1,700, and $2,050, respectively, you’d might as well take your money and go ahead and put a big screen in your bedroom, ’cause it’ll cost you about the same.
At the Flat Panel Display (FPD) International show this week, Samsung is announcing a host of new LCD displays.
The most important announcement, in my eyes, is 40″ HD LCD TV that’s just 10mm thick. While the exact model number is unknown, Samsung claims the LED backlit TV will be able to reproduce 92 percent of the NTSC standard for color saturation, and will consume under 90 watts of power. I figure hanging one of these things up on the wall would look more like a window than a TV. There’s no word on pricing yet, or when it will be available in the United States, but the sheer thinness of it really has me drooling.
While we’re all still waiting for the day when OLED TVs reach 40 inches and more affordable prices, Samsung will also be demonstrating a 14.1 active-matrix OLED screen. Sadly, there isn’t additional information about whether it’s just a prototype panel or a full blown television, like the Sony XEL-1.
Watching high-definition television does not always require a special converter box or hefty monthly fees from the cable company.
The new PCTV HD Ultimate Stick from Pinnacle Systems may look like an oversize U.S.B. drive, but it
Australia: A man in his seventies has died after being struck by an express train after his dog reportedly panicked and pulled him onto the tracks. The dog is alive and in the custody of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Ambulance officers attended the accident but could not revive the man. Ray Rowe, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Ambulance Service, said they had no indications that it was a suicide.
“It is believed the man and his dog were waiting at the pedestrian crossing on Mitcham Rd when the dog became spooked by the passing train,” said Allison Noonan, a police spokesperson. Read more »
On the back of disappointing box-box office figures for ‘The Brave One’, starring Jodie Foster, and ‘The Invasion’, starring Nicole Kidman, Warner Brothers Pictures has reportedly decided not to make any more movies with female leads.
The story was broken by the LA Weekly newspaper which quoted three different Warner Bros. producers. The move has outraged women’s rights activists with attorney Gloria Allred calling it an insult to women and an insult to moviegoers.
“Instead of taking responsibility for their own lack of judgment about which scripts to make, directors to hire and budgets to OK, some men in the movie industry find it easier to place blame for their lack of success on women leads…” said Allred. Read more »
China has confirmed a sighting of an endangered species of tiger that hasn’t been spotted in 20 years. The International Natural Conservation Alliance listed the South China Tiger, or Penthern tiger, in 1996 among 10 highly endangered species.
Farmers who live in Northwest China’s Qinling Mountains, located in Shaanxi Province, spawned an investigation after some tigers by their village were spotted. China is the only habitat for the animal, where only 68 remain in zoos there.
A plethora of evidence was gathered on October 3rd, according to deputy director of Shaanxi Wild Animal Management Station Lu Xirong. It included photos, paw and teeth marks, paw prints left on the trunks of trees, and hair and feces. Read more »
Police have arrested a Japanese man who ran a suicide website on the Internet for killing a woman who paid him to do it. She contacted him through the website, and paid him $1,700 (U.S) to kill her. She was given sleeping pills and suffocated.
Her body was found April 16 in a city south of Tokyo. Police found a suicide note, but her car keys and cell phone came up missing. The man, Kanuzari Saito, has been charged with violating narcotic and psychotropic drug control laws.
Saito was arrested in July for selling sleeping pills to 10 people through his website. One has died and police are investigating. Japan has the highest suicide rate in the industrialized world, topping over 30,000 in 2006. Read more »
Parents of kids who watched two other students engage in sex in class are outraged and are demanding more supervision, since the incident occurred when the teacher stepped out of class. They are also angry that it took over a week to hear about it.
A parent of one Crockett Middle School student said, “I would expect the parent to at least have a call from the principal if not the day at least the next morning. I don’t believe there’s any excuse why that wouldn’t happen.”
The students involved have been disciplined, the school said in a letter to parents Friday, and said they have had campus and district counselors talk to the students who witnessed the incident, and will be available for them in the future. Read more »
An attorney representing Britney Spears said that she will abide by a judge’s order to turn herself in for a hit-and-run incident that occurred in Studio City in August with Kim Robard-Rifkin, a nurse in California.
Her attorney, Michael J. Flanagan, said “The judge ordered today in court that Britney must go to any L.A. police station for fingerprints and mug shots before Oct. 25. She will do that, but I don’t know when.”
“Britney wants to make sure she is compensated for any damages [she] may have and would like to figure out what those damages are,” he added. The order was handed down Tuesday by LA County Commissioner Rebecca Omens. Read more »
