In a recent article, ExtremeTech and Dr Raymond Soneira hold forth that LCoS is the best HDTV imaging technology available today, and that the JVC Professional model DLA-HRM1 is the best LCoS TV out there. And so by extension, the JVC Pro must also be the world’s best HDTV set.
Ray evaluated the 7 main display [...]

Talk of time travel is back, and, for good this time … perhaps. The eminently qualified Michio Kaku surveys the paradox-fraught field of temporal excursions in a new article entitled “The Physics of Time Travel - Real or Fable?” just published in Quantum Biocommunication.
Kaku states that time travel is at least theoretically [...]

Mitsubishi has announced a new DLP TV with a wider color gamut and a simpler DLP engine. This new design replaces the lamp and color wheel filter found in older DLP systems with three pipelined laser diodes.
Implementation of the RGB semiconductor lasers makes for purer colors, avoids bulb burnout, allows for a more compact cabinet [...]

The art and science of selecting an attorney to defend yourself in court can be as problematic as selecting a student for your Law school. Those in need of legal services and those who operate Law schools face many of the same challenges, such as predicting success in the profession and in identifying those [...]

Interesting news - we seem to have the beginnings of a codified simian philosophy or system of thought. New Scientist has inferred, perhaps inadvertently, the transparently simple ethical strictures to which our closest cousins seem to adhere, viz: 1. Live fast, and 2. Breed young.
In an article ostensibly topic’ed on the comparative speed [...]

Here’s a striking view (top) of the surreal Ixtapaluca housing complex in Mexico City taken by helicopter pilot Oscar Ruiz.

Also, an overhead view (bottom) of just part of one of the many neighborhoods in the world’s second largest city.
Distrito Federal desde el Aire - a collection of 85 aerial views [...]

If you never got the opp to run an entire Information Technology department, here’s your chance to just that … well in simulation anyway. Thanks to Intel, you can now virtually manage people, allocate resources, and pursue strategic analysis and planning. Looks interesting, might be amusing for a few hours, and depending on how well [...]

Apple just announced a new 1GB version of the iPod nano, making for 3 nano models all together - at capacities of 1 2 and 4GB. Priced at $149 , $199 and $249 respectively.
The halfGB and 1GB Shuffle models are repriced to $69 and $99. They must be getting ready to intro new models. [...]

CNet has published a revised list of the amount of radiation output from cell phones. The author of the article is quick to point out that there is no definitive proof yet that cell phone radiation cause any health problems.
The Motorola V265 has the dubious distinction of being the phone with the highest SAR [...]

Nice-looking pre-concept 2-seater car thx to designer Marc Mainville of the Hyundai Kia America Design Center.
The Sidewinder has a more than interesting power plant: the compressed natural gas turbine engine provides power to high-torque in-wheel electric motors.
Built for drifting competitions.
Kia Sidewinder Hits L.A. - Kia News Release, 11 December 2005