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We want to finish 2007 in a really positive note. It has been a year of black predictions for the environment but new forward looking people and technologies are promising to reverse that trend. The Tindo is such a wonderful project. It marries two clean technologies:

Electric motors driven by 11 onboard batteries.

Photovoltaic panels at the [...]

Now that 2008 is only a couple of days away is the right time to write about the developments I would like to see. I am not in favour of votes for the best of each category of 2007. We have all bought and used stuff this last year, we have also already done our [...]

As if the LCD alliance news of Hitachi, Canon & Matsushita wasn’t enough, now Samsung comes up with more dynamite news. It announced that it has a fully functioning 31-inch OLED display, larger than the 27-inch OLED that Sony has previously shown. OLED displays are an upcoming technology that has the following advantages over LCDs:

Extremely thin. The [...]

Welcome news! Warner Music MP3 files are now available for download from Amazon. Price is 89 cents per song compared to the 99 cents for every DRM-protected song from Apple’s iTunes. Amazon has a standard non-DRM policy for all its music downloads which means that you can enjoy on any platform as you wish. Bravo [...]

Hitachi, Canon and Matsushita are teaming up on the LCD display front. Each of Canon and Matsushita are buying 24.9% of Hitachi Displays Co Ltd, while Hitachi will keep the remaining 50.2%. Global demand for LCD displays might be increasing, LCD TVs and PC monitors might be selling like hot cakes, but increased competition and low profit margins are forcing [...]

Only yesterday we wrote about internet TV and how large players with power in the marketplace will certainly try to get in the TV and movie business in a big way. Reuters reports that Apple and Twentieth Century Fox will announce such a deal that will let consumers rent Fox’s movies via Apple’s iTunes online store. It [...]

The Nissan GT-R is a dream car, with a character distinguishing it completely from Italian and German exotica. Unfortunately, modern electronics come to spoil completely driving satisfaction limit the car’s top speed to a sad 180 km/h (111 mph) in Japan and 250 km/h (156 mph) in the US -and I suspect in Europe. The [...]

Russia’s GLONASS is a little bit like a mirror of the country’s state. GLONASS was planned in the 70s as a military system to compete with the American GPS. The disintegration of the all powerful Soviet Union and the following lack of money and neglect in Russia in the 90s led to a system operating [...]

Rear-projection TVs were major show off tools back in the days of CRT TVs. They could offer large sizes at affordable cost. Personally I never liked their picture quality so never went anywhere near them and do not feel much sorrow now that Sony has decided to pull the plug in all related production sites. [...]

Saving energy is preferable to producing more of it, even if it is 100% green. Politicians have recently got the message and earlier this year EU leaders decided to follow Australia’s lead and stop the sale of incandescent light bulbs by 2010. Now the new US energy bill makes a similar move and 2012 will [...]

I watch very little conventional TV, not because I dislike some of its programs, but because I have zero control over what I watch and when I watch it. Standard definition channels are not that great either, certainly not good enough to keep me away from streaming video sites and free downloadable programs. So is [...]

This post is a direct result of recent rumours in several blogs that state that Intel’s Penryn chips might appear later in the market than originally projected because AMD currently has a very weak product line and is not a threat even for Intel’s current CPU models! Of course Intel has the last word in this, but even the rumour is [...]

Since Canon released its first EOS DSLR the D30 in 2000 it has now shipped the significant number of 10 million digital reflex cameras! The EOS line first appeared in the market in 1987 and total sales up to now are 30 million cameras. This is no surprise as Canon together with Nikon completely dominate [...]