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LG Chocolate's Screen Secret Revealed: Cinema Ratio Widescreen

LG has been teasing an update for it's Chocolate smartphones with glossy teaser shots. But that wasn't enough for one Web site, which uncovered its secret: The screen.According to Tweakers.net it's not going to be run of the mill at ...READ»

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Many Unhappy Returns

I heard a startling stat on the radio yesterday: Half of the consumer-electronics products returned to stores function properly, according to a recent study, but customers simply can't figure out to operate them. Yes, half. As part ...READ»

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Sony Drops Price of Blu-ray Player

According to HD Guru, Sony [NYSE:SNE] is planning to drop the price of its BDP-S350 Blu-ray player. Right now it sells for about $400, and they're cutting that by a quarter, which I believe makes it... purple. Or $300. That price ...READ»

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Philips Unveils First Mainstream LED Light

When a major player like Philips Electronics invests heavily in something, you know it has hit the big time. The world's number one lightbulb maker launched its first mainstream LED product last week--a down bulb for recessed ...READ»

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Li Edelkoort: Famous Trendspotter

Whether it's our impending obsession with veils and turbans or our "global quest for decadence," Li Edelkoort knows what's coming. She is the oracle behind Trend Union, the go-to source for trend forecasting for the fashion, beauty, retail, automotive, consumer-electronics, and interior-design industries. And you might not believe what she sees on the horizon. READ»

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Simply the Best: Maeda’s the Man at RISD

John Maeda, MIT Media Lab guru, artist, designer, computer scientist, author – in short, a guy who comes about as close as it gets to being a Renaissance Man, circa 2007 --- was just named the new president of the Rhode Island ...READ»

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Wireless Electricity Is Here (Seriously)

I'm standing next to a Croatian-born American genius in a half-empty office in Watertown, Massachusetts, and I'm about to be fried to a crisp. Or I'm about to witness the greatest advance in electrical science in a hundred years. ...READ»

The Happiness Factor

Today's most successful brands promise to help in our pursuit of happiness. But too often, marketers fail to understand what brings us joy.READ»

Design Intervention

At Philips, a place long known for big ideas and small numbers, can there be too much of a good thing?READ»

The Beauty of Simplicity

Marissa Mayer, who keeps Google's home page pure, understands that less is more. Other tech companies are starting to get it, too. Here's why making things simple is the new competitive advantage.READ»

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Extreme Callers

Planet 1, a new personal satellite communications lets users make calls, receive faxes, and check email anywhere in the world, without requiring access to the local phone system.READ»

Can Philips Learn to Walk the Talk?

Gerard Kleisterlee's turnaround program for Royal Philips Electronics is a high-stakes bet on a simple, catalytic idea: strategic conversations.READ»

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Digital Thinking at Rhode Island School of Design

John Maeda is a highly networked, Web-enabled thinker who also happens to be an artist, designer, and author -- probably the closest thing to a Renaissance man the digital world has produced. As the new president of the Rhode Island School of Design, can he help reconcile the design world's competing impulses: creativity and pragmatism, uniqueness and marketability?READ»

Can C.K. Prahalad Pass the Test?

One of the business world's most influential professors and consultants has invested millions of dollars of his own money to put himself to the test. Can he build a company around the principles that he has been teaching other high-powered leaders? And can he possibly change the world in the process?READ»

Net Home

Your home office has grown to include a small arsenal of computing power, printers, and peripherals. But all that firepower just goes to waste if you can't get all of those pieces to work together. Here's everything you need to know to get networked.READ»

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Microsoft Building One-Mile Wi-Fi

Despite protestations from the Bush administration, the FCC succeeded last year in making a certain chunk of the nation's TV and radio spectrum--dubbed "white space"--available to unlicensed broadcasters. That meant that companies ...READ»

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Virtuality Jacket Adds Emotional Vibes To Your Movie Experience

Ah virtual reality--it never seems to go out of fashion. And now electronics giant Philips weighs in with its prototype "enhanced reality" clothing--a jacket jam-packed with haptic feedback devices that's designed to ...READ»

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Gadgets You Can Swallow

The ingestible electronic drug-delivery systemREAD»