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Toshiba Debuts First Glasses-Free 3-D HDTV for Consumers

Toshiba's just unveiled a range of glasses-free HDTVs, which it's saying are the first units of their type to be aimed at the consumer. Will Jo Public leap at the chance to watch 3-D movies without specs?READ»

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Why Don't We Care About 3-D TV?

Sales of these high-tech TVs are sluggish, according to Best Buy -- and the big box giant is pointing the finger of blame at electronics marketers.READ»

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Yahoo's Three-Year Plan to "Bring Cool Back"

Yahoo's new set of goals hit all the company's beats: A revamped Yahoo Mail, an iPad app, connected TV, better search, and more social networking. READ»

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Dual-Screen Tablet Kno: A Digital Textbook Powered by $46 Million

"While no one was looking, someone revolutionized the textbook," says Kno about its twin-screened tablet PC. Is this just misplaced overconfidence? Deep pocketed VC backers think not. READ»

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3-D TV Gets Touchy UI, but Brits Not Interested in 3-D Tech at All

A new survey seems bad news for the burgeoning 3-D industry--only 2% of British consumers want to buy a 3-D TV. Will a Japanese invention of a "touchable" 3-D user interface help the technology's appeal?READ»

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Toshiba Solves the Awkward 3-D Glasses Problem

Toshiba's new technology could end the awkwardness of watching 3-D television.READ»

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Mind Games: Will NeuroSky Power the Thought-Controlled Consoles of Tomorrow?

NeuroSky, as well as having a slightly ominious sci-fi-ish name, has just succeeded in raising nearly $12 million in funding to develop its business. What's its business? Also very cool and sci-fi-ish: Brain sensors for ...READ»

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Toshiba's Trio of New Laptops Includes a Dual-Screen, Windows 7 Oddball

Toshiba's Libretto W100 is one of the oddest computers in recent memory: two 7-inch touchscreens that can operate either independently or together. It's certainly unusual, but is it enticing? It's one of three oddball laptops introduced today.READ»

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Bill Gates-Backed Nuclear Power Startup, TerraPower, Gets $35 Million

Nuclear power, that oft-maligned source of clean energy, got a boost earlier this year when TerraPower announced plans to team up with Toshiba to build a hot tub-sized traveling-wave nuclear reactor. Now TerraPower is moving even ...READ»

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Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics: Nokia Keeps Its Top Spot, Toshiba's Rank Drops

Greenpeace has released its quarterly edition of their Guide to Greener Electronics, with some dramatic shifts in their ratings of electronics manufacturers. The guide keeps Nokia in the top spot, and Nintendo remains in last place.READ»

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Tallahassee Honda Dealer Announces 100 Day Celebration Sale

Tallahassee Honda dealer, Proctor Honda, announces 100 days of celebration and 100 days of savings and giveaways. The sale event honors the Proctor Dealerships’ one hundredth year in business.READ»

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Tallahassee Acura Dealer Announces 100 Day Celebration Sale

Tallahassee Acura dealer, Proctor Acura, announces 100 days of celebration and 100 days of savings and giveaways. The sale event honors the Proctor Dealerships’ one hundredth year in business.READ»

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Tallahassee Acura Dealer Announces 100 Day Celebration Sale

Tallahassee Acura dealer, Proctor Acura, announces 100 days of celebration and 100 days of savings and giveaways. The sale event honors the Proctor Dealerships’ one hundredth year in business.READ»

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Google, Verizon Tablet to Rival Apple’s iPad

Verizon announced Tuesday that it’s working with Google to develop a tablet device to directly compete with Apple’s runaway success, the iPad. Verizon’s tablet will run on Google’s Android operating system and likely...READ»

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Google, Verizon Tablet to Rival Apple’s iPad

Verizon announced Tuesday that it’s working with Google to develop a tablet device to directly compete with Apple’s runaway success, the iPad. Verizon’s tablet will run on Google’s Android operating system and likely...READ»

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GE Brings LEDs Closer to the Mainstream With 40-Watt Household Bulb

LEDs are slowly creeping into the mainstream despite their high price tags. Lemnis Lighting recently unveiled the first household dimmable LED bulb, Digital Lumens offered up its system of networked LED lights, and companies like ...READ»

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iPad's Sales Figures Better Than iPhone's

Apple has just sent out its sales figures for the iPad's debut on Saturday, and the company is claiming *rips envelope open* 300,000 units were sold on Saturday alone. Not bad: The pre-sale feeding frenzy made one analyst revise his ...READ»

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Coming Soon: Portable Poop-Powered Nuclear Reactors?

DARPA is our favorite source for off-the-wall yet compelling technology. We've seen proposals for flying cars, handheld nuclear fusion devices, and now poop-powered nuclear reactors. It's not as crazy at seems.Wired explains that ...READ»

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3D TV Virtual Worlds

How much do you know about new “virtual worlds and 3D TV” technology developments? Maybe, you thought they were just a lot of online video game hype for kids but look deeper into today’s virtual world platforms like Second Life ...READ»

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Bill Gates Goes Nuclear With Toshiba's 4S Reactor

Bill Gates is going atomic. The Microsoft founder's startup TerraPower is partnering with Toshiba to build a traveling-wave reactor. These reactors run on depleted uranium, rather than the enriched sort found in light-water reactors, ...READ»

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Toshiba Snuffs Out Old Light Bulb Production, Embraces the Shiny LED Future

Toshiba hauled the gate shut for the final time on its incandescent light bulb factory today--ending a production run that dates back to 1890. The reason? The eco-unfriendly, inefficient, thermo-luminescent tech has had its day. ...READ»

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Bow to Your Robot Overlor... Er, We Mean, Check Out This Butler and Housemaid of Tomorrow!

We've joked about the robocalypse a lot, but robot tech really is developing at one hell of a clip. And you may be rubbing, um, shoulders with robo-house assistants sooner than you think, as two recent developments from France and ...READ»

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Walmart Jumps Into Streaming Video With Vudu Purchase

The New York Times is reporting that Walmart has agreed to buy Vudu, a streaming movie rental service. Despite its status as one of the biggest DVD and Blu-ray retailers in the country, Walmart has yet to make any moves into online ...READ»

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Booth deisgn China Stand contractor,Exhibition service

Achieving results for our client's display marketing investment is our passion. Since 2001 YOHOEXPO has been a unique player in the exhibit industry. Our focus, organizational structure, and size consistently enable us to exceed our ...READ»

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Apple Tablet Set To WOW Consumer Retail Tech Sectors

Insider contacts have confirmed the new Apple Tablet set for release by mid-2010 likely won’t encompass a 3D interface. Although, there’s been enough background murmurings about the method users will employ to ...READ»