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Slideshow: Making the Ghosts Live
Check out how our cover goes from initial idea to final design
Animation: Mike Spector
New Quantum Dots Make Colors in LCD Even Brighter
Doping of quantum dots promises LCDs comparable to OLED displays for color brightness
Taser Cam Puts Policing in the Spotlight
Taser's new head-mounted camera for police officers offers both promise and peril
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Glasses-Free 3-D From Almost Any Angle
Grid of gratings could create 3-D displays for smartphones and other small devices
Kinect Fusion Lets You Build 3-D Models of Anything
The new API will make it easy to generate 3-D models with a handheld Kinect
Put Away Those 3-D Glasses If You’re Watching The Super Bowl
Today’s Super Bowl will not be televised in 3D
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Bang & Olufsen’s Geoff Martin Pursues the Perfect Sound
At Bang & Olufsen, Geoff Martin brings a musician’s sensibilities and an engineer’s precision to loudspeaker design
CES 2013: Making a Case for 4K TV
Manufacturers hope “pull-you-in” immersion will draw consumers.
NHK’s Hybridcast Promises Sophisticated Interactive TV
Broadcaster aims to create a “virtual big living room”
CES 2013: A Tale of Two Television Strategies
Panasonic puts "smarts" front and center, while LG wants to overwhelm you with pixels
CES 2013: TV Manufacturers Don't Agree on the Next Big Thing
The future of TV may be OLED, or 4K LCD, or something altogether different
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OLED TV Arrives
New displays will be big, bright, fast, and thin—but not cheap
TV’s Future: The Broadcast Empire Strikes Back
New digital technologies could put over-the-air TV back in vogue
How RCA Lost the LCD
RCA owned the early patents but failed to commercialize the liquid crystal display
Sports: 3-D TV’s Toughest Challenge
Here’s why live sports, the most popular 3-D shows, are the hardest to produce
UltraHD, the TV Technology Formerly Known as 4K, Gets Ready To Hit Store Shelves
The really high resolution, for really big TVs, gets a new name.
Digits: Hands-Free 3-D
Microsoft's new gadget Digits eliminates gloves from 3-D motion capture with a wrist-worn sensor
Microsoft's KinEtre Animates Household Objects
New Kinect technique lets your body control virtual versions of anything
Quantum Dots Are Behind New Displays
They make LCDs brighter and could challenge OLEDs for future TV dominance
LCD Pioneers Honored with Draper Prize
The National Academy of Engineering presents its top honor to inventors of the liquid crystal display
CES 2012: A Week at CES in Tweets
Last week I walked, looked, walked, listened, walked, talked, and tweeted CES. Here's what I had to say.
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