What is television but the deft arrangement of red, green, and blue? At a late January event sponsored by Sony, British artist Paul Cocksedge made the point that no matter how fancy and feature-filled the TV set, red, green, and blue lights remain encoded in its DNA. His installation at the Tramshed gallery in London juxtaposed a simulation of the basic elements of a TV pixel—in the form of colored spotlights converging on a single white spot—with some advanced new Sony sets, including one with an organic LED screen and another as thin as a CD case.
Electronically Assisted Astronomy on the Cheap
Take surprisingly detailed images of the heavens with budget hardware
28 Apr 2024
Will Human Soldiers Ever Trust Their Robot Comrades?
The Pentagon’s “trust engineers” are probing warfighters’ attitudes
27 Apr 2024
As Ukraine Builds New Reactors, Renewables Beckon
Wind turbines and gas-fired generators are easy to build and hard to target
26 Apr 2024
Travels with Perplexity AI
Generative search wouldn’t exist without the Internet Bob Kahn helped create
26 Apr 2024
This IEEE Society’s Secret to Boosting Student Membership
The budding engineers serve on its boards and have voting privileges
25 Apr 2024
Why Haven’t Hoverbikes Taken Off?
Physics aside, personal flying craft's rotors pose huge safety risks
25 Apr 2024
Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help
This startup is reinventing the process of demining
25 Apr 2024
Llama 3 Establishes Meta as the Leader in “Open” AI
Meta’s new AI model was trained on seven times as much data as its predecessor
25 Apr 2024
Why One Man Spent 12 Years Fighting Robocalls
David Frankel’s quixotic quest to stop automated spam calls
24 Apr 2024
IEEE Spectrum
FOR THE TECHNOLOGY INSIDER
Topics
More
For IEEE Members
For IEEE Members
Support IEEE Spectrum
IEEE Spectrum is the flagship publication of the IEEE — the world’s largest professional organization devoted to engineering and applied sciences. Our articles, podcasts, and infographics inform our readers about developments in technology, engineering, and science.
Support IEEE Spectrum
IEEE Spectrum is the flagship publication of the IEEE — the world’s largest professional organization devoted to engineering and applied sciences. Our articles, podcasts, and infographics inform our readers about developments in technology, engineering, and science.