TVs are to CES as Ford cars were to the mid-century World’s Fair – it’s hard to imagine the exhibition without them. But as the New York Times points out today, TV-makers are getting a little worried that nobody will buy their flashy new models, since nearly everyone has a perfectly functional TV already, and […]
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On this day in 1989, the first episode of television series The Simpsons, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”, aired in the United States. The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its
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NY Daily News: UBC-TV, for Urban Broadcasting Co., is guided by CEO and President Peggy Dodson, a former jazz singer who has run a self-empowerment company for more than a decade. Dodson says she has spent the past eight years getting the financing, assembling the support and launching the actual programming that UBC will make
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Are you an expert at hiring the perfect employee? Do you want to me on television? A major cable TV network and Stone & Co. Entertainment are looking for the perfect industry leading professional to star in a new television pilot set in the high stakes world of business. The project will focus on the
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The Week: THE X PRIZE foundation, a non-profit foundation promoting technology, has offered a $10m prize to anyone who can make Star Trek’s medical “tricorder” diagnostic machine a reality. The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize was announced in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show. The X Prize Foundation’s Chairman Peter Diamandis said: “I’m probably the
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It’s not everyday an inventor receives a small feature on television, but we can add the inventor of modern skiing to the list, reports DCist. In 1954, Head was awarded a patent for his design that pressed a plywood core inside two aluminum sheets which were then covered by a shell of laminated plastic. The
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The News Star: Wiley Ezell loved umpiring high school baseball in northeastern Louisiana, but after he passed out from the heat on a particularly stifling day, the former Jackson Parish insurance agent was determined to find some relief. Ezell couldn’t find an existing product that suited his needs, so he invented one, the Cool Neck,
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Pet Product News: The pet product idea casting call, which ends April 23, will be for the show’s fifth season. Inventors can still submit pet product ideas until April 30, when the season’s open casting call ends. Ideas are submitted online. The show’s premise is to help inventors develop their product ideas into finished products
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SFGate: At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas opening today, LG and Lenovo will show TVs that allow users to search for shows and Web applications with natural-sounding voice commands. Samsung introduced three high-end models with so- called Smart Interaction technology, which builds in motion- sensing and voice-command software similar to Microsoft Corp.’s Kinect
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She may have won on Kelly Ripa’s cable TV show, “Homemade Millionaire,” but Karen McCombs is not a millionaire… yet, reports lohud.com. What Ripa’s show — in which regular folks presented their inventions to a panel of experts and competed for a pitch spot on HSN — gave to McCombs was not a million dollars,
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