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...didn't get your fill of gadgets and gizmos over the holidays, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held last week in Las Vegas, was the place to be. There's always a contest over who has the largest plasma TV. This time around, Samsung has a 102-in. set but no plans to sell it in the U.S.; LG will sell its 71-incher for $75,000. There are also always plenty of exciting trends. Here are four of the most intriguing...
...technologies usually receive the CES crowd's most opinionated harrumphs, and this year the SED flat-panel technology developed by Toshiba and Canon was at the center of scrutiny. Billed as the technology that could bring down plasma, SED takes the idea of conventional cathode-ray-tube televisions and miniaturizes it: instead of one big electron gun exciting all the phosphors on a screen in sequence, millions of little electrical nodes do the same thing simultaneously. The result is picture contrast and response time that outstrip plasma and LCD with a much lower power drain. Toshiba says that production costs...
Just two weeks ago, CES hosted a career panel where three Harvard alums who spoke about their experiences studying and working in Europe. Craig attributed the CES’s increased efforts at organizing such European-oriented events to Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s advocacy for providing students with international experiences...
Craig said CES and the board will evaluate the turnout of the event and will decide to host similar events in the future if response is positive...
...CES also organizes events for undergraduates to advise them on how to choose their theses related to European studies, as well as funding students to study and work in Europe over the summer. Currently, CES is funding trips to Europe for 22 undergraduates for thesis research, 8 others to travel as interns and 15 graduate students for dissertation research...