| Today's Top Stories | | #1 | Don't buy what Neil Young is selling | | | By Mario Aguilar, Gizmodo | | | Neil Young's "high resolution" PonoPlayer goes on sale for $400 today. You shouldn't buy it. The recalcitrant rocker isn't wrong for wanting to reclaim audio quality in the digital age, but in the service of that goal he's peddling junk science, and supporting expensive gear and music files you don't need. More»
Why This Matters: Junk science is stuff people want to be true. For more, here are Neil Young's own engineers expressing their doubts about the market. –Cynthia Wisehart |
| | #2 | Sony Symphonic Light speaker: combines a lamp and a speaker | | | By Dieter Bonn, The Verge | | | Sony pulled out a small, clever surprise at its CES 2015 keynote. It's called a "Symphonic Light speaker," and it does pretty much what you'd expect it to. It's a tower-shaped lamp with a speaker at the base, and it actually looks really well-designed. More»
Why This Matters: The light bulb glass is the tweeter. –Cynthia Wisehart |
| | #3 | Chevy's insane power wall display has more pixels than an Imax theater | | | Via iol Motoring | | | They call it the PowerWall - a 22 square metre solid glass screen with two Christie Mirage 4K25 DLP 3D projectors, powered by eight computers and two Christie Spyder X20 video processors. Its display has more pixels than an Imax theatre and it takes a crew of five - three visualisation specialist, an IT technician and a Christie hardware engineer - to run it. More»
Why This Matters: It's a fascinating way to do design, and something we will no doubt see more of given how much more efficient and cost effective it is compared to physical prototyping. –Cynthia Wisehart |
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