| Today's Top Stories | | #1 | Music Group buys TC Group | | | Via Installation | | | Music Group ended months of speculation today when it announced the acquisition of TC Group. The audio company that owns Tannoy and Lab Gruppen has been up for sale for some time and will now join brands such as Midas, Klark Teknik, Turbosound and Behringer under the Music Group umbrella. More»
Why This Matters: Wow, suddenly I own a bunch of Music Group gear (my beautiful cherry Tannoy towers…) -Cynthia Wisehart |
| | #2 | This startup turns smartphones into microphones at events and big meetings | | | By Taylor Soper, Geek Wire | | | Sean and Tim Holladay are the young co-founders of CrowdMics, a two-year-old startup that lets audience members at big events and meetings use their smartphones as wireless microphones. More»
Why This Matters: Using existing Wifi, you apparently just touch your phone to make it play through the PAs. Looks clever. -Cynthia Wisehart |
| | #3 | Science Geek: World's first light activated, molecule-sized switch gets turned on | | | By Colin Jeffrey, Gizmag | | | In the pursuit of ever-shrinking circuitry for nanotechnology electronics, increasingly smaller devices and components are being developed. Now researchers at the University of Konstanz and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) in Germany claim to have micro-miniaturized the humble electrical switch all the way down to molecule size and proven its operation for the very first time. More»
Why This Matters: Obviouly you can't turn it on with a wall switch. You use a light to turn on the "light". -Cynthia Wisehart |
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