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...have to bring real innovation to the game," says Johann Eliasch, CEO of Head--who exited golf because he didn't think his company could do so there. Tennis was another matter; last summer Head launched the Intelligence line, which uses piezoelectric fibers in the frame. The fibers convert the energy produced when the ball strikes the strings to electrical impulses and then redistribute that energy optimally to maximize power. (Goran Ivanisevic used one to win Wimbledon...
...Rhino Home Video, for instance, offers cult classics ranging from Chris Elliott's slacker sitcom Get a Life to the trippy '60s kids' show H.R. Pufnstuf (the DVD versions offer videophile gimmicks like being able to turn off Life's laugh track). This is a material world: if you convert an evanescent work into something tangible, shelvable, revisitable and Christmas-giftable, we respect it better. Says Robert Thompson, professor and head of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University (and curator of a collection of MTM Enterprises videos): "The video and DVD revolution is making...
...trouble started with the software that came free with my external CD-R drive (a Hewlett-Packard 8200, one of the most popular). It refused to recognize most of the tunes on my hard drive, which meant I had to hunt for another program that would convert those songs into a more amenable file format. Even then, the ungrateful software served up a CD with pops and clicks after every track...
Since 1998, wind power has been the fastest-growing new source of electricity in the world, expanding an average of 30% a year. Sales of photovoltaic panels (also known as solar cells), which convert the sun's energy directly into electricity, grew by 37% last year. At high-tech companies and hospitals, executives with a special concern about power disruptions are looking at fuel cells to supply clean and reliable power on site (albeit at prices that currently remain higher on average than those charged by the big utilities...
...solar in the world, and 75% of the 4 million devices sold so far are on rooftops, partly because of government incentives. The experience of selling mass quantities of photovoltaics at home helped firms such as Sharp, with 17.5% of the world market for the basic modules that convert solar energy to electricity, and Kyocera, with 14.6% of this module market, pull ahead of American rivals...