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...already got digital music files like MP3s and digital music players like the iPod, so why not create music with a digital instrument in the first place? In January, Gibson will be the first musical-instrument maker to release an electric guitar with a digitizing microprocessor and circuit board built right in. When a player strums the guitar, the analog signal from each of the six strings is converted into a digital file and then pushed out of the guitar through an Ethernet connection attached to the instrument. The resulting sound is much clearer and less susceptible to all sorts...
Nokia's Business Boom For Nokia, the world's largest mobile-phone maker, this might shape up to be an explosive Christmas season. Consumer groups in Germany and Belgium warned that the batteries in some of Nokia's most popular phones can short-circuit, overheat and even blow up. The announcement, made after extensive testing by Belgium 's Test-Aankoop association, set off a storm; consumers flooded the group's switchboard reporting their own mobile problems. The firm insists its batteries are safe and says many that the Belgians tested were counterfeit. Consumer groups say it's impossible to tell...
...This ‘maker of books,’ currently in the midst of his next project about the human body, said he hopes that his readers take hold of the message that architecture is something that affects us all at a fundamental and universal level. Whether it comes from Turkey, Rome, or the United States, Macaulay said, architecture is conceived of, built, and appreciated in the same manner...
...find some level of hypocrisy in the stance that Dick Gephardt has taken. However, I do leave him room to grow as a policy maker in the United States. He does have a long history of not actually being a strong supporter of gay rights,” he said. “But, I do applaud his support of civil union—it shows he has progressed in his political career...
Money-losing firms in the S&P are once again outperforming their moneymaking peers, up 65% vs. 26% so far this year. Fiber-optic-components maker JDS Uniphase, for instance has not turned a profit since 1996, although it did help devastate many a retirement account. Yet shares of JDS have climbed 54% this year...