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...This decade has definitely seen some of the most memorable CES events in history. The Microsoft Xbox and the plasma TV were both unveiled in 2001. High-definition TV and Blu-Ray came along by 2003. When Bill Gates was demonstrating Windows Media Center at the 2005 CES, his on-stage computer crashed mid-demo; a few minutes later, a Microsoft employee got the "blue screen of death" when demonstrating another application. Chuckles and schadenfreude abounded...
...Battlestar Galactica. But just in case TV stars and Bill Gates' exit weren't enough to qualify as CES wow factor, there was still enough impressive gadgetry to create the kind of buzz the trade show is made for. Case in point: Panasonic's droolworthy 150-inch plasma...
...half an inch in depth while offering screen sizes in the 100-in.-plus range. OLED TVs, using an amazing new display technology that draws little power but offers a huge array of colors, are now hovering around 21 in., which means that competitive sizes at competitive prices with plasma and LCDs ought to be available in another year...
...Holdren graduated from MIT in 1965, earned a master's degree from MIT and a Ph.D. from Stanford in aerospace engineering and plasma physics. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley for nearly 25 years before coming to Harvard...
...Holdren graduated from MIT in 1965, earned a masters degree from MIT and a Ph.D. from Stanford in aerospace engineering and plasma physics. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley for nearly 25 years before coming to Harvard...