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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...
...waste. The U.S. is the only industrialized country that refused to ratify the 19-year-old Basel Convention, an international treaty designed to regulate the export of hazardous waste to developing nations. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) oversees the export of only one type of e-waste--cathode-ray tubes in old TVs and monitors--and a report last August by the Government Accountability Office dismissed the EPA's enforcement as "lacking...
...same report included a sting investigation that found that 43 U.S. recycling firms were willing to ship broken monitors with cathode-ray tubes to buyers in foreign countries without getting the required permission from the EPA and the receiving nations. Yet some of these companies had been trumpeting their exemplary environmental principles to the public. "At least three of them held Earth Day 2008 electronics-recycling events," the report notes...
...pictures from an X-Ray studio...
...pictures from an X-Ray studio...