Word: sling
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There is a lot of excitement about devices that let you watch your own TV programming while you're traveling around the country, and even abroad. I've written about Sling Media's Slingbox and Sony's LocationFree TV in the past, but I never got a chance to test them side by side. Now that Sling has introduced a mobile-phone version of its SlingPlayer, and Sony has introduced compatibility with Windows laptops and its popular PSP game system, I felt it was high time for a showdown...
...paid millions for the broadcast rights to certain events and shows. But it's impossible to deny the beauty of the silvery, 27-cm-long, Chunky-bar-shaped plastic device. "The Slingbox gives you exactly what your home TV experience is when you're on the road," says Sling Media's 38-year-old chief executive Blake Krikorian, who co-invented the gadget with his younger brother Jason so that they could watch San Francisco Giants baseball games while globetrotting. "It frees the TV from the confines of the living room." Krikorian put the device to the test in Cannes...
...burning coal or natural gas. But installing the Sunflower costs about half as much as conventional solar, or about $4.50 a watt, with a minimum order of 100 kilowatts. If that price drops to half that within five years and production scales up, Energy Innovations could be positioned to sling stones at King Coal...
...right arm in a sling, freshman defenseman Jack Christian missed last Saturday’s game thanks to a hit the previous night that injured his shoulder...
...played not only [St. Lawrence], but the guys in black and white.” In 15:10 of man-advantage time, the Saints took 23 shots on goal without success. INJURY REPORT Rookie defenseman Jack Christian left the locker room Friday with his right arm in a sling and did not play Saturday. Sophomore J.D. McCabe skated in his stead. Also out of action against St. Lawrence was sophomore forward Paul Dufault, who went down for several minutes during Friday’s game clutching his head after a hard open-ice collision. He was replaced Saturday by freshman...