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...company has announced four Qualia products so far, and each is a marriage of luxurious materials, cutting-edge design and industrial-strength tech. Although the products are undeniably pricey, they're also really cool...
...fourth Qualia product is out now, and while it's the only nonpersonal tech item of the bunch, it's the most innovative. The $30,000 projector features the highest screen resolution available for TV and movie watching, and a high-powered xenon lamp that mimics sunlight...
...price tag, includes a motorized mount to track objects as Earth rotates (so you don't have to keep recentering the scope) and a preprogrammed celestial tour to guide you to the coolest objects visible each night, based on the location you input. The bad news: Celestron's tech support doesn't work nights. (Earth to Celestron: Wake up.) Also, at 14 lbs., the 4-in. scope is extremely portable, but each time you relocate to see past, say, a tree, you'll have to help the scope reorient itself. That may take a couple of minutes, but it beats...
...Europe. Being a chief executive officer these days is a bit like being on a reality-TV show: no one knows who will get voted out next. In the past month alone, London-based SSL International, maker of Durex condoms and Scholl foot products, replaced its CEO. German tech company Infineon unexpectedly lost its blunt-speaking CEO, Ulrich Schumacher. He said he was leaving for "personal reasons," but it's clear that the board and shareholders were dissatisfied with the company's performance. An interim chief, Max Dietrich Kley, now runs the company. A revolt by French shareholders...
...most successful of the Olympic-tech companies is Switzerland-based Dartfish, whose training software, including Dartswim, is used by athletes in more than 20 countries, including Germany, Thailand and Venezuela. In the U.S., some two dozen Olympic sports use Dartfish. The technology helped athletes worldwide win 45 medals in the 2002 Winter Games, according to Victor Bergonzoli, general manager of the company's U.S. unit. "There are about half a dozen similar programs," says Mike Leigh, a technologist for the U.S. Olympic Committee in Colorado Springs, Colo., who has worked in sports science for 20 years. "But none works better...