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With a Google merger on the horizon, Motorola is playing it cool at CES this year. The Droid 4 is the only truly new product announced and it has been so heavily leaked that we thought it was going to launch on Verizon in December. After some brief hands-on, I can easily say that the Droid 4 is the phone that the Droid 3 should have been. This is the phone that owners of the original Droid have been hoping for all year (I know you're… Read More

Tired of your smartphone or laptop dying on you? UCLA engineers have figured out a way to use LCD screens to power electronic devices by harvesting energy from surrounding light sources. Liquid crystal displays, or LCDs, can be found in much of today's electronics such as TVs, smartphones, computers and more. These displays work using two polarized sheets sandwiching crystal molecules between them which act act as light valves. The… Read More

You've heard about LCDs. You've heard about plasmas. Maybe even you even understand all the pros and cons between them. But what are all these “LED televisions” we keep hearing about? It's a question we hear a lot from budding home theater shoppers. Blame the acronyms. While yesterday's consumers had to make a simple choice between CRT and rear-projection television sets, today's consumers are… Read More

JVC has announced that, beginning in July, it will begin offering two new LCD HDTVs in its Procision line that claim to be the world's thinnest LCDs with integrated television tuners. Or, at least that was true way back in January when JVC first showed off these units at CES, but there's little denying that they're still pretty svelte, consuming just 1.5 inches in depth across most of their width, and just 2.9 inches at… Read More