The XBR LED Internet TV features Sony's Intelligent Peak LED Backlight which uses full-array local dimming for better detail in black, and improved brightness creating incredible on-screen contrast.
Bunell led the audience through a mind-boggling array of slides illustrating numerous techniques for improving availability in embedded systems independent of hardware redundancy.
Looks like all that heat generated by your laptop may finally be useful for something other than frying eggs -- a group of grad students led by professor Orest Symko at the University of Utah has unveiled an array of "thermoacoustic" engines that turn heat into sound, which can be directed at a piezoelectric mechanism to produce electricity.