There is a deluge of 4k displays on the show floor - some adding OLED (organic light-emitting diode) tech to offer richer colours, others slimming the screen's bezel down until it is almost not there.
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Inside, the space is syncopated into easy bays with carefully positioned skylights for natural light, instead of the baroquely high-tech contraptions favored at other museums.
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These include NFC, backlit keyboards and webcams with Sony's Exmor R imaging tech for better low-light performance.
Finally, we were dazzled by two high-tech garments that harness LEDs to light up the night.
The earnings calendar remains light today, with notable reports arriving from Fuel- Tech (FTEK), United National Foods ( UNFI), AeroVironment ( AVAV), Metabolix (MBLX), and Pandora Media (P).
That ghostly union also emerges in work by the artists and groups associated with the international trend Nouvelle Tendance, who emphasized the collective and impersonal, favoring high-tech materials, geometric forms, light, movement and an active engagement with the viewer.
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The past week also saw several remarkable advances in clean tech, starting with MIT's latest innovation, a new type of high-tech fiber that can transmit sound, light, and generate electricity.
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While GE and Philips could sell millions of light bulbs, only one company sold 450 million units of high-tech devices each year.
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In this high-tech era when money moves at the speed of light, it makes less and less sense for banks to sit on a customer's deposit for days, collecting interest on the "float" while the depositor waits to draw on his deposit.
Unlike other pet-tracking devices, which can look like decommissioned Soviet-era spy gear, Tagg's waterproof transmitter is thin, light and styled to match Fido's and Whisker's high-tech lifestyles.
Special exhibits are housed in Rem Koolhaas' high-tech "black box" structure, which allows no outside light to penetrate.
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Perhaps most important, digital wireless is prying open the biggest bottleneck in tech--that "last mile" between speed-of-light fiber-optic networks and the zippy insides of your PC.
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For civilian purposes, these materials are crucial for high-tech items such as computers and televisions as well as green items such as batteries and fluorescent light bulbs.
The 3DMark DirectX 11 tech demo brings this scene to life with intelligent tessellation and advanced volumetric lighting using real-time light scattering.
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