After Ovshinsky allegedly violated their agreement, Manning sued and eventually received control of ECD's X-ray-mirror and flat-panel display technology, which he later sold off.
Their vibe is masculine with a gray-and-brown palette and a surfeit of technology, such as the maddening touch-screen panel meant to control the suite's three TVs (one in the bathroom mirror), DVD player, radio, iPod dock, temperature, drapes, lights, and many other things I never got the hang of.
As solar panel prices have plunged, developers like Solar Millennium have abandoned solar thermal technology, which uses huge mirror arrays to heat water to create steam that drives an electricity-generating turbine.