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Australia takes on energy-guzzling TVs

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 10, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A report for the Australian government recommends new energy efficiency standards for televisions that would ban most plasma models now available.


A Panasonic employee presents a huge 103-inch plasma TV screen

Panasonic to show TV at Stock Exchange

Electronics /

created Apr 18, 2006 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Panasonic will be showcasing the world's largest high-definition plasma television at the closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday.


LG to Launch 15-inch OLED TV

LG to Launch 15-inch OLED TV

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Korean company, LG Electronics, the second largest television manufacturer in the world, has announced it will launch a 15-inch organic display TV set in early September. The announcement, ...


Panasonic Develops World's First 3D Full HD Plasma Theater System

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 24, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Panasonic has developed the world's first 3D full HD Plasma Theater System, which enables the viewing of true-to-life 3D images by using a 103-inch plasma television and a Blu-ray Disc (BD) player, distributing full high-definition ...


An electronics shop in Tokyo

Japan's Pioneer expects sixth year in red

Technology / Business

created May 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japan's Pioneer Corp. warned it would spend a sixth straight year in the red as it pulls the plug on its loss-making television business and slashes thousands of jobs.


Upping the power triggers an ordered helical plasma

Upping the power triggers an ordered helical plasma

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

If you keep twisting a straight elastic string, at some moment it starts kinking in a wild way. Something similar occurs when one increases the electrical current flowing in a magnetized plasma doughnut: it ...


Researcher uses 100,000 degree heat to study plasma

Researcher uses 100,000 degree heat to study plasma

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Using one of the greatest sources of radiation energy created by man, University of Nevada, Reno researcher and faculty member Roberto Mancini is studying ultra-high temperature and non-equilibrium plasmas ...


Cool plasma packs heat against biofilms

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 9

Though it looks like a tiny purple blowtorch, a pencil-sized plume of plasma on the tip of a small probe remains at room temperature as it swiftly dismantles tough bacterial colonies deep inside a human tooth. But it's not ...


Old TVs bad landfill reception

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 24, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

When U.S. broadcasters switch to digital transmissions, millions of viewers will likely discard analog televisions creating a potential environmental disaster.


HIV-1's 'hijacking mechanism' pinpointed by researchers

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at McGill University and the affiliated Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital - along with colleagues at the University of Manitoba and the University of British Columbia ...


Signs of ideal surfing conditions spotted in ocean of solar wind

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Warwick have found what could be the signal of ideal wave "surfing" conditions for individual particles within the massive turbulent ocean of the solar wind. The discovery ...


With stimulus aid, scientists hope to mimic nature's dynamos

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the cosmos, all celestial objects - planets, stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies - have magnetic fields. On Earth, the magnetic field of our home planet is most easily observed in a compass where ...


Roadrunner supercomputer models nonlinear physics of high-power lasers

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

For years scientists have struggled with the difficult physics of inertial confinement fusion. This is the attempt to compress a target capsule containing isotopes of hydrogen with high-powered lasers to high enough pressure ...


Panasonic unveils world's largest plasma television

Panasonic unveils world's largest plasma television

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 07, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (28) | comments 4

Japanese electronics titan Panasonic unveiled the world's largest plasma television Monday at the opening of the world's biggest consumer electronics trade show.


High-performance plasmas may make reliable, efficient fusion power a reality

High-performance plasmas may make reliable, efficient fusion power a reality

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (40) | comments 48

In the quest to produce nuclear fusion energy, researchers from the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have recently confirmed long-standing theoretical predictions that performance, efficiency and reliability ...