Adobe gets an e-earful, and listens

A lot of people use Adobe Systems software, and apparently a lot of them feel the need to vent.

Web designer Erik Frick created the Dear Adobe site where users can enter gripes and vote for or against others' gripes. "It started from a conversation between Adam (Meisel) and myself complaining about Photoshop. Both of us being Web design nerds, we figured, 'Why not create a forum for people to vent? Who knows, maybe Adobe will listen,'" he said Tuesday on the site's inaugural blog posting.

Sure enough. Photoshop Principal Product Manager John Nack said the site generated more than 30 e-mails within Adobe in the first two days, and Nack himself responded to a few gripes at the site.

"Just because it would be unprofessional of me or others to rant about this or that aspect of the company in public, don't for a second think it's not happening behind closed doors," Nack said, acknowledging complaints about Creative Suite 3's installation and update software.

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Sony to launch world's thinnest LCD TVs

Sony to launch world's thinnest LCD TVs
The 40-inch model is estimated to sell for around $4,478
By Kiyoshi Takenaka
Reuters
Fri., Aug. 29, 2008

TOKYO - Sony Corp said on Thursday it would launch the world's thinnest liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs this year, broadening its product line-up ahead of the critical year-end shopping season.
The new 40-inch model, which is 9.9 mm thick, is estimated to sell for 490,000 yen ($4,478) in Japan, Sony said.
The Japanese electronics and entertainment conglomerate will also offer the world's first LCD TVs that display 240 frames per second, compared with 120 frames for Sony's existing models.
More frames in a given time make fast-moving images in sports programs and action movies look seamless.
Sony, the world's second-largest LCD TV maker behind Samsung Electronics Co Ltd expects a 46-inch model with the 240 frame function to sell for around 400,000 yen.
Both models will go on sale in Japan on November 10, closely followed by overseas launches.
Sony said a slowing economy has had little effect on its LCD TV sales, and that the maker of Bravia brand flat TVs is on track to hit its target to sell 17 million LCD TVs in the year to March 2009.
Copyright 2008 Reuters.

WiTricity (Wireless Electricity)

I've heard of rumors about this. It reminds me of the Pylons that the Protoss builds in Starcraft. I guess we're going to be a Protoss integrated Terran race...awesome!

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. --- Imagine a future in which wireless power transfer is feasible: cell phones, household robots, mp3 players, laptop computers, and other portable electronics capable of charging themselves without ever being plugged in, freeing us from that final, ubiquitous power wire. Some of these devices might not even need their bulky batteries to operate.

http://web.mit.edu/isn/newsandevents/wireless_power.html