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Feldman setup a group of televisions in a downtown storefront as part of "The End of Television: Part II." I didn’t see any coverage of this on our TV stations but the Orlando Sentinel’s tech blogger and theater blogger were all over it. It’s pretty neat to watch history take place. Especially when you can pause it and rewind (or fastforward through the boring bits).

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Roll over the tombs to see how SanDisk Sansa Fuze, Microsoft Zune, Creative Labs Zen, Sony Walkman, Dell DJ Ditty (which based on it's name alone deserves to die a horrible death) and iRiver Clix (which sux) were buried. So far amore than 180 million iPods have been sold around the world while somehow remaining pretty cool. The wonders of great design. Now, if Apple could just design an electric car. With an iPod dock right in the dashboard.

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Checkout this brilliant commercial showing how the hi-fi qualities of Loewe's luxury flat TVs come together. Hey, you always thought that tiny Japanese people powered Sony TVs, so logically these are all German. And then check out the second link to see how Bjork thinks a TV really really works (with a tip on not letting poets lie to you). Takk.

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"Forty Years of Ads on TV" includes dozens of sexy Dim lingerie ads (directed by William Klein, Luc Besson, Tony Scott and Hal Hartley, among others), whose Lalo Schiffrin theme music has become embedded in the French psyche. The exhibition happens to have arrived at a curious moment, when several major purveyors of television commercials have suddenly had their ads pulled from the air. Ostensibly to improve programming President Nicolas Sarkozy last month banned commercials from four major stat

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Called AirBorne, the upcoming novel will feature 30 chapters, each written by a different author except the first and last - those will be written by Patterson himself. With the release of this book, it appears the Web 2.0 movement of collaborative writing is about to hit the mainstream. Borders Australia and Random House held a contest to find twenty-eight writers who would be able to write the bulk of the book. Airborne will be released electronically, one chapter at a time, starting on March

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After three days of pressure from angry users and the threat of a formal legal complaint by a coalition of consumer advocacy groups, the company reversed changes to its contract with users that had appeared to give it perpetual ownership of their contributions to the service. Facebook user Julius Harper created a Facebook group to protest the changes. Soon after, he joined with Anne Kathrine Petteroe who had started a similar group. Within a day more than 100,000 people had joined their effort

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"No place in the United States is likely to escape a long and deep recession. Nonetheless, as the crisis continues to spread outward from New York, through industrial centers like Detroit, and into the Sun Belt, it will undoubtedly settle much more heavily on some places than on others. Some cities and regions will eventually spring back stronger than before. Others may never come back at all. I believe it marks the end of a chapter in American economic history, and indeed, the end of a whole wa

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The auction hybrid site swoopo.com (previously known as telebid.com) is a strange combination of eBay, woot, carnival side show and slot machine. Here's how it works - you purchase bids at 75 cents a pop, each bid you make raises the purchase price by 15 cents and increases the auction time by 15 seconds, and once the auction ends, you pay the final price. Which sounds good in theory until you do the maths. Recently a Macbook sold on there for the low price of $255.29, which is a great price fo

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