Ultraviolet water-filtering pitcher puts Brita on notice

Water-filtering pitchers such as Brita Pitchers have become all the rage over the past few years, as they're a relatively inexpensive way to filter the crap out of your tap water. But is there an even better way to filter your water? Maybe!
Avatar 3D Blu-ray Launch To Be Exclusive To Panasonic TV Buyers

Big Avatar fan? Bought a 3D-capable TV just so you could watch it again in all its glory? Well, you might want to sit down. Panasonic and 20th Century Fox have arrived at a deal whereby the upcoming 3D Blu-ray version of the film will only be sold to people buying new Panasonic displays. It’d be for a limited time, of course, but no dates were mentioned. A spokesman for Panasonic said they were also trying to “do the right thing” and let people who had recently ...
Avatar 3D Blu-ray Launch To Be Exclusive To Panasonic TV Buyers

Big Avatar fan? Bought a 3D-capable TV just so you could watch it again in all its glory? Well, you might want to sit down. Panasonic and 20th Century Fox have arrived at a deal whereby the upcoming 3D Blu-ray version of the film will only be sold to people buying new Panasonic displays. It’d be for a limited time, of course, but no dates were mentioned. A spokesman for Panasonic said they were also trying to “do the right thing” and let people who had recently ...
6 things apple didn’t announce today, but should soon

Apple came out swinging with plenty of big announcements: a relaunch of Apple TV, some nice new iPods, and even a social networking service. Still, there are plenty of things Apple didn't — perhaps even failed — to make official. Here are six of those.
LG Rolling Out New Smart TVs At IFA

There is a war being waged by TV makers. A war against set-top boxes. See, TV makers like LG and Sony don’t want you going off and buying a Roku , or iTV , or what have you. So over the last couple years, they keep adding features to their TVs — apps, internet, weather, that kind of thing. LG’s latest, which it will be showing at IFA this next week, doesn’t look terribly different from the stuff we’ve seen from others, but the new control scheme ...
The iPhone 4 could be getting a new antenna

After blaming users, besmirching competitors and finally offering a free iPhone 4 case to appease customers, rumor has it that Apple could relent in the biggest way: revising the antenna on the iPhone 4.
Researchers create pixels eight times smaller than the Retina Display

You might be pretty proud of your iPhone 4's Retina Display, and those teensy pixels 4x smaller than the already good-looking usual Apple displays. Or maybe you're looking forward to seeing the Retina installed in some of Apple's other products at the event later this week. But like most consumer electronics these days, that display isn't quite state-of-the-art. Researchers at the University of Michigan have created a display with nanometer-thin sheets of metal (called nanoresonators) ...
Video: iPad-based Point Of Sale Cash Register System

By now, we’ve learned the Japanese have found a number of creative ways to use the iPad . And today we can show you a new one: the iPad as the basis of a sophisticated, yet low-cost point of sale cash register system. Dubbed FLAVIUS [JP], the system is actually being used by several business across Japan already. The way it works is that the iPad is the core of a system that also includes a special-purpose counter (pictured below) and a Wi-Fi router. The iPad can ...