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Most Googled Wedding Video

By Kenn | Published July 22, 2011

From a post at San Francisco Brides, this David Robin Films video was filmed on Joya’s and Emre’s wedding day: March 26, 2011 at Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. With more than a million views on Vimeo and YouTube, there’s even a behind the scenes story. The wedding day video utilized seven cameramen, four photographers, and four wedding coordinators.

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Photo of the Day – Godzillatron

By Kenn | Published January 27, 2010
Godzillatron at the Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium

Godzillatron at the Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium (photo by Kenn Stearns)

When the University of Texas at Austin decided to invest $160+ million in a new stadium it seemed only fitting the $8 million allocated for “audiovisual improvements” should include the largest high-definition video screen in the world. After all, this is Texas. Advertising on the screen at times fills more than 50% of the viewable area leading some to refer to it as “Adzillatron.” Non-stop audio from the device frequently drowns out the school’s popular band which was coincidentally repositioned to temporary bleachers directly below the display.

The “scoreboard” is 55-feet high by 134-feet wide totaling 7,370 square feet. With a pixel resolution of 2064 x 848, the screen delivers 4.4 trillion color capability. It weighs 52 tons and was assembled from 36 large pieces that were transported on flatbed trucks to Austin from the manufacturer Daktronics in South Dakota. The screen is no longer the largest in the world but remains among the loudest and can be “enjoyed” by virtually everyone in the stadium, except the band.

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Wireless Power and Video

By Kenn | Published January 10, 2010

At CES 2010 Haier is displaying an ingenious prototype TVthat utlizes WiTricity and the new wireless High Definition video standard (WHDI).  This is a LCD TV powered wirelessly from a distance and displaying content delivered wirelessly from a Haier prototype Blu-ray player.

Ultra-Slim LED HDTV

Haier's 22" LED HDTV

WHDI provides an uncompressed wireless link that supports delivery of 1080p, 1080i and 720p content in the 5GHz unlicensed band with a range beyond 100 feet, through walls, with latency at less than one millisecond.

WiTricity Corp. was founded in 2007 to commercialize a new technology for wireless electricity invented in 2005 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Initial venture capital funding came from Stata Ventures and Argonaut Private Equity.  Stata Ventures is a technology investment firm managed by Ray Stata, the founder, Chairman, and former CEO of Analog Devices. The technology transfers electric energy or power over distance without wires – the ability to provide electrical energy to remote objects without wires using oscillating magnetic fields.

There are a number of interesting implications for these technologies beyond the obvious convenience of being able to place a large TV virtually anywhere.

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