Wide Angle: Future TV
On June 12, 2009, broadcast stations in the United States went digital, and all analog signals were turned off. It was one of the latest technological advances in the history of television, but it won't be the last. We'll take a look back at where TV came from, and look forward to where it's going.
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Is Television Harmful to Children?
Too much television at a young age can slow language development and promote obesity.
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Color-Shifting Cuttlefish Inspire TV Screens
Cuttlefish are masters of disguise, able to change their skin color in less than a second to hide from predators or draw in prey for the kill. Using the species as a model, MIT scientists have developed an inexpensive but hi-tech screen that could be used in a variety of applications.
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Human Ear Inspires Universal Radio
TV, radio, GPS, cell phones, wireless Internet, and other electronics all use different radio waves to receive and send information. In the future, a cell phone equipped with such a chip could easily pick up TV programs, songs on the radio, and virtually all other radio transmissions.
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Europe Looks for a Peer-to-Peer TV
The same kind of peer-to-peer file sharing that made Napster famous -- and infamous -- is being used in a new research project in Europe that aims to pipe TV programs over the Internet.
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