On January, 26th, 1926 there was a demo of a new device called a “television.” John Logie Baird gave the public a demo in his lab in London.

The television has come a long way in 83 years. Once a device owned by a few, by the year 2000, 98% of the United States households owned at least one television. We’ve seen a lot of progress in the past few years with the widespread adoption of high definition televisions with a new aspect ratio.

Continue reading to take a look at a graphic made by Sony detailing television’s history. Of course, they toot their own horn by mentioning their stuff, but Sony TVs are pretty sweet.

Trying new stuff sometimes just doesn’t work, especially when it is embedded into society and is in the hearts and minds of some of the most loyal people in the world (i.e. geeks!). So why, oh why, would you want to redesign the keyboard? The history, the tradition and the time learning to type on it are three things that no previous attempt have been able to overcome, but nevertheless μTRON have tried and the result is at no less than interesting.

Only ten days left of August. Microsoft claimed Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 would be out some time this month. Well, the countdown is on. And hmmmm…there are rumors flying around that it is going to be a special version. Private. Yeah, code name for “porn mode”.

Private browsing lets a user go anywhere they want without leaving any tracks. It’s like they were just magically never there. Firefox decided not to go with it, and currently Safari is the only browser sporting this feature. The Mozilla Foundation, however does argue that “although while viewing pornography may be a popular use case due to the nature of content on the Web, assuming that this is the only reason that users need private browsing trivializes the overall feature. For instance, users may wish to begin a private browsing session to research a medical condition, or plan a surprise vacation or birthday party for a loved one.”

If trademark filings are any indications…the rumors of IE taking on private browsing may indeed be based on fact. July 30th filings by Microsoft: