#consumer electronic

[cewexpo]

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[reasonsforhope]

"The California state government has passed a landmark law that obligates technology companies to provide parts and manuals for repairing smartphones for seven years after their market release.

Senate Bill 244 passed 65-0 in the Assembly, and 38-0 in the Senate, and made California, the seat of so much of American technological hardware and software, the third state in the union to pass this so-called “right to repair” legislation.

On a more granular level, the bill guarantees consumers’ rights to replacement parts for three years’ time in the case of devices costing between $50 and $99, and seven years in the case of devices costing more than $100, with the bill retroactively affecting devices made and sold in 2021.

Similar laws have been passed in Minnesota and New York, but none with such a long-term period as California.

“Accessible, affordable, widely available repair benefits everyone,” said Kyle Wiens, the CEO of advocacy group iFixit, in a statement. “We’re especially thrilled to see this bill pass in the state where iFixit is headquartered, which also happens to be Big Tech’s backyard. Since Right to Repair can pass here, expect it to be on its way to a backyard near you.” ...

One of the reasons Wiens is cheering this on is because large manufacturers, from John Deere to Apple, have previously lobbied heavily against right-to-repair legislation for two reasons. One, it allows them to corner the repair and maintenance markets, and two, it [allegedly] protects their intellectual property and trade secrets from knock-offs or competition.

However, a byproduct of the difficulty of repairing modern electronics is that most people just throw them away.

...Wien added in the statement that he believes the California bill is a watershed that will cause a landslide of this legislation to come in the near future."

-via Good News Network, October 16, 2023

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Concept logos for The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall

These specific logos were created in preparation for the 1994(5?) Consumer Electronics Show

Art by David Lee Anderson

[nando161mando]

[coupleofdays]

Adding another wrinkle to the "on what date did Tron actually take place?" confusion: When Dillinger talks to the MCP at the beginning on the film, there's the following exchange:

MCP: "Hello, Mr. Dillinger. Thanks for coming back early."

Dillinger: "No problem, Master C. If you've seen one consumer electronic show, you've seen them all. What's up?"

The Consumer Electronics Show, or CES for short, has been running annually at different venues since 1967. If we assume that Tron is set in the year 1982, then the CES of that year was held in Chicago on June 3-6 (it was where the Commodore 64 was shown for the first time!). So if it's this particular "consumer electronic show" Dillinger is referring to, presumably the film would take place in early June?

(Of course, it would be easy to simply say that in the movie universe, CES was held at a different date that year.)

(CES 1982 photos by Alan Light)

[cognitivejustice]

To build all of the solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries, and other technologies necessary to fight climate change, we’re going to need a lot more metals. Mining those metals from the Earth creates damage and pollution that threaten ecosystems and communities. But there’s another potential source of the copper, nickel, aluminum, and rare-earth minerals needed to stabilize the climate: the mountain of electronic waste humanity discards each year. 

Exactly how much of each clean energy metal is there in the laptops, printers, and smart fridges the world discards? Until recently, no one really knew. Data on more obscure metals like neodymium and palladium, which play small but critical roles in established and emerging green energy technologies, has been especially hard to come by.

Now, the United Nations has taken a first step toward filling in these data gaps with the latest installment of its periodic report on e-waste around the world. Released last month, the new Global E-Waste Monitor shows the staggering scale of the e-waste crisis, which reached a new record in 2022 when the world threw out 62 million metric tons of electronics. And for the first time, the report includes a detailed breakdown of the metals present in our electronic garbage, and how often they are being recycled.

“There is very little reporting on the recovery of metals [from e-waste] globally,” lead report author Kees Baldé told Grist. “We felt it was our duty to get more facts on the table.”

[popping-your-culture]

Computer ads from the 1960s through the early 1980s are bursting with optimism for a future made easier—and better—through technology. Now, step back into the retro-future with this handpicked selection of vintage ads. The full blog post over at the Wordpress site has even more fun images. Enjoy.

[trans-phone-eater]

[humanoidhistory]

AT&T’s VideoPhone 2500 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, 1993.

[stone-cold-groove]

Radio Queen. Radiolympia Trade & Consumer Show - 1939.

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for August 25, 2014; #60.

Merzbow “Night Noise White”

G-Jupitter Larsen & The Haters “Hermaphrodite Liberation”

Rosemary Malign & The Eugenics “Dirty Girl”

Nurse With Wound “The Six Buttons Of Sex Appeal”

Boyd Rice “Black Light District”

Tunnel Canary “Jihad”

Masonna “Wear Your Love Like Heaven”

Hanatarashi, The “My Dad Is Car”

Einsturzende Neubauten “Atomarer Walzer / Sprachlos”

M.B. (Maurizio Bianchi) “Humus Nucleaire”

Haters, The “Destroyed Music” (excerpt)

Aube “Ionosphere”

Gerogerigegege, The “Gwendolyn”

Consumer Electronics “Black Cotton Wool”

Z’ev “Heads & Tales 7”

Throbbing Gristle “Very Friendly”

Whitehouse “Daddo”

Hijokaiden, The “Basic Policy”

Prurient “Months Lengthening Into Years”

NON “A Taste Of Blood”

SPK “Serenace”

Bonus broadcast; all noise.

[id-al]

[elderscrollsconceptart]

This is very interesting

This is cam footage of the 1995 CES show.

It shows off the only(?) known footage of the Daggerfall trailer that was shown at CES '95

AFAIK this trailer has never been uploaded elsewhere so this rough cam footage is the only version of the trailer that still exists publicly. It was recorded by a journalist from the French Gén4 magazine.

Very interesting insight into how Bethesda was trying to hype up their next game less than a year after Arena had been released

[metropole-journal]

[fuzzyghost]