7 Man-Made Substances that Laugh in the Face of Physics. Odds are pretty good that some of you are reading this on an LCD screen while the rest of us are trying to make it out on the 13-inch monochrome monitor that came with our garage sale Commodore 64.
But even with the LCD, some laptops still weigh over 10-pounds. And while that doesn't seem like much, the level of muscle atrophy experienced by the average Warcraft addict makes that weight a thousand times heavier. However, elastic conductors could fix that and make smuggling your porn collection into church even easier. Also, oooohhh. Elastic conductors are made of "ionic liquid" mixed with carbon nanotubes. Google TV reborn: ARM support, new OEMs, and more – New Tech Gadgets &Electronic Devices. For some time the future of Google TV was looking pretty grim.
Logitech, whose overprice and underpowered Revue failed miserably, had decided to move on to greener pastures. Sony seemed like the only supporter of Google TV when the 3.1 update came out in October, and it seems like even less people bought the Sony Blu-Ray player and Sony TVs then had bought the Revue. With competitors like Roku making waves everywhere, the ever louder drum of rumors surrounding an Apple TV, and every TV manufacturer out there trying to figure out how Smart TVs will keep them relevant, Google needed to make a big play to keep their service in the game.
More hardware, less expensive, and faster distribution are necessary in order for the platform to survive.