Jennifer Steinkamp
Daisy Bell
7 September - 18 October 2008
201 Chrystie Street
Opening Reception
Sunday, 7 Sept, Noon - 6 PM

Lehmann Maupin
201 Chrystie Street
New York, NY 10002
Telephone 212 254 0054
info@lehmannmaupin.com

For her first exhibition at Lehmann Maupin's 201 Chrystie Street gallery, Jennifer Steinkamp will present a new series of work entitled Daisy Bell. Here, in one of her most significant installations to date, the Los Angeles-based artist utilizes state-of-the-art equipment to wed her projections to the dramatic architecture of the gallery, dematerializing the space and creating an eerie environment.

The title, Daisy Bell, refers to a particular moment in the history of science and culture: in 1962, Bell Labs used the IBM 704 to synthesize the popular 19th-century English song of the same name. The song was also used in the climactic scene of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey in which the supercomputer HAL 9000 begins to sing Daisy, Daisy as his consciousness is degraded.

Steinkamp's Daisy Bell series is comprised of a variety of poisonous flowers that appear to cascade down the gallery walls. Much as Bell Lab's Daisy Bell consisted of a human application reinterpreting nature, Steinkamp reprises the idea, and defines this new series of artwork by its relationship to human innovations.

In 2008, the Getty Museum commissioned a site-specific work by Jennifer Steinkamp for its building designed by Richard Meier. Included in the survey California Video, it utilizes volcanic imagery to transform an oculus architectural detail. Translated from the Latin meaning eye; this architectural detail refers to an eye of god and Steinkamp creates a reference to the Getty Villa on the coast of California which is a recreation of the Villa of the Papyri that was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. By utilizing pyroclastic imagery stretched over time and space to represent God's body the artist has expanded this notion to include another physical element shown here with Left Clavicle.

In 2006, the Denver Art Museum commissioned an installation by the artist for its new Daniel Libeskind-designed building. Steinkamp's recent retrospective reached its final destination at the Albright-Knox Gallery this year, and following this, she will represent the United States at the 11th Cairo International Biennale in Egypt. Also this year, she participated in the acclaimed Badlands group exhibition at MassMoCA. Steinkamp's work is in major collections worldwide including, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, The Istanbul Modern in Turkey, the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, and the Towada Art Center in Japan, among other important private collections worldwide.

For further information about Jennifer Steinkamp or the gallery, please visit our website at www.LehmannMaupin.com, or contact Stephanie Smith at Stephanie@LehmannMaupin.com or 212 255 2923. On view at our Chelsea gallery (540 West 26th Street) is Russian artist Alexey Kallima from 4 September - 18 October 2008.

Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research

By Priya Ganapati

After six Nobel Prizes, the invention of the transistor, laser and countless contributions to computer science and technology, it is the end of the road for Bell Labs' fundamental physics research lab.

Alcatel-Lucent, the parent company of Bell Labs, is pulling out of basic science, material physics and semiconductor research and will instead be focusing on more immediately marketable areas such as networking, high-speed electronics, wireless, nanotechnology and software.

The idea is to align the research work in the Lab closer to areas that the parent company is focusing on, says Peter Benedict, spokesperson for Bell Labs and Alcatel-Lucent Ventures.

"In the new innovation model, research needs to keep addressing the need of the mother company," he says.

That view is shortsighted and may drastically curtail the Labs' ability to come up with truly innovative discoveries, respond critics.

"Fundamental physics is absolutely crucial to computing," says Mike Lubell, director of public affairs for the American Physical Society. "Say in the case of integrated circuits, there were many, many small steps that occurred along the way resulting from decades worth of work in matters of physics."

(continued at http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/08/bell-labs-kills.html)

In case you weren't previously aware, here's a list of some of the great inventions to come out of Bell Labs in the past:

At its peak, Bell Laboratories was the premier facility of its type, developing a wide range of revolutionary technologies, including radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, information theory, the UNIX operating system, and the C programming language. There have been six Nobel Prizes awarded for work completed at Bell Laboratories. ^[1]

• 1937 Clinton J. Davisson shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for demonstrating the wave nature of matter.
• 1956 John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, and William Shockley received the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the first transistors.
• 1977 Philip W. Anderson shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing an improved understanding of the electronic structure of glass and magnetic materials.
• 1978 Arno A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson shared the Nobel Prize in Physics. Penzias and Wilson were cited for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation, a nearly uniform glow that fills the Universe in the microwave band of the radio spectrum.
• 1997 Steven Chu, shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.
• 1998 Horst Stormer, Robert Laughlin, and Daniel Tsui, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery and explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs)

Yes, that's the transistor, the laser, UNIX, and the C programming language, let alone everything else they invented.

Thanks again, (Alcatel-)Lucent. Great job. :-(

Obviously, this is bad news for the American scientific/innovation/technology community. But it's news that I might normally have passed over (I'm not alone - keep reading), except for this:

I've been reading Thomas Friedman's manifesto on globalization in the 21st Century, "The World is Flat." Despite its many flaws, which I plan to write about upon finishing it, the book makes some excellent points. Once is that math and science education and development are no longer prioritized in this country. I won't dredge up the relentless stats and figures to back this up, but it's undeniably true.

Friedman spends much time on the idea that while we -Americans - have become complacent with our place at the top of the business heap, other nations such as India, Japan and China have been whomping us in education in these fields. To date, this has been a curious and somewhat disheartening trend. However, now, with the ever-increasing speeding up of globalization, these well-educated kids have grown up and are ready and very able to present their ideas to the world. The world, in turn, is very willing to accept them, and it won't have much problem imitating those ideas. 

Leading medical and research is being driven mostly by people from other countries or by people who immigrated to the States - take a gander at any scientific journal to see this. Technology is pulling scores of different jobs and industries to India, which has an abundance of highly skilled tech and math grads who no longer need to leave to America to work. China has become the manufacturing nexus through which all supply chains must pass, and its strength and population mean that pretty much any company with global aspirations has to set up shop there, or it won't make it.

Not only do these countries have the skills and the infrastructure to surpass America in innovation, they have the want to do so. Friedman nails this sentiment with this little zinger: "In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears - and that is our problem."

Our problem, incidentally, can be easily identified thanks to a snapshot of coverage, via Google News: Bell. Britney.

Bollocks.

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Alcatel-Lucent, the parent company of Bell Labs, is pulling out of basic science, material physics and semiconductor research and will instead be focusing on more immediately marketable areas such as networking, high-speed electronics, wireless, nanotechnology and software.

A damn shame that is too, though truth be told Bell Labs has been in decline ever since the break-up of AT&T. But its research record is monumental and likely will never be matched by a single organization. And there's likely a ripple effect up and down the research trade:

"Fundamental physics is absolutely crucial to computing," says Mike Lubell, director of public affairs for the American Physical Society. "Say in the case of integrated circuits, there were many, many small steps that occurred along the way resulting from decades worth of work in matters of physics."

Bell Labs was one of the last bastions of basic research within the corporate world, which over the past several decades has largely focused its R&D efforts on applied research -- areas of study with more immediate prospects of paying off.

Without internally funded basic research, fundamental research has instead come to rely on academic and government-funded laboratories to do kind of long-term projects without immediate and obvious payback that Bell Labs used to historically do, says Lubell.

Research depends on linkages between different disciplines. The strength of Bell Labs was that basic and applied research lived under one roof. Universities can duplicate that, but that requires conscious effort on their part and the applied-research side of the house is often controversial if it's funded by or linked to private industry. There's always an English professor pissed off because he can't get a grant to write another critique of Melville who will complain about it when others doing something more valuable can.

Uno de los edificios de los Bell Labs en su estado actual (imagen de wired.com)

Mientras que en Chile recien se esta empezando a debatir el tema de la investigacion y desarrollo en la empresa privada, en otros lugares vienen de vuelta pero no en el buen sentido de la frase, mas bien todo lo contrario.

Hace unos dias me entere por Wired que se cerraba la investigacion de Fisica Fundamental en los Bell Labs, institucion que ha marcado nuestra vida cotidiana de una manera que pocos conocen, por que?

Resulta que en los Bell Labs se han llevado descubrimientos e invenciones tan importantes para la humanidad como son la radiacion de fondo cosmica y el transistor. El primero, un descubrimiento casi accidental, es la radiacion remamente de la explosion que dio inicio a nuestro universo, el big bang. Por otro lado el transistor es la base de toda la tecnologia moderna, todos los circuitos de cualquier "gadget" estan hechos de transistores, un dispositivo desarrollado por primera vez en los Bell Labs y por el cual sus inventores recibieron el premio Nobel de Fisica en 1956. Mencione que el LASER tambien fue desarrollado en los Bell Labs?

Replica de el primer transistor, pilar de la tecnologia moderna.

El laboratorio deja 6 premios nobeles en Fisica y una larga lista de contribuciones la ciencia basica, telecomunicaciones e informatica. Ahora los actuales dueños del laboratorio lo orientaran a investigacion mas "relevante" para la industria como son las tecnologias inalambricas y el desarrollo de software. Realmente una lastima, desaparece un icono de nuestra era, de esos que uno encuentra recurrentemente en los libros de historia.

Un par de veces escuche decir al profesor Miguel Kiwi (Premio Nacional de Ciencias Exactas 2007) que si en el siglo XIX hubieran querido incentivar el desarrollo de las comunicaciones a largas distancias lo mas probable es que se hubiera financiado el desarrollo de un mejor sistema de carruajes en vez de la investigacion de Heinrich Hertz, pionero en estudio de las Ondas Electromagneticas, la base de lo que hoy llamamos Telecomunicaciones.

Links:

El articulo de Wired

Una galeria de la misma Wired dedicada a los Bell Labs

Lucent is also in Italy being a wide-world corporation. Some years ago I tried to be hired by them as a small part of Bell Labs was also in Italy but I get no answer back. They were already in the crisis that changed so deeply this company till the status we see today. One should understand that, for industry, research can be a luxury, what really matters today is to find as rapidly as possible solutions to make money. This does not mean that it is the right way to proceed but is the way I see applied everywhere,

In some way, money overcome the idea-leaded path toward the future we were all accustomed to and we have to forget it. We do not need solutions, we need more and more convinced people that buys our products. These are not time for Einstein, it is time to sell refrigerators to Eskimos.

If this is our future, money rather than ideas, bad times are waiting us. In Italy the question of industry doing research is dead many years ago. In US there are a lot of company doing this. The hope is that they do not give up.

Spent Sunday afternoon with world-renowned mathematician Michael Freedman (short bio here) walking the beach and bluffs above, just northwest of UC Santa Barbara, talking about a number of absurd and not-so-absurd possibilities in the future applications of quantum computing.  Here's an example of the kind of stuff I was trying, very hard and maybe somewhat successfully, to grasp while walking in the California sun and trying to ignore the nude sunbathers and hang-gliders.  If that's unhelpful (as most of it is for me), here's a straightforward description of some of his main work and its possible applications. 

To be honest, for my purposes I don't need to be able to do the math, just understand it enough to make a judgment with others on whether its application is potentially useful for government purposes (mostly exotic ones, admittedly). Haven't had this much mental fun in a long time...

Then had a good meeting this morning with Henry Yang, the Chancellor of UCSB.  Not only has he been a driving force for the university's partnership with Microsoft to establish Station Q as a world-class research institution, but Yang's also a subject-matter expert in related and interesting fields of Robotics and Dynamic Systems.  Wonderful guy.

Santa Barbara's always been a premier locus for theoretical physics and related theoretical fields; the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics is right next door to Station Q, just off the beach. Here's the payoff: Station Q's model is a concentric set of collaborative relationships, with Michael Freedman at UCSB leading a solid team of about 30 people (faculty, researchers, post-docs and grad students) but also working directly with other quantum researchers at Bell Labs, Harvard, CalTech, Columbia and a number of other institutions.  So having the Chancellor take such an interest in Q and its relationships is of great benefit, to the research and (he says) to the university.

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ver reportagem sobre os laboratórios Bell AQUI

notícia da criação da Cátedra Alcatel-Lucent e cooperação científica com os Bell Labs promovida pelo governo Português AQUI

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Fundados em 1925, ainda herdeiros da invenção do telefone os laboratórios Bell fizeram história e mantêm um papel determinante em muitas áreas cientificas, destacando-se, como seria de esperar, tudo o que diz respeito às telecomunicações.
Quase tudo o que está relacionado com transmissões de dados passou por lá. Desde a primeira transmissão por fax (1925) até às primeiras experiências de DSL que dariam origem a um dos principais meios de transmissão de dados na Internet de hoje.
O transístor que revolucionou a electrónica, as células solares inicialmente usadas para alimentação eléctrica de pequenos aparelhos em locais remotos e que hoje se banalizam na habitação, a investigação das redes que permitiram o uso de telemóveis, a transmissão por satélite, o sistema operativo Unix e a linguagem de programação C, estes e muitos milhares de outros feitos, começaram ou passaram pelos Laboratórios Bell.
Propriedade do ex-monopólio das comunicações que foi a AT&T, os Laboratórios Bell podiam e deviam dedicar-se à investigação pura e dura, mesmo assim a lista de invenções práticas é impressionante.

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Da Irlanda e Holanda até Índia e China, os laboratórios trabalham em 4 continentes, e tencionam alargar as parcerias. Daí a criação de uma cátedra em Portugal, e de um acordo para que estudantes universitários portugueses se aperfeiçoem em New Jersey. A parte académica é completada com acordos de cooperação com o Ministério das Obras Públicas e Telecomunicações. O governo e os Bell Labs vão colaborar em áreas como as redes sem fios e as redes de fibra óptica de nova geração algumas das grandes áreas de negócio da Alcatel Lucent.

fonte: www.sic.pt

El teléfono pesaba unos 800 gramos, tenía unos 25 centímetros de tamaño y su batería tenia una autonomía aproximada de 20 minutos. Como se puede comprobar en este vídeo, los móviles desde entonces no han cambiado nada.

[Left, National Geographic magazine; Right, Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times]

Some of you may have seen this story in last Friday's Real Estate section of the Times. While the High Line park will begin at Gansevoort and Washington, few people know that the High Line originally went as far south as St. John's Park Terminal, which covered four riverfront blocks between Clarkson and Spring Streets. (It's now a UPS warehouse.) In the 1960's, the High Line below Gansevoort was demolished, with the exception of the little section of rail running through the Westbeth complex, on Washington between Bank and Bethune.

The building was originally Bell Labs, where some of the most advanced precision telecommunications instruments were developed in the first half of the twentieth century. Because trains rumbled directly through the building, its labs were fitted with sophisiticated sound-and-vibration proofing. Since the 1970s, Westbeth has been one of the city's most successful live/work communities for artists.

Since it's not contiguous with the rest of the High Line, this Westbeth portion will not be developed as part of the park, but instead remain closed to the public, (maintaining its wild, abandoned feel.) From the Times:

25 feet above the sidewalk, the romance survives. The northerly half of the [Westbeth section], covered over by the building, is almost entirely free of plants. But the southerly part is open to the sky, and feels like an Irish heath, the ballast underneath the thin cover of plants yielding slightly underfoot. The rails are gone but rusty spikes, metal objects, a wooden tie and other leftovers attest to a time when rail was king.

So then I got to thinking about why I hadn't heard a busy signal in so long. I realised it's because everyone has cell phones now, and even if they don't, most people have call waiting. So you either get a person or voicemail, and you never don't get either. It's weird how quickly we've gotten used to this instant connectivity. That's technology, I suppose. This is also presumably why no one really knows each others' numbers anymore; they put it into their phone once and never have to dial it again. I used to know all of my friends by heart, and now I can hardly say the area code of any of my friends at school. I still know the numbers I learned before my cell phone, though; maybe it's tactile memory.

I was watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 the other week, and they were making fun of a short film called "Century 21 Calling," about Bell (I think?) Labs' presentation at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. This was off-and-on hilarious (it kind of dragged for being a short), but it was interesting to see what they saw as the future of the telephone. All the modern features—call waiting, speed dial, and so on— were actually there, but they were activated either by people or by punchcards inserted into the phone. Weird stuff. But it all happened (with some advances in user interface, of course).

Finally, two things that annoy me about phones.

1) In movies, when someone is making a phone call, and the person on the other line suddenly hangs up (usually because they're angry, kidnapped, or killed), it makes the dial tone noise. THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN!!!!! When the other person hangs up, there is a click and then silence. No dial tone, nothing. After about thirty seconds the little noise comes on saying that you should hang up, but no dial tone. There has been one movie I have seen EVER that has done this right. Awkwardly, I can't remember what it was, except that it was a very mediocre movie otherwise, but that little fact made me like it a lot more. And the dial tone appears in far too many movies to just be an accident. Maybe the dial tone is more dramatic? I don't know.

2) When you dial a number outside your local area code, but you forget to add the 1 in front of the number, the phone tells you. If it knows that you need the one, then it knows where you're trying to call. Therefore it should just connect you there. Seriously. I'm sure there's some technical reason for this, but it annoys me to no end. Cell phones do it automatically, so should land lines.

Those are my two cents about the telephone industry. What does a payphone cost nowadays? It used to be 35¢... Well, if it still is, which I doubt, those are my 35¢ about the telephone industry.

(Also, incidentally, you can always tell where a person is from by whether they say mobile or cell phone. If it's the former, it's most likely the UK.)

I dag skal der lyde et stort tillykke fra The Bach Blog til den kære (og vanedannende) mobiltelefon. Den 3. april 1973 blev det første opkald på en håndholdt mobiltelefon nemlig foretaget. Martin Cooper var med til at bevise, at det ikke kun er The Bach Blog, som er banebrydende. Han ringede til en ansat på det konkurrerende selskab Bell Labs, Joe Engell, på Motorolas DynaTAC 8000x - en mobbedreng på et par kilo. I forhold til de ikke-stationære mobiler på det tidspunkt, var DynaTAC'en let som en fjerd. Dengang vejede de "mobile" telefoner omkring 15 kilo. DynaTAC'en havde en batterilevetid på 35 minutter, hvorefter den igen skulle oplades i 10 timer. Der gik yderligere 10 år, inden DynaTAC'en i 1983 ramte markedet, og denne gang i en tyndere og lettere model - en model der kunne erhverves før sølle 35.000 kr.

Der er sket meget på mobiltelefonfronten siden da. Jeg husker min første mobiltelefon, som var det i går. Det var kort efter min konfirmation, og en ung og loadet Bach gik ned i telekæden for at købe sin mobil med taletidskort. Valget faldt på den nye fancy-pancy mobil fra Nokia - Nokia 5110. Den var SÅ sej - med Snake og udskiftelige covers, og til en pris på sølle 1.800 kr. med taletidskort fra Sonofon - dengang de stadig havde delfinen som logo!

I dag er mobilen en naturlig del af hverdagen - den er blevet en del af mit liv. En lille del, som ikke er til at undvære. Når mobilen går i stykker, hvilket kun sker for mig under byture, føler man sig nærmest handicappet indtil man får en ny.

Et stort tillykke til mobiltelefonen - den lille satan, der har kostet mig tusindvis af kroner, masser af tid og som er vigtigere end min lilletå!

Bach - fra et mekka af røveriske gadgets, der har vokset sig små, mobilregner der SKAL betales og samtaler der aldrig blev ført, pga. det dersens SMS!

Nearly 75 years ago, Harvey C. Fletcher and Wilden A. Munson—two Bell Labs engineers studying various aspects of subjective loudness—changed the way in which the world understands the hearing process. Their research asked a large number of subjects to compare the relative volume of two tones to a standard 1kHz tone at a set level. Averaging the results collected from the group, Fletcher and Munson defined of human hearing awareness at various frequencies.

In a landmark paper published in the October, 1933 edition of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Fletcher and Munson showed that hearing is frequency selective, more specifically, hearing is most sensitive to pure tones in the 3,000 to 4,000 Hz range and less so above and below that. to perceive that a 100Hz signal is of equal loudness to a 3,000Hz tone, requires an actual SPL of the 100Hz tone that's much higher than that of the 3kHz tone, particularly at low volumes.

The phenomenon was referred to as "Equal-Loudness Contours," and although this original research was later updated and refined (most notably by D. W. Robinson and R. S. Dadson in 1956), Fletcher and Munson's pioneering work laid the groundwork for creating industry-standard measurement curves, from the classic A/B/C/D-weighting filters to the current ISO 226:1987 standard.

Wilden Munson continued his acoustical research at Bell Labs until retiring in 1962. Harvey Fletcher worked on a number of projects at Bell Labs, including the development of a vacuum tube-based hearing aid and helped found the Acoustical Society of America, serving as its first president.

A pesquisa foi apresentada na OFC/NFOEC [Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition / National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference], conferência que acontece em San Diego, Califórnia.

O teste foi realizado pela Bell Labs em Villarceaux, na França, e supervisionado pelo laboratório III-V Lab, da Alcatel, e pela Kylia, uma companhia de soluções ópticas. A Alcatel explicou que foram utilizadas diversas tecnologias para que a transmissão fosse bem sucedida, incluindo um fotorreceptor optoeletrônico balanceado, altamente linear, e um mixer ultra-compacto coerente e termo-insensível.

Diferentes componentes podem ser utilizados em benefício de uma alta velocidade em redes, como um receptor integrado 1.000 vezes menor que os receptores existentes hoje, o que pode reduzir o custo e tamanho de componentes 100 Gbit/s; um modulador de polarização dual com um fluxo de dados de 40 Gbit/s em cada uma das duas polarizações; e outro tipo de modulador que produz sinais no formato 16-QAM (QAM, modulação de amplitude em quadratura, na sigla em inglês).

It's hard to say when the electronics age started, but William Sturgeon's 1825 development of the electromagnet laid the seeds that led to Joseph Henry's crude telegraph in 1830, which was the first electrical system used to communicate over long distances (a mile). Just 14 years later, Samuel Morse sent a message by telegraph over a 40-mile link he had strung between Washington DC and Baltimore.

Considering the primitive nature of telegraphy at the time, it's astonishing just how quickly the demand grew. By 1851 Western Union was in business, and in the same decade Cyrus Field had connected the Old and New Worlds via a fragile cable that failed a mere three weeks after the first message was sent. But later attempts succeeded. Instantaneous transatlantic communication quickly lost its novelty.

Although Alexander Graham Bell's 1875 invention of the telephone is universally lauded today, it was a less than practical device till Thomas Edison came up with the carbon microphone two years later. The speaker's voice modulated a pack of carbon granules, changing the circuit's resistance and thus sending a signal to the receiver.

A number of inventors soon came up with the idea of wireless transmission, codified by Guglielmo Marconi's 1896 patent and subsequent demonstrations. Like the telephone and telegraph early radios used neither CPUs, transistors, nor vacuum tubes. Marconi, drawing on the work of others, particularly Nikola Tesla, used a high voltage and spark gap to induce electromagnetic waves into a coil and an antenna. The signals, impossibly noisy by today's standards, radiated all over the spectrum . . . but they worked. In fact, Titanic's famous SOS was broadcast using a 5 KW spark gap set manufactured by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company.

The circuits were electrical, not electronic.

Telephone signals, though, degraded quickly over distance while radio remained crude and of limited range. The world desperately needed devices that could control the flow of the newly discovered electron. About this time Ambrose Fleming realized that the strange flow of electricity in a vacuum Edison had stumbled on could rectify an alternating current, which has the happy benefit of detecting radio waves. He invented the first simple vacuum tube diode. But it didn't find much commercial success due to high costs and the current needed by the filament.

Links:  http://embedded.com/columns/breakpoint/204300309

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More info at: engadget, EE Times, GigaOM.