Looks like the next cool thing is going to be solar powered home theater. Richard Glikes, ultra tech guru and exec director at Home Theater Specialists of America (HTSA) is all over the Internet with his favorite green living home technology. The state-of-the-tech system is powered with solar energy provided by roof-mounted panels that produce, in sunshine, 700 watts of power per hour. Engadget says it should run things for nearly a full day without help from the traditional power grid. Electronic House magazine online reports it a little differently, saying the panels will provide 19 hours of viewing pleasure per...

Let's get down to some basics - a quick 101 course in gadgets. What are the slickest, most popular and what do they do? Read on, Baby Boomer and let us introduce HDTV, smartphones, GIS and GPS. We're doing this strictly in the interest of economic stimulus - when you understand it all, you can go buy it all, right? HDTV - a micro-primer HDTV means High Definition Television. HDTV (or simply HD) and DTV (Digital Television) are not the same. On June 12, 2009 all US TV broadcasters were required to complete the switchover to DTV equipment (which didn't go...

We may all spend a lot of winter time indoors - so check out Internet Movie Data Base, a long-established information portal for movie information of any sort. This fast loading film resource has no bells and gimmicks, just real info about movie stars, film title, plots, tehcnical data - anything you want to know about movies. You can sign up and reigster for a free account to give you access to conversations and forums where you can actually post a review or comment. You can just visit, plug in the name of an actor, director or title and find out anything...

The question of pricey Blu-Ray over about-to-be-has-been DVD is on my plate. I moved from Mississippi to Illinois recently and, for some reason, my DVD player didn't turn up. It was a good one, a Sony, with up-conversion which is the ability for the player to read standard programming into a sort of high-def clone. I have to decide where I want to put my money right now in times of recession, holiday spending, and the fledgling nature of Blu-Ray players. I can't afford an expensive Blu-Ray. I don't own any Blu-Ray discs. I have a couple hundred DVDs. I researched the opinions and...