Home Theatre Buying Guide by Jeffrey Lawrence
Planning Watching a movie in your own home theater is a great way to escape reality without leaving the house. But before forging ahead with a home theater construction project, you’ll need to put serious time into planning the system. The biggest decision will be what room to put your home... Analog audio and video, digital audio and video, computer connections — just name it and it’s there, waiting for you to plug in. ... At the same time, the diversity of formats contained in the new digital standard has made TV technology more complicated than it used to be.

Informed Consent: Ethical Considerations of RFID by Sally Bacchetta
He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the wild elephant goes. Randolph Bourne Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has incubated in relative obscurity for over 60 years, quietly changing our lives with scant attention outside the technology community. ... Recognizing the potential commercial benefits of the technology, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) began developing retail applications of RFID in 1999. ... The technology can be set up so that identifying information is associated with the item, not with the people interacting with the item.