The Caucus: For Obama, Brevity Is Not the Soul of Twitter

The one thing that President Obama?s Twitter town hall was not? A test of his ability to answer in 140 characters.

For more than an hour, Mr. Obama took questions sent in via Twitter, but answered them the old fashioned way ? verbally.

Questions came over Twitter, submitted with the hashtag #AskObama. But they were read aloud by Jack Dorsey, Twitter?s co-founder and executive chairman, and answered by Mr. Obama as if he were being interviewed for a television news broadcast.

For Mr. Obama, that meant answers of hundreds, even thousands of characters ? a clear violation of basic Twitter etiquette, if not the specific rules of Wednesday?s town hall format.

It was clear from the early questions that Mr. Obama had no intention of trying to squeeze his answers down. He began his response to a question about the debt ceiling with a phrase that accurately suggested a lengthy answer.

?Let, me as quickly as I can, describe what?s at stake with the debt ceiling,? he started, and then started the rest of his answer with, ?Historically??

It took a while.

The questions focused primarily on economic factors, a reflection, Mr. Dorsey said, of the large interest in that subject among Twitter followers.

One asked about clean energy and jobs. Another asked what Mr. Obama would do differently, prompting an answer from the president about the difficulty of resolving the housing crisis. Several tweets followed up on the housing issue, urging the president to do more to help people in trouble with their mortgages.

?Most of this is going to be a function of the market slowly improving as people start having confidence in the economy,? Mr. Obama said in response to a question about the free market and housing. ?Given the size of the housing market, no federal program is going to be able to solve the housing market.?

Somehow among the tens of thousands of regular Americans, a couple of especially non-regular people got to ask questions.

House Speaker John A. Boehner got to ask Mr. Obama ?where are the jobs,? a question that he probably put to the president during a previously secret meeting at the White House over the weekend.

?Obviously, John?s the speaker of the house,? Mr. Obama said, smiling. ?He?s a Republican and so, this is a slightly skewed question. But what he?s right about is that we have not seen fast enough job growth relative to the need.?

And then there was a question from Nicholas D. Kristof, a columnist for The New York Times, who asked why Mr. Obama did not get Republicans to agree to an increase in the nation?s debt limit during budget talks at the end of last year.

Mr. Obama called Mr. Kristof ?a great columnist,? but added gently that ?that wasn?t the deal that was available.?

Some ordinary Twitter followers were not happy at questions being posed by the powerful and well-connected.

?Kristof & Boehner questions poor judgment,? said one Twitter message. ?Do NYT reporters and Speaker of the House have too little access to POTUS??

Most of the Twitter queries were not very tough-minded and gave the president the opportunity to repeat his talking points.

He answered several questions about taxes by saying that millionaires and billionaires should be willing to see their taxes go up. He listed his administration?s efforts to help small businesses. And he talked about trying to help veterans coming back from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan find jobs at home.

At the beginning of the hour, Mr. Obama offered his own question, asking Twitter followers how they thought the government should help reduce the deficit. The answers were fairly predictable.

Several suggested cuts in defense spending and ethanol subsidies. They said the government should keep spending on education, and they offered that Mr. Obama should stop sending money to corrupt governments. One suggested ending welfare programs.

For the most part, Mr. Obama agreed, though he defended the government?s role in helping people and said defense spending should be cut carefully.

In the end, Mr. Obama?s questions were pretty typical. 

But one thing that did change: the length of the questions. Washington is a town where reporters are famous for their sometimes rambling, three-part questions during presidential news conferences. Maybe if they had to ask their questions in 140 characters, more questions could be asked.

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HTC to acquire S3 Graphics for $300 million

HTC announced today that it has agreed to acquire S3 Graphics from VIA Technologies and WTI Investment in a deal worth $300 million. Expected to close at the end of this year, the transaction is still pending regulatory approval and would see HTC obtain all outstanding shares of S3 Graphics along with the firm's intellectual property and associated patents. Although the patents will technically change hands, HTC will grant VIA free access to the IPs. VIA will receive $147 million and WTI will bag the remaining $153 million.

Founded in 1989, S3 doesn't grab many headlines these days. The outfit is most recognized for its TRIO 2D graphics cards but slipped off the map toward the late 90s after some missteps during the rise of 3D graphics. S3's chips were generally a notch below competing products and by 2001 the firm decided to sell its business to VIA for $323 million. Naturally, VIA went on to incorporate S3's technology in its various embedded solutions.

HTC hasn't clearly outlined what it intends to do with S3, but many believe the handset maker will use the graphics firm's portfolio of 235 patents as legal leverage against others in the smartphone space. S3 recently filed a patent infringement suit against Apple and on July 1, an International Trade Commission judge ruled in S3's favor, determining that Apple infringed on two patents involving image compression and data formats.

Legal maneuvering and patent shenaniganry aside, HTC might also have plans to develop its own system-on-a-chip (such as Apple's A4 and A5), but the company doesn't currently have a license to make ARM-based processors. Time will tell.

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Obama Summons G.O.P. and Democratic Leaders for Deficit Reduction Talks

Mr. Obama, who met secretly with Speaker John A. Boehner at the White House on Sunday to try to advance the talks, called House and Senate leaders from both parties to the White House for further negotiations on Thursday. And he rejected talk of an interim deal that would get the government past a looming deadline on raising the federal debt limit without settling some of the longer-term issues contributing to the government?s fiscal imbalances.

?We?ve got a unique opportunity to do something big, to tackle our deficit in a way that forces our government to live within its means,? he said in an appearance in the White House briefing room, casting himself as much an honest broker as a partisan participant in the talks. ?This will require both parties to get out of our comfort zones, and both parties to agree on real compromise.?

Mr. Obama?s previously undisclosed Sunday meeting with Mr. Boehner suggests that the talks are entering a critical phase. There were also intense staff-level negotiations between the White House and Congress over the details of a multi-trillion-dollar package of spending cuts that could clear the way for a vote to raise the debt ceiling, constrain the growth of government and radically reshape the role of government in American society.

The two sides remain in a deadlock over the president?s insistence that the package contain tax increases as well as spending cuts. While Mr. Obama did not retreat from that demand Tuesday, he coupled it with a pledge to take on spending in ?entitlement programs,? a promise likely to unsettle many Democrats.

While a broad-based agreement may appeal to the White House, neither Senate Republicans nor Democrats may be as eager to embrace one. Democrats worry that a deal that cuts Medicare could rob them of what they see as their political advantage on the issue; Republicans trying to win the majority next year might not like an agreement that is seen as giving Democrats credibility on reducing the deficit.

But Mr. Boehner, while again saying that higher taxes were a nonstarter, expressed pleasure at Mr. Obama?s willingness to single out entitlements. ?I?m pleased the president stated today that we need to address the big, long-term challenges facing our country,? he said in a statement.

The speaker?s session with Mr. Obama was their first face-to-face encounter since the talks presided over by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. collapsed last month, officials with knowledge of the meeting said, though the speaker and the president also met privately just before those discussions broke up.

The substance of their talks was not disclosed. But Mr. Boehner?s meeting was evidently made known to other House and Senate Republican leaders.

Mr. Obama said the two sides needed to reach a deal within two weeks to pass legislation before Aug. 2, when the Treasury Department says the government risks defaulting on its debt. And he restated that Congress should not procrastinate and let negotiations ?come down to the last second.?

Senate Republicans have suggested in recent days that a ?mini-deal? be struck, which would allow the government to get past the Aug. 2 deadline but leave the larger fiscal choices to be thrashed out in the 2012 election.

The president rejected that, saying: ?I don?t think the American people sent us here to avoid tough problems. That?s, in fact, what drives them nuts about Washington, when both parties simply take the path of least resistance.?

Still, Mr. Obama eased his tone noticeably from his feisty news conference last week, in which he compared the work habits of lawmakers unfavorably with those of his daughters, Malia and Sasha.

?It?s my hope that everybody?s going to leave their ultimatums at the door, that we?ll all leave our political rhetoric at the door,? he said.

Mr. Obama also eschewed a populist tone, making no reference to ?millionaires and billionaires? or owners of corporate jets, even as he spoke of the necessity of eliminating tax breaks and loopholes.

The budget impasse is dominating the White House and Congress. With Republicans protesting that the Senate should be concentrating on fiscal issues this week, Senator Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat and majority leader, conceded the point on Tuesday and abruptly called off a planned debate on Libya.

After complaints by Republicans that their Fourth of July break had been canceled to deal with the debt-limit fight and not Libya, Mr. Reid essentially threw in the towel and said the Senate would instead take nonbinding votes later this week on how to address the debt-limit dispute.

?Notwithstanding the broad support for the Libya resolution, the most important thing to focus on this week is the budget,? Mr. Reid said.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, restated his opposition to any budget deal containing new taxes. He accused Democrats of a ?cheap attempt? at making Republicans look bad by saying that Republicans refused to consider ending a tax break for corporate jets.

Senate Democratic leaders last week called off their planned Fourth of July break due to the Aug. 2 deadline. But the budget talks are occurring mainly off the floor in leadership offices and at the White House so Mr. Reid scheduled the bipartisan Libya resolution for floor debate.

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Israel to Get Electric Car Battery Swap Stations

Next month, Better Place, a startup based in California, will begin selling electric cars in Israel that come with subscription packages that include a leased battery and the cost of recharging it. Gasoline is expensive and taxes on gas-powered cars are high in Israel, and the company says the packages could make owning an electric car 20 percent cheaper than owning a gasoline-powered car.

Better Place is trying to solve the biggest challenge to the widespread adoption of electric cars: the limitations imposed by battery chemistry. A battery big enough to give an electric car the same range as the average gas car would be far too large and expensive; and recharging battery packs takes hours at standard outlets, compared to the minutes it takes to refuel a conventional car.

Better Place will sell a new electric sedan made by Renault that has a range of just over 100 miles on a charge?enough for most daily commutes. For longer trips, Better Place provides battery swap stations, where an automated system switches out a depleted battery for a fully-charged one in less than five minutes. Instead of owning the batteries, the car owners buy subscriptions for a certain number of kilometers of driving per year. They can choose from several plans, much the same way mobile phone owners subscribe to minutes.

The size of Israel limits the number of swap stations needed. What's more, high taxes on gas-powered cars, as well as high prices for gasoline (about $8 a gallon), should help make electric cars more attractive.

Better Place offers one package that includes the cost of the car and three years of driving 25,000 kilometers per year for $46,000. The company says this price amounts to a 35 percent savings over buying and fueling a gas car in Israel over three years. Other packages include a cost of about $36,000 for the car, with monthly subscription fees ranging from $320 to $470 a month for 20,000 to 30,000 kilometers of driving per year, respectively. For both packages, the price includes the installation of a charging station at home.

Michael Granoff, head of oil dependence policies at Better Place, says the company has 20,000 individual customers on a waiting list to buy the cars, and 70,000 tentative orders from fleet customers. "That's nearly half the car market for Israel," he says.

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Here?s Google for iOS running on an iPhone 4

Our only gripe about Google+ via iOS right now is that we don?t have a native app. We?re told that it?s been submitted and it?s awaiting Apple?s approval, but of course we want to know what it looks like.

Fortunately, we?ve been able to acquire a (somewhat blurry) image from a Google Hangout thanks to Googler Hiraldo Hierro?s extreme close-up with the app:

We have to send our hat tip over to Ryan Lowdermilk at Windows Phone Dev Podcast whose quick thinking got him the screenshot.

The app appears to be almost identical in design to the Android version, which is a very good thing. The native Android app is highly functional without any mess and that?s exactly what we want to see on iOS as well.

Here?s another, clearer shot of the app on an iPhone 4, from over at Newsden:

Now, Apple, can you please just let the thing get approved so we can enjoy it instead of just looking at it?

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Hard Lines iPhone Review

Hard Lines iPhone Review

Posted on 26th Jun 2011 at 10:44 by David Hing with 9 comments

Back when mobile phones were still thought of as a new idea, Nokia's 3210 was highly sought after in many circles for its built in version of the highly addictive game Snake. Fast forward a decade, and Hard Lines is attempting to be a worthy successor to that classic title.

The mechanics of Hard Lines are simple. With simple directional strokes of your finger, you steer a line around the screen towards randomly spawning markers, accruing points while avoiding other lines that enter from the sides of the screen.

Slick and neatly designed, Hard Lines is clearly influenced by the Light Cycles from Tron, yet it doesn't limit itself to that one style of play; there are several variations. In some modes, you gain points by getting opposing lines to crash into you or the walls; in others you race against the clock, or just try to last for as long as possible. There are also some good bonuses, such as the occasional power up that enables you to crash through any other competing lines without killing yourself.


The gameplay is occasionally made overly complicated, however, via the addition of dialogue that bikes may utter in the middle of a match. This appears as a single line of text and, while it's often funny, it's usually just a distraction that obscures your view.

Aside from this, though, the balancing is beautiful and the game manages to be both punishing and forgiving at once. Each line is only a single pixel wide, for example, but you only need to pass near an item on the screen to collect it, avoiding any frustrating situations where you might end up circling it forever. Not only this, but the very narrow nature of your line means the game can afford to throw a lot of competing lines at you at any one time. In particular, the Gauntlet mode continually spawns large numbers of other lines rapidly, resulting in an intense session that's highly satisfying when it goes your way.

Verdict: Hard Lines is a well designed, easily controlled, multifaceted version of Snake with enough new material and creativity behind it to stop it being called a straightforward clone.

Hard Lines is available from the AppStore for 59p / 99c.

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Obama Summons G.O.P. and Democratic Leaders for Deficit Reduction Talks

Mr. Obama, who met secretly with Speaker John A. Boehner at the White House on Sunday to try to advance the talks, called House and Senate leaders from both parties to the White House for further negotiations on Thursday. And he rejected talk of an interim deal that would get the government past a looming deadline on raising the federal debt limit without settling some of the longer-term issues contributing to the government?s fiscal imbalances.

?We?ve got a unique opportunity to do something big, to tackle our deficit in a way that forces our government to live within its means,? he said in an appearance in the White House briefing room, casting himself as much an honest broker as a partisan participant in the talks. ?This will require both parties to get out of our comfort zones, and both parties to agree on real compromise.?

Mr. Obama?s previously undisclosed Sunday meeting with Mr. Boehner suggests that the talks are entering a critical phase. There were also intense staff-level negotiations between the White House and Congress over the details of a multi-trillion-dollar package of spending cuts that could clear the way for a vote to raise the debt ceiling, constrain the growth of government and radically reshape the role of government in American society.

The two sides remain in a deadlock over the president?s insistence that the package contain tax increases as well as spending cuts. While Mr. Obama did not retreat from that demand Tuesday, he coupled it with a pledge to take on spending in ?entitlement programs,? a promise likely to unsettle many Democrats.

While a broad-based agreement may appeal to the White House, neither Senate Republicans nor Democrats may be as eager to embrace one. Democrats worry that a deal that cuts Medicare could rob them of what they see as their political advantage on the issue; Republicans trying to win the majority next year might not like an agreement that is seen as giving Democrats credibility on reducing the deficit.

But Mr. Boehner, while again saying that higher taxes were a nonstarter, expressed pleasure at Mr. Obama?s willingness to single out entitlements. ?I?m pleased the president stated today that we need to address the big, long-term challenges facing our country,? he said in a statement.

The speaker?s session with Mr. Obama was their first face-to-face encounter since the talks presided over by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. collapsed last month, officials with knowledge of the meeting said, though the speaker and the president also met privately just before those discussions broke up.

The substance of their talks was not disclosed. But Mr. Boehner?s meeting was evidently made known to other House and Senate Republican leaders.

Mr. Obama said the two sides needed to reach a deal within two weeks to pass legislation before Aug. 2, when the Treasury Department says the government risks defaulting on its debt. And he restated that Congress should not procrastinate and let negotiations ?come down to the last second.?

Senate Republicans have suggested in recent days that a ?mini-deal? be struck, which would allow the government to get past the Aug. 2 deadline but leave the larger fiscal choices to be thrashed out in the 2012 election.

The president rejected that, saying: ?I don?t think the American people sent us here to avoid tough problems. That?s, in fact, what drives them nuts about Washington, when both parties simply take the path of least resistance.?

Still, Mr. Obama eased his tone noticeably from his feisty news conference last week, in which he compared the work habits of lawmakers unfavorably with those of his daughters, Malia and Sasha.

?It?s my hope that everybody?s going to leave their ultimatums at the door, that we?ll all leave our political rhetoric at the door,? he said.

Mr. Obama also eschewed a populist tone, making no reference to ?millionaires and billionaires? or owners of corporate jets, even as he spoke of the necessity of eliminating tax breaks and loopholes.

The budget impasse is dominating the White House and Congress. With Republicans protesting that the Senate should be concentrating on fiscal issues this week, Senator Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat and majority leader, conceded the point on Tuesday and abruptly called off a planned debate on Libya.

After complaints by Republicans that their Fourth of July break had been canceled to deal with the debt-limit fight and not Libya, Mr. Reid essentially threw in the towel and said the Senate would instead take nonbinding votes later this week on how to address the debt-limit dispute.

?Notwithstanding the broad support for the Libya resolution, the most important thing to focus on this week is the budget,? Mr. Reid said.

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, restated his opposition to any budget deal containing new taxes. He accused Democrats of a ?cheap attempt? at making Republicans look bad by saying that Republicans refused to consider ending a tax break for corporate jets.

Senate Democratic leaders last week called off their planned Fourth of July break due to the Aug. 2 deadline. But the budget talks are occurring mainly off the floor in leadership offices and at the White House so Mr. Reid scheduled the bipartisan Libya resolution for floor debate.

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Israel to Get Electric Car Battery Swap Stations

Next month, Better Place, a startup based in California, will begin selling electric cars in Israel that come with subscription packages that include a leased battery and the cost of recharging it. Gasoline is expensive and taxes on gas-powered cars are high in Israel, and the company says the packages could make owning an electric car 20 percent cheaper than owning a gasoline-powered car.

Better Place is trying to solve the biggest challenge to the widespread adoption of electric cars: the limitations imposed by battery chemistry. A battery big enough to give an electric car the same range as the average gas car would be far too large and expensive; and recharging battery packs takes hours at standard outlets, compared to the minutes it takes to refuel a conventional car.

Better Place will sell a new electric sedan made by Renault that has a range of just over 100 miles on a charge?enough for most daily commutes. For longer trips, Better Place provides battery swap stations, where an automated system switches out a depleted battery for a fully-charged one in less than five minutes. Instead of owning the batteries, the car owners buy subscriptions for a certain number of kilometers of driving per year. They can choose from several plans, much the same way mobile phone owners subscribe to minutes.

The size of Israel limits the number of swap stations needed. What's more, high taxes on gas-powered cars, as well as high prices for gasoline (about $8 a gallon), should help make electric cars more attractive.

Better Place offers one package that includes the cost of the car and three years of driving 25,000 kilometers per year for $46,000. The company says this price amounts to a 35 percent savings over buying and fueling a gas car in Israel over three years. Other packages include a cost of about $36,000 for the car, with monthly subscription fees ranging from $320 to $470 a month for 20,000 to 30,000 kilometers of driving per year, respectively. For both packages, the price includes the installation of a charging station at home.

Michael Granoff, head of oil dependence policies at Better Place, says the company has 20,000 individual customers on a waiting list to buy the cars, and 70,000 tentative orders from fleet customers. "That's nearly half the car market for Israel," he says.

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Romney Questioned on Critique of Economy Under Obama

But as Mr. Romney has finally started to campaign in earnest over the past couple of weeks, the dangers of his perceived leading status are coming into view, with a more intense focus on his every word. And in the past few days, it has revolved around three words in particular: ?things are worse.?

During his campaign swing through this crucial state this week, Mr. Romney has been faced with repeated questions about the consistency of his commentary on President Obama?s handling of the recession and the subsequent economic recovery.

To recap: On Thursday, when asked by a journalist in Pennsylvania to jibe his assertions that ?things are worse? under Mr. Obama with various signs of economic improvement since the president took office, Mr. Romney replied, ?I didn?t say things are worse,? adding, ?What I said was the economy hasn?t turned around.? Democrats accused him of ?flip-flopping? on a central assertion of his candidacy.

Attending Fourth of July festivities in New Hampshire on Monday, Mr. Romney reasserted that ?the recession is deeper because of our president? and that the recovery was more anemic because of him as well. (The recession was declared officially over as of June 2009, but the recovery, especially in employment, has been weak and inconsistent.)

At a town-hall-style meeting on Tuesday in his vacation town of Wolfeboro, N.H., Mr. Romney filled out his economic case against Mr. Obama, saying his early moves scared businesses out of spending money and hiring. He cited Mr. Obama?s ultimately abandoned pursuit of cap-and-trade environmental legislation and financial sector regulatory changes as being among the culprits.

His latest formulation on Mr. Obama and the economy raised a new question from a reporter at a briefing at the Galley Hatch restaurant here, where he had met with friendly local officials and small-business owners to discuss their economic troubles. Given that Mr. Romney has used a present-tense formulation to say, for instance, ?the recession is deeper? and the recovery slower because of Mr. Obama, the reporter asked, ?Is it your view that it?s possible to be both in recession and recovery at the same time??

?The technical term of the recession is not the one that I think the American people recognize,? Mr. Romney said, defining that as ?a shrinking G.D.P.? Rather, he said, ?I think most of the American people understand that we?re still feeling the effects of the recession and that the recovery that comes from a recession, which has been under way for some time, has not occurred as they would have expected it to occur.?

Democrats have tried to use Mr. Romney?s shifts in wording to raise a theme that has dogged him since his presidential campaign four years ago ? inconsistency ? issuing news release after news release pointing out his latest comments, including one Tuesday that read, ?Romney Flip-Flops at N.H. Town Hall.?

Advisers to Mr. Romney said they were hardly fretting, arguing that the whole flare-up has kept the debate right where they want it, on the slowness of the recovery and Mr. Romney?s critique of Mr. Obama.

As Kevin Madden, an informal adviser and Mr. Romney?s campaign spokesman in 2008, put it, ?They?re actually spending time litigating whether the economy is worse under Obama, or if it?s just bad.?

Of course, before Mr. Romney can truly focus on Mr. Obama he has a few other people to worry about: the other major Republican candidates who are not exactly ready to cede the nomination to him just yet.

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Samsung grabs 60 percent of US 3D TV market

Samsung Electronics America has announced that it has surpassed the 60 percent market share threshold in the US 3D TV market, which includes both LED and Plasma televisions. As a result, Samsung has established a commanding lead when it comes to 3D TVs in the US, according to revenue and unit sell-through data from market research company the NPD Group.

Specifically, between May 22, 2011 and June 18, 2011, Samsung had a unit and dollar share of 61 percent in the 3D TV market. In addition, the electronics giant had over 50 percent unit and dollar market share between April 2011 and May 2011.

Unfortunately, 3D TVs are still expensive and consumers aren't buying them very quickly. As a result, Samsung is offering a deal: if you purchase a qualified 2011 Samsung 3D TV from a participating authorized retailer, you will receive two pairs of 3D Active glasses (model SSG-3100GB) free of charge, directly from the retailer. Furthermore, Samsung also recently lowered prices on its complete line of glasses. The battery operated 3D Active glasses are now $50.

"Clearly consumers are voting with their wallets and choosing the TV that provides a superior 3D experience," John Revie, senior vice president of Home Entertainment at Samsung Electronics America, said in a statement. "Samsung 3D TVs can deliver Full HD 3D, but a TV isn't just about 3D. We also are leaders in design with our gorgeous TVs, and leaders in connected TV with our hugely popular Samsung Apps platform. Consumers don't need to compromise when they choose a Samsung TV."

Unlike other approaches to 3D, Samsung's Active 3D Technology delivers up to double the resolution Full HD image (1080p picture for each eye), a wider viewing angle, and no black lines interfering with the picture. Still, you have to wear the glasses. I honestly don't think 3D TVs will hit mass adoption until one of the many sans-glasses technologies becomes standard.

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