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GE Drape-o-Matic

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GE Drape-O-Matic Welcome to the 1950s as the GE Drape-O-Matic is an automatic drape controller featured in the typical 1950s light blue. The product looks brand new and includes the original box with instructions and has been tested to work.

Mount this GE Drape-O-Matic on the wall and the drape string goes into a hole at the top and around a wheel that opens or shuts the drapes.

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Price: $4.99
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GE announces new LED light bulbs that last 17 years

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GE is continuing to push the technological envelope of light bulbs, announcing their next line of LED bulbs which have an even better eco-footprint than CFLs.

The GE Energy Smart LED bulb is a 40-watt (40w) replacement that will consumer 9 watts, produce just as much light as a 40W incandescent and last 17 years @ 4 hours per day (about 25 times as long).

The GE Energy Smart LEDs don’t contain any mercury and are cooler to the touch than either CFLs or incandescent bulbs.

These should be available in early 2011.

Full press release.

General Electric shows off optical disc storage breakthrough – 500GB disc

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Researchers at General Electric (G.E.) have announced a breakthrough in optical disc storage – 500GB on a single disc (the equivalent of about 100 DVDs using standard technology; Blu-ray discs can hold much more).  G.E. uses holographic storage techniques to achieve this capacity.

Despite the discovery, there is no telling if this will take off commercially at this point. It will be a matter of economics as to whether the technology can be brought to market at a price that consumers will be willing to pay.

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