Flat panel TVs have spoiled us. It used to be that a big display took up a lot of room on your desk or living room because of the depth of the CRT’s electron gun. We wonder what the designers of the ...

Duck Hunt '', a game released by Nintendo for the Famicom in 1984, is a game in which players use a ray gun, also known as ``ZAPPER'' overseas, to shoot ducks flying on a TV screen. The Slow Mo Guys ...

Standard picture-tube TVs, the kind that the vast majority of Americans still buy, have long been video non grata at the Consumer Electronics Show. Seen as yesterday's technology, they have been ...

If you're reading this, you're an heir to a string of inventions stretching 170+ years Some of the older, mostly black-and-white TV models, based on the cathode-ray tube technology, which are now ...

Before the advent of flat-panel displays, cathode ray tubes were the mainstream. CRTs consist of a giant vacuum tube with an electron gun inside, which projects electron beams onto a phosphor screen ...

CERTAIN types of cathode-ray tubes in which the luminous spot on the fluorescent screen is moved by magnetic fields are liable to a peculiar defect, known as 'ion spot' or 'ion burn'. It is now ...

At my age I can remember television when it first started. Back then it was a tiny, round screen that provided a somewhat wavy black and white picture. Often the TV was in the same wooden cabinet as a ...

Barium platinocyanide. Sounds menacing. But it is a chemical that changed the world! For the better. The year was 1895 and Wilhelm Roentgen, professor of physics at the University of Wurzburg, was ...

SPIES won’t welcome the development of the world’s first flat-panel cathode ray tube, because they won’t find it so easy to sit outside a building and pick up the signals from a VDU inside. Instead of ...