Tag: RECORDS

Making its first high-minded and forward-thinking move in recent memory, Universal Music Group has donated 200,000 master recordings to the Library of Congress. A boon to the Library's 3 million-strong collection of recordings, the discs and tapes, from the 20's through the 40's, will be digitized -- many for the first time. We foresee an exhibit at the Smithsonian: "For the Record: The Last Time ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. The pixel is the new Ben-Day dot for 21st-century Lichtensteins. Seeing as nearly 100-percent of our media culture is transmitted through the pixel, it comes as no ...

Don't tell Japanese professor Yojiro Ishino that less is more. On November 24, Ishino and his students at the Nagoya Institute of Technology were rewarded for their excessive creation -- a camera with 158 lenses. According to Crunch Gear, the invention was recently certified by Guinness World Records as having more lenses than any other camera in the world. The lenses are lined up in four rows ...

That loud, persistent drone that you've been hearing for the past few years was just the collective lament of music purists everywhere. As the CD age has given way to the MP3 era, people of generations past have been bemoaning what they perceived as the demise of vinyl, and its irreproducible sound experience. It turns out, though, that commercially, at least, vinyl is alive and well. It just may ...

A couple of very bored Pennsylvania men decided to gun for the world record number of text messages sent in a month, and, over the next four weeks, went about clogging the airwaves with 217,000 SMS messages. The pair, Nick Andes, 29, and Doug Klinger, 30, were a little shocked, however, when T-Mobile went about clogging Andes's mail box with a $26,000 cell phone bill. Despite having an unlimited ...

Living in a digital world was supposed to mean that all information would be at our fingertips at all times, for the rest of time. Unfortunately, things aren't quite working out that way; many historians fear that lots of material is being lost to a digital black hole, thanks to the high turnover of information on the Internet. Lynne Brindley, head of the British Library, points to two sites, ...

A woman in England has been using the same pacemaker for over 25 years. According to Guiness World Records, it is the longest lasting pacemaker in the world. Leslie Iles, from Essex, England, had the pacemaker implanted after repeatedly fainting and falling. After a series of tests, doctors realized that her heart was beating a mere 30 times a minute. That is half of a normal heart rate. Most ...

Hooray! As we reported last year, vinyl, our favorite music format, is rumored to be making a comeback. A recent CNN article asserts that from 2006 to 2007, manufacturers' shipments of LPs increased by 36%, while shipments of CDs dropped over 17%. In your face, CDs and MP3s! Hard-core music aficionados laud the analog sound delivered by records as more continuous and superior to digital ...

Despite what many of us predicted, 'American Idol' has not only just survived, but has gotten more popular as it continues its march through our pop-culture consciousness. Proof of that fact may lie in recent news from AT&T that this season of 'American Idol' broke text-messaging records by generating 78 million text messages through votes, trivia contests and other SMS content. This ...