One of four states of matter (solid, liquid, plasma and gas). The plasma state is a gas that is heated to the point where it begins to release electrons. Although plasma occurs naturally on the sun and other stars, it is artificially produced in fluorescent lights and plasma displays by electrically charging a gas in order to release ultraviolet light. See plasma display and flat panel TV.
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- NFS Balls02 1.1 (Windows)
- A new free screensaver of colorful balls on a black background. Several blue balls of different size are jumping up and down, the background is black. The screensaver is initially designed to prevent damage to CRTs and plasma computer monitors by blanking the screen or filling it with moving images...
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- NFS Clock02 1.1 (Windows)
- The square classical clock on the blue background with geometrical figures. The screensaver is initially designed to prevent damage to CRTs and plasma computer monitors by blanking the screen or filling it with moving images or patterns when the computer is not in use. The screen saver starts automatically if...
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- NFS Camels 1.1 (Windows)
- A new bright free screensaver called Camels from a collection of free screensavers. Three dark cartoon camels on a yellow background. The screensaver is initially designed to prevent damage to CRT and plasma computer monitors by blanking the screen or filling it with moving images or patterns when the computer...
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- Newegg's Black Friday sale starts with LG, Sharp and Samsung HDTV deals
- Newegg has kicked off its Black Friday festivities a little early, and the site is straining with the traffic surge. If you can actually get onto the site, you'll find a bunch of deals on HDTVs from brands like LG, Sharp and Samsung. While Samsung sets are well-represented in the...
- Blog posts 2009-11-25
- Amazon's Black Friday HDTV deals include Panasonic plasmas
- SAMSUNG TV'sIt is shocking that anyone would suggest to buy any LCD or Plasma TV made by Samsung label in the USA. This brand has proven to be the largest failure of TV's many within the first year of use, and few if any repairs available anywhere in the USA....
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- Amazon's Black Friday HDTV deals include Panasonic plasmas
- Though only 6 percent of you said in our poll that you plan to shop at Amazon.com for an HDTV on Black Friday, I still thought I should point out the deals that the online retailing giant is offering. Unlike many of the other stores' Black Friday specials, Amazon has...
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- Turtle Beach Ear Force X41 - headset
- Wireless headphones have been around for a while, but it's only been in the past few years that quality has gotten high enough for discerning listeners to consider using them. Many manufacturers, for instance, have turned to infrared IR technology for wireless signal transmission, which powered the Turtle Beach X4...
- Product reviews 2009-11-20
- Logitech Harmony 700
- When Logitech released the Harmony One in early 2008, it instantly became one of our favorite universal remotes to date. But at $250, it wasn't exactly an impulse buy for the average consumer. With the Harmony 700, however, Logitech has delivered a model that offers the bulk of the...
- Product reviews 2009-11-18
- Wal-mart Black Friday deals on HDTVs, Blu-ray players begin to leak online
- As the 800-pound gorilla of retailing, Wal-mart can get away with teasing consumers before Black Friday, offering some early deals a couple of weeks ago, as well as even releasing some more today, like a 26-inch 720p Vizio LCD HDTV for $248 that will be available starting Saturday. Even worse,...
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- Black Friday '09: Motorola Cliq, $79; Samsung 50" plasma HDTV, $699; Sony 15" dual core laptop, $399
- Black Friday '09: Motorola Cliq, $79; Samsung 50" plasma HDTV, $699; Sony 1I'd love to score one of the 32" lcd tv's and that $399 sony laptop but I'll be out of town on Friday. That will make it a bit hard to travel with those items :-/If it's a...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Black Friday '09: Motorola Cliq, $79; Samsung 50" plasma HDTV, $699; Sony 15" dual core laptop, $399
- Have you seen ZDNet's Ultimate Guide to Black Friday 2009? We've added even more deals. by Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- Best Buy Black Friday ad leaks online. Here are the HDTV and Blu-ray deals.
- For electronics fans, the Holy Grail of Black Friday ads is the one from Best Buy, which can list more deals on laptops and home theater stuff than general retailers like Wal-mart and Target can squeeze into their circulars. Unfortunately, those deals are never as good as you hope—is this...
- Blog posts 2009-11-14
- EPA's Energy Star program continues to have teeth
- It wouldn't surprise me if the real motivation was...In a poor sales market, I'm wondering if many homeowners are looking for an edge and attempt to get certified just to have their home stand out when trying to sell it.people make a bigger difference than organizationsThis is good evidence for...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- NFS Clock04 1.1 (Windows)
- A new bright free screensaver with a round mechanical clock from a collection of free screensavers. The clock has three hands that indicate what time it is at the moment when the screen saver is on. This screensavers are initially designed to prevent damage to CRTs and plasma computer monitors...
- Software downloads 2009-11-11
- NowStat Cold Fusion 1.0 (Windows)
- Cold Fusion is an interesting puzzle game for free. Choose some identical plasma pieces and fuse them by left click. The goal for you is to collect as many points as possible in the given time. In the game, choose some identical plasma-pieces and fuse them by left-click. The more...
- Software downloads 2009-11-10
- NFS Cowboys Screensaver 1.1 (Windows)
- Three cowboys are crossing the field at dawn. A bright and contrasted image. NewFreeScreensavers.com offers screensavers of nature, natural phenomena, screensavers showing time, and others. The screensavers from are initially designed to prevent damage to CRT and plasma computer monitors by blanking the screen or filling it with moving images...
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- Wal-mart preempts Black Friday with HDTV specials this Saturday
- Every year, retailers' ads for Black Friday—the day after Thanksgiving and the unofficial starting of the holiday shopping season—manage to leak out a few weeks beforehand this year being no exception. And every year, said retailers freak out when the ads appear online, perhaps fearing that competitors could...
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- Gratuitous Space Battles demo (Windows)
- Gratuitous Space Battles is a strategy / management / simulation game that does away with all the base building and delays and gets straight to the meat and potatoes of science-fiction games : The big space battles fought by huge spaceships with tons of laser beams and things going zap!,...
- Software downloads 2009-11-04
- LG 60PS80
- Photo gallery: LG PS80 seriesWhen it was announced at CES 2009, the LG PS80 series of plasma TVs earned one of our three nominations for Best of CES in the TV category. We've already reviewed the other two sets--Panasonic's G10 plasmas and Vizio's VF551XVT LED-based LCD--and both scored...
- Product reviews 2009-11-02
- LG 50PS80
- Photo gallery: LG PS80 seriesWhen it was announced at CES 2009, the LG PS80 series of plasma TVs earned one of our three nominations for Best of CES in the TV category. We've already reviewed the other two sets--Panasonic's G10 plasmas and Vizio's VF551XVT LED-based LCD--and both scored...
- Product reviews 2009-11-02
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