Amar Bose – Aimed At Walls

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Amar Bose – Aimed At Walls

Bose VideoWave entertainment systemDr. Amar Bose, who changed the home loudspeaker industry in 1968 with his model 901 Direct/Reflecting loudspeaker system, passed away on Friday, July 12th. The Bose 901 incorporated speakers aimed at the walls instead of at the listener, unlike other hi-fi speakers made at that time. His company went on to make other familiar audio related devices such as headphones and TV’s, like the VideoWave , the inside of which is pictured here.

See the full New York Times obit here.

(Photo from PCWorld.)

Douglas Engelbart – Mouse Inventor

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Douglas Engelbart – Mouse Inventor

150px-douglas_engelbart_in_2008Ever since Little Charles showed me how he laid-out electronics racks in MacDraw, I have been enamored with the little box with the wire hanging out of it, an invention by Doug Englebart – the computer mouse.

Engelbart passed away on Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013 but his legacy is more than just the mouse. Inspired by the writing of Vannevar Bush, Engelbart envisioned workers sitting at computerized display stations, gathering information from various sources and harnessing workers’ collective intellect to solve problems together. Some of Engelbart’s ideas were further refined at Xerox PARC, and then again at Apple Computer.

Read Dr. Engelbart’s Obit and associated articles at the New York Times.

Bye Bye EUE

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Bye Bye EUE

One of the first places where I interviewed for a job has closed its doors. The New York EUE/Screen Gems studios (most recently home to the Rachel Ray show) will soon become the site of an apartment building according to one industry wag.

Update: Only the original location on East 44th Street closed. EUE New York is now located at 603 Greenwich Street.

Steve Rutt, Video Pioneer, Dead At 66

Steve Rutt, Video Pioneer, Dead At 66

Steve Rutt

From the New York Times:

“Steve Rutt, an engineer, inventor and artist whose early video animation system made images expand and contract and leap and dance, and in so doing helped propel the video-art revolution of the 1970s, died on May 20th in Manhattan.”

READ THE COMPLETE NY TIMES OBIT HERE.

Steve, who I knew through renting editing equipment from his company, was a respected member of the New York post-production community.

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE RUTT/ETRA Video Synthesizer CLICK HERE.

Jack LaLanne – TV Pioneer

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Jack LaLanne – TV Pioneer

Television pioneer Jack LaLanne has passed at the age of 96. Already well known in the Bay Area for his health spa (gym), “The Jack LaLanne Show” began in 1951 as a local program on San Francisco’s KGO-TV, and was carried nationally on ABC starting in 1959. LaLanne and his dog Happy encouraged kids (like me) to wake their moms and drag them in front of the set. His TV exercises used no special equipment, just household items like a chair and a towel.