You may be thinking of Hill Type 1 Plasmatronics that were $10k a pair back in the late 70s. The tweeters were both amazing and possibly hazardous to your health due to the ozone emitted into the room. The sound from the other drivers in the speakers couldn't keep up with the tweeters, though, especially the woofers. And unfortunately the tube amps built in to drive them were horribly unreliable, and each speaker had a helium tank you would have to get filled once in a while. Not to mention cosmetics that made them look like cobbled together lab equipment, not something you would put in your living room.

Electrostatics that do real bass are by necessity large due to dipole cancellation. I own and sell Sound Lab electrostatics, which are some of the largest and most expensive of their type. While I will admit that a full range plasma speaker could potentially outperform an electrostatic, almost no full range plasma speakers have ever been built. In 1992 a French company showed a prototype full range cold air plasma speaker at the Consumer Electronics Show, but it never saw the light of day and the company went out of business. Nelson Pass of Threshold and Pass Labs had a full range plasma speaker but had to dismantle it due to the large amounts of ozone produced.

Jesse White, the Maytag repairman, died in January 1997. We live in an increasingly disposable world.

A patent application has been filed for "Single Seating Furniture Anger Relief System", submitted by, you guessed it, Steve Ballmer.

So where are Compuserve and AOL going to get all their customers?

Too late. He's got that covered.

For $450 I can buy a pretty decent office chair.

The day this becomes popular will be the day the US goes metric. Nuff sed.

Lanai. Aloha, Larry!

the honeymoon is over for Zuckerberg.

The use of H.P. is pretty rare. Nearly as bothersome is the use of H-P by the press. Nobody says I.B.M., do they? Then why H.P.? I've never owned an H.P. product or H-P product, but lots of HP calculators, printers, computers, etc.

He sounds like some kind of....oh wait, that's the company name.

Not until Sergei starts throwing chairs.

We're gonna rock around the clock tonight...

Because they wanted to make sure they got it right the first time?

All your data belong to us.