Apparently GE has given up on the high-efficiency incandescent bulbs and is focusing on LED tech: http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2008/11/26/ge-suspends-development-of-high-efficiency-incandescent/

Even if the impact of this is exaggerated, the one positive outcome is education. The more media exposure the better. The target audience of 60 Minutes is not exactly geeks, but more likely grandparents that use their computers to see emailed pictures of their grandchildren. Andy Rooney probably doesn't tell them to run Windows update and maybe this will... or at least make them bother one of their geek children to make sure their computer is clean.

Yes, it was definitely a Les Paul that I saw him playing with the additional pickup and the little touchpad. Apparently his is not one of the new Gibsons that the article is about, but one from the company that they mention on the second page, Transperformance.

From September/October 2003 issue of Performing Songwriter:

http://www.performingsongwriter.com/pages/tools/extra_frampton.cfm

"In the "most unique and unusual" category is one of Frampton's Les Pauls that is fitted with the Transperformance self-tuning guitar system. The system comes with preset tunings, and you can store other tunings and recall them. "Some of the tunings are pretty phenomenal. There are tunings from Jimmy Page, Stephen Stills--all different tunings. I found a tuning in there that just blew me away, and it just inspired the beginnings of 'Mia Rose' [one of the tracks on NOW, written with Kimmie Rhodes].""