Awesome Television

There have been many attempts to create full-color ambient lighting for TV screens. Most of them have technical drawbacks or a high cost. CopGain aims to solve those with a value-priced kit that works with 4K HDMI video, has near-zero latency, and renders colors accurately. The Deluxe model works with screens up to 120″.

Well before Power Rangers or TNMT, Ultraman was a live-action TV series, establishing a new type of sci-fi adventure, kitschy kaiju characters, salarymen superheroes, and sparkly special effects. Rarely broadcast in America, it’s now streaming on Pluto TV with select titles on-demand on Shout! Factory TV.

Japanese electro-punk group Electronicos Fantasticos is known for making music with unusual instruments. In this clip, musician Ei Wada shows off an electronic guitar known as the “CRTelecaster” that uses feedback created from the screen of an old CRT television set to produce sounds. More CRT goodness here.

“The greatest advance in television since color television itself!” A hilariously kitschy time capsule of technology over 50 years ago – as RCA shows off its fancy 7-function wireless television remote control which it released back in 1961. Oh, the days before a “mute” button.

Auton’s Dream Machine lets you keep a big screen TV in your bedroom without taking up any wall, floor, or cabinet space. The trick is that it stores the TV under your bed frame, then telescopes and lifts up at the foot of the bed for viewing.

We’re currently in Tokyo for a few days, so there’s no better time to feature this hilarious bit of old Japanese TV in which they launched a series of car and truck tires down a ski ramp to see how far they would fly. We’re pretty sure this is how Katamari Damacy started.

The multitalented Daniel Koren (Walking Contest) put together this lighthearted arrangement of 20 memorable TV theme songs, brilliantly bridging between the tracks at times to create entirely new programs. (Thanks Daniel!)

Thinking about watching every episode of a show you’ve never seen? Nielsen put together this handy chart which helps you plan how many sick days you’ll need to take from work to catch up. We’re guessing this website came in handy.

Every time Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake get together it’s a crowd pleaser; their latest collaboration is no exception. Take a break for five minutes and luxuriate in their kooky choreography for Outkast and Drake.

Sometimes, when you’re just minding your own business, you get to witness good drama, like these folks did, courtesy of TNT’s ad campaign in a nondescript Belgian town square. (Thanks Dan!)

There was a time when one TV show would never dream of mentioning the existence of another. These days, however, it seems that all of these fake realities are connected in a giant Möbius loop.

Those loveable puppets over at Glove and Boots who tell it like it is have given us a fantastic and funny Christmas gift – a chronicle of the history of American television. (Thanks everyone!)

MTV has unveiled the first official footage from the long-awaited revival of Beavis and Butt-head. Series creator Mike Judge, who reprises his various roles, said the animation will be drawn by hand.

That’s right, thanks to NHK and Sharp, TV is going ultra. They showed off this LCD display that produces images with a resolution 16x greater than today’s HDTVs. 2020, please come faster.

Jacob Gilbreath made this gigantic slab of kinetic typography from Conan O’Brien’s unforgettable, inspiring and touching farewell message on the last episode of his stint at The Tonight Show.

Belgian premium cable network Prime promotes its impressive lineup of American TV shows with a truly inspiring montage of miniature dioramas, each representing a different series. Well done.

This razor-thin set has a massive 65″ LED edge-lit screen, and uses passive 3D glasses, eliminating costly active lenses and reducing headaches. 802.11n Wi-Fi and Internet apps are built-in too.

If you missed The Walking Dead’s brief, but epic 6-episode Season One, this supercut edited by Eric Linn sums up each and every zombie death in just 69-seconds. Wait, aren’t zombies already dead?