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Jim Henson

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Gender Male
Death34 years ago
Date of birth September 24,1936
Zodiac sign Libra
Born Greenville
Mississippi
United States
Date of died May 16,1990
DiedNew York Presbyterian Hospital
New York
United States
Spouse Jane Henson
Children Brian Henson
Lisa Henson
Cheryl Henson
Heather Henson
John Henson
Height 191 (cm)
Grandchildren Amelia Jane Henson
Sydney Henson
Katrina Henson
Elizabeth Finn
Ginger Otis
Julian Otis
Declan Finn
Parents Paul Ransom Henson
Betty Henson
Books Cookie Monster!
Elmo!
Ernie!
Influences Walt Disney
Edgar Bergen
Ernie Kovacs
Walt Kelly
Stan Freberg
Burr Tillstrom
Siblings Paul Henson, Jr.
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Jim Henson Life story


James Maury Henson was an American puppeteer, animator, cartoonist, actor, inventor, and filmmaker who achieved worldwide notability as the creator of the Muppets. Henson was also well-known for creating Fraggle Rock and as the director of The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.

CES 2020: preview tomorrow-tech show in Las Vegas

Feb 16,2020 5:46 am

How much tech can one take? Next week, the stretch your horizons as well as their credulity is to be introduced, as thousands of new products and demonstrated at the giant CES expo.

Artificial Intelligence , 5G, foldables, surveillance tech, 8K, and robotics are words in this year of the shock.

But trump Will expect to have to. The President of the disputes with China have led them to cancel some of The Communist country's largest tech firms or to reduce their participation at the event in Las Vegas. But the prospect of an upcoming trade deal, suggests to ease tensions, and better access to Chinese consumers.

Ivanka Trump - the US-leader - Daughter is also a "keynote" interview at CES boss Gary Shapiro.

This is not the First Time Ms Trump has represented the White house at a tech-themed event, He once because of "his racism and idiocy".

Now, Mr. Shapiro faces is criticism, to discuss for the invitation Ivanka "future of work". Critics claim you benefit from nepotism, while a better-qualified female tech champions to be overlooked.

But some of Silicon Valley 's most powerful women, Will take part.

Apple's chief privacy Jane Horvath makes a rare public appearance. It is the First Time your organization has formally CES involved, as it hawked its Newton handheld back in 1992.

to present In addition, ex-Hewlett-Packard boss Meg Whitman Will co-host another keynote with the former Dreamworks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg , Quibi. To outwit the platform to Netflix and Amazon on mobile with a series of 10-minute shows.

The managers are expected to charge a $5 monthly fee for Quibi But the basic CES generating so much interest, is his gadgets. Here is our hot-spots of this year's show:

SMART-home Amazon and Google the setting of a lot of floor space to spotlight products that tie in with your virtual assistant again.

the success of The smart speaker helped, the worldwide demand for net-connected home products Will grow by a healthy 24% in unit terms in the year 2019, according to Market research firm IDC.

The Challenge at this point is a pioneer for new types of devices, to tweak rather than what is already on the Market .

Moxie shower head is detachable, so can't be removed by those who want their bathroom comments overheard bathroom specialist, Kohler, is already attention for Moxie. The shower head has a Alexa-enabled speaker and Microphone integrated - But fortunately, not a camera.

in the Meantime, many of the CES are the smaller start-ups that have looked at The Kitchen for Inspiration .

SmartyPans allows owners to "record" a recipe, so it with other Smartypans be shared has a Frying Pan , checks The Weight and temperature of ingredients before you through the cooking process over an app.

Inirv want to replace your stove, the controller for its smart dials.

Inirv the dials are designed to adapt to existing flock, let the owner to turn the heating by voice command and automatically turn off the stove when it is left unattended for too long.

And PantryOn is to automate food-shopping lists, Via smart shelves that monitor, if A Family of food-s favorite-almost.

PantryOn the shelves need to keep their owner of food that is in the same place The restriction that its current prototypes are also quite bulky, so that less storage space as a result.

Not all home-tech requires an always-on net connection.

bright lock and unlock The Front doors by the detection of a pattern of light pulses fired by a smartphone with a Flash .

Havr claims that its light can be installed on the detection of bright lock in less than Five Minutes , The idea is that you can easily share a light-based code with friends, artisan, or others in need of temporary access.

Townew promises to free them from the effort to tie in with the garbage bags.

Townew also can pop its lid automatically when it detects an object in the vicinity-self-seals bags at The Touch of a button, But requires you to be locked in the purchase of the manufacturer of am-liner-mines.

And Lua wants to "turn your plant into an animal" with a sensor-Packed pot that displays animated faces that let you know if your foliage is thirsty, or in need of sun light.

The creators of Lua raised More Than £175,000 to watch on Indiegogo, the crowdfunding site for A topic, the further increase of the pod, with A Number of companies to emulate, the Nespresso-coffee-capsules.

you belong to Tigout, the machine makes bite-sized casseroles and souffles, and AI-Plus Plantbox, a smart-farming appliance, rotating pods full of seeds in small batches of vegetables and Herbs .

consumers think this capsule-based snacks worth The Wait ? Another home-tech trend is in smaller units for compact homes.

Morus Zero is a countertop, the dryer uses a vacuum-based system, in order to dry the clothes.

Its makers claim that the technology makes it more energy-efficient than the conventional thermal-based models. But you may have to address, whether it is possible to deliver what was Promised .

Morus says your dryer is less shrinkage is likely to clothing as The Heat -based alternatives DaanTech of the Bob is another example, with what it claims is The World 's smallest dishwasher.

It only has room for two utensils. Certainly, the sink would not be to much more?

Bob is designed for studio apartments There are many new home security products.

Ring should be the portfolio of the thief-deterrent-tech to expand, But that Will be the moment that it is expanding its monitoring capabilities? His parents, Amazon has the AI know-how, But may be biding his time in order to avoid dispute.

Other not hang over.

Amaryllo promotion of Athena, a security camera, the distinguish recognize human voices and faces, to your friends and family from Strangers .

Athena says, is able to flame up to 20ft (6. 1m) removed In addition, it can detect a fire from a distance, and sounding The Alarm .

TELEVISIONSTVs were in.

It looks like the big news This Time is a no-bezel, edge-to-edge screen from Samsung and a flexible OLED model from LG, which rolls down from the ceiling. The question for both is whether the impressive engineering is involved at the expense of Fragility .

Lg Display says it has a 65in ceiling-mounted screen that can be rolled up when not in use, It is also likely to be a big push 8K mass-Market . The tech offers four times as many pixels as 4K, sets and 16 times as many as the 1080p screens.

Tokyo be added to the summer Olympics in "super hi-vision" format, But it is still unclear which stations support it outside of Japan, NHK and Italy's Rai.

With something other 8K content, TV makers Under Pressure to prove that their upscaling to improve technology, lower resolution, Blu-Ray discs and video streams. It can do a lot of computing smarts, this is good, But some companies say they have trained as "Deep Learning " systems, which are capable of The Task .

Samsung says that his KI-based upscaling has learned how technology, rules like "lines should be thin and rough spots should be alive", As If the differences between LED, OLED, QLED and microLED were not confusing enough, there is a new technology in the city: Mini-LED.

This involves the use of small light-emitting diodes to illuminate as normal,, a screen, a color Pixel. This allows more different lighting zones, which, in turn, the reduction of the blooming effect you sometimes get when light scattered from bright objects in a scene in the surrounding darker areas.

It Will not produce The Deep blacks of OLED, where each pixel is self-lighting. Still, it is microLED tech fit, where The Diodes are so small that they can be assigned to the pixels on a 1:1 basis.

But it is an impressive HDR (high dynamic range) should provide the image at a relatively cheap price.

TCL has confirmed that it Will launch a Mini-LED-TV at CES, and other brands can also do this, even if you call it a different name.

Also look to see what brands the introduction of a new film-maker Mode .

Tvs are stated to have a different logo on the packaging of A Number of Hollywood Directors, including Martin Scorsese , James Cameron and Christopher Nolan , to make an initiative-TV-display intended to be movies than their creators.

On a push-button motion-blurring is turned off, and the colors, frame rate, and aspect ratio are all adjusted.

LG, Panasonic and Vizio have already indicated, you take this, at least in some of the new TV.

ROBOT & AISamsung ' s skunkworks unit of Star Labs was strip teased in the run-up to the CES for 2020.

Other companies have been more forthcoming about their robo-plans.

Other robots at the fair, the emphasis is more on is by to entertain us, rather than on the workplace.

Elsewhere hour is A demo of his synthetic nature of the software.



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Source of news: bbc.com

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