The cathode ray tube is dead. “Rust in peace,” ministered the New York Times in its 2009 catalogue of obsolescence for the aughts. The obvious play on words conjoins an industrial mythos with a ...

Duck Hunt '', a game released by Nintendo for the Famicom in 1984, is a game in which players use a ray gun, also known as ``ZAPPER'' overseas, to shoot ducks flying on a TV screen. The Slow Mo Guys ...

Before the advent of flat-panel displays, cathode ray tubes were the mainstream. CRTs consist of a giant vacuum tube with an electron gun inside, which projects electron beams onto a phosphor screen ...

SPIES won’t welcome the development of the world’s first flat-panel cathode ray tube, because they won’t find it so easy to sit outside a building and pick up the signals from a VDU inside. Instead of ...

CERTAIN types of cathode-ray tubes in which the luminous spot on the fluorescent screen is moved by magnetic fields are liable to a peculiar defect, known as 'ion spot' or 'ion burn'. It is now ...