Tandy announced this month it was disposing of its 17 Incredible Universe electronics stores; Wal-Mart said it will no longer sell PCs in 700 of its 1,600 stores.
Science skills can be used to understand electrical motors, electronics, the solar system and universe, chemicals, fix clogged sinks or evaluate illnesses.
It sold Incredible Universe to Fry's Electronics in 1996 and Computer City to CompUSA in 1998.
On the new album, Gazebo Effect, he worked with Alex Grey (of experimental label DPI), and Mitchell Brown, to build a psychedelic universe of mathematics and electronics that somehow sounds organic.
Spun out of research conducted by Professor Jennifer Lewis at Harvard University and the University of Illinois (which both hold an equity stake in the company), Voxel8 is aiming to expand the universe of printed products to include electronics.
As the 1990s began, Sony, Matsushita and other Japan-based electronics makers were the undisputed rulers of the analog universe.
The electronics chain is all too pleased to inform the Universe that it'll start selling government coupon-redeemable converter boxes starting on the 17th of this month.
But imagine this Webern-esque role for the composer, reinventing the musical universe, added to the heady new powers offered by tape and electronics.
That ethos has spawned a universe of connected portable devices, which some analysts have dubbed a 2.0 movement in consumer electronics.
