The C Seed N1 Television

Televisions keep getting bigger, but this one is actually better too

A friend of this column made a lot of money in the early part of this century with a chain of stores selling affordable gadgets. He was worth some $200 million at one point. Then he got locked in a legal battle, lost, and went bankrupt.

In his prime, he had a massive country estate, two Porsches, an assortment of other classic cars, and the largest TV you could buy at that time—one of those elephantine rear-projection models. Broke, he moved into a tiny apartment and traded his 84-inch Sony for a 14-inch portable.