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Sharp to deliver World’s largest LCD monitor to Shinjuku Piccadilly Cinema Complex

Sharp will introduce into the Japanese market a 108V-inch LCD monitor, the world’s largest, for business and commercial applications. Sharp LB-1085 LCD monitor will be delivered to the Shinjuku Piccadilly cinema complex one of Tokyo’s premier multiplex movie theaters, which is set to open July 19, 2008. The Shinjuku Piccadilly, where this monitor will be installed, will be one of Tokyo’s premiere multiplex cinemas, and is being built under the concept of a “pure-white theater” with a predominant design theme of brilliant, immaculate white.

The entrance lobby features a huge open-ceiling foyer extending from the 1st floor through to the 3rd floor, and the Sharp108V-inch LCD monitor will be set up in the center of the third-floor main lobby facing this open foyer. This setting will take maximum advantage of the outstanding features of the LCD, including wide viewing angles and high contrast even in bright locations.

June 13, 2008 | Related Entries - Media Devices

More than 10-Million Sharp One-Seg Mobile Phones sold in Japan

In late May 2008, Sharp passed the 10-million mark for shipments of One-Seg-compatible mobile phones in Japan. One-Seg is a terrestrial digital broadcasting service for mobile devices in Japan. In the two years since the release of its first One-Seg mobile phone in May 2006, sharp has become the first in the industry to reach 10 million shipments of One-Seg mobile phones. Sharp's first One-Seg mobile phone had a ‘cycloid-style’ LCD screen that could be rotated horizontally 90 degrees. This offered a unique way of enjoying TV on a mobile phone that was a big hit with consumers. During the two years, Sharp put on the market 23 models of one-seg handsets featuring its cutting-edge liquid crystal display technology.

June 13, 2008 | Related Entries - Mobile Phones

Samsung Omnia better than iPhone 3G ?

A day before the iPhone 3G's release, Samsung unveiled the Omnia (SPH-i900). The smartphone, set to take on the iPhone, boasts a slew of functions and features including a 3.2-inch full touch-screen, 5-megapixel camera, GPS, 32GB memory, Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi wireless networking. The Samsung Omnia, smaller than the iPhone, fits neatly in the palm. Its high-resolution camera, memory and communications specs also outdo the iPhone, not to mention the Omnia's haptic feedback technology. The Omnia uses Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system, enabling a variety of applications such as e-mail, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

June 13, 2008 | Related Entries - Mobile Phones

Robot POMI can express happiness, sadness, and joy!

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) of Korea has developed a robot with four human senses such as seeing, hearing, touching, and smelling as interactive modalities. Named POMI (Penguin rObot for Multimodal Interaction), the robot can move the eyebrow, eye lid, eye ball and lips. It also uses various colors and formats of LED lights to show face expressions. As the robot has soft arms, its arm gestures are pretty natural and safe to humans. Robot POMI has two kinds of built-in scent sprays to express happiness, sadness, and joy. It also has a heartbeat device which makes people feel like the robot’s heart really beats up when they put the hands on the left chest of the robot. It also can talk to people, short answers in most cases, through a built-in speaker.

June 13, 2008 | Related Entries - Robotic

OCZ launches stylish Spyder flash drive

OCZ today announced the latest addition to its flash drives with the all-new Spyder. The affordable, portable, and innovative cap-less design flash drive offers students and professionals highly reliable and high-capacity flash storage at an aggressive price point. The stylish OCZ Spyder has a unique slide-top design, unlike flash drives with an easy-to-lose cap. Typical removable caps may get lost and leave the connector plug exposed to possible damage, but the Spyder design eliminates the possibility of losing the cap along with providing protection.

June 13, 2008 | Related Entries - Computing

LG Secret launched in Latin America

LG today announced the launch of LG Secret (LG-KF755) mobile phone in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Following the successful launch in Europe, Latin America was selected as the second stop in a series of LG Secret launches around the world. Latin America is one of the most promising markets for LG Mobile business, particularly for the edition of LG Black Label Series. With the huge success of LG Chocolate and LG Shine, LG recorded the company’s second highest mobile sales units sold during the first quarter of 2008. LG in Latin America is widely recognized as a premium brand with excellence in consumer value.

June 13, 2008 | Related Entries - Mobile Phones

Sumitomo showcases world’s first Prototype electric passenger car driven by a superconducting motor

Prototype electric vehicle from Sumitomo Japan is the first in the world to be driven by a superconducting motor. In a standard electric vehicle motor, the coil is supplied with a slightly lower current and a slightly higher voltage to reduce electric resistance. However, it is difficult to generate a higher torque with a lower current. As no resistance is applied to the superconducting coil, it results in a higher current with fewer turns and a lower voltage, thus resulting in a higher torque. While the latest electric vehicle was prototyped based on a passenger car, the company also plans to consider utilizing the superconducting motor in larger vehicles such as buses and trucks.

June 13, 2008 | Related Entries - Transport

Future Cars to run on water only!

The new fuel cell system- Water Energy System (WES) developed by Genepax, Japan uses water as a fuel and does not emit CO2. The system can generate power just by supplying water and air to the fuel and air electrodes, respectively. The basic power generation mechanism of the new system is similar to that of a standard fuel cell, which uses hydrogen as a fuel. The main feature of the new system is that it uses the company's membrane electrode assembly (MEA), which contains a material capable of breaking down water into hydrogen and oxygen through a chemical reaction.

Genepax unveiled a fuel cell stack with a rated output of 120W and a fuel cell system with a rated output of 300W. The 300W system is an active system, which supplies water and air with a pump. In the demonstration, the company powered the TV and the lighting equipment with a lead-acid battery charged by using the system. In addition, the 300W system was mounted in the luggage room of a compact electric vehicle "Reva" manufactured by Takeoka Mini Car Products Co Ltd, and the vehicle was actually driven by the system.

June 13, 2008 | Related Entries - Transport

Radio Frequency for Consumer Electronics Consortium formed

Philips, Samsung Electronics, Sony Corporation and Panasonic have joined forces to develop a standardized specification for radio frequency-based remote controls for audio visual consumer electronics devices. Working with Freescale Semiconductors, OKI and Texas Instruments, the seven companies have formed the RF4CE (Radio Frequency for Consumer Electronics) Consortium to create a new protocol that will enable the development of radio frequency remote controls that deliver richer communication, increased reliability and more flexible use.

June 13, 2008 | Related Entries - Other Stuff

OKI Video Correction LSI improves video quality under low light

Oki has developed a video correction LSI- ML87V21072 for monitoring cameras with a noise reduction function and a FIFO frame memory. The LSI can correct the video to high quality even in low light intensity. With OKI's ML87V21072, users can experience a high-clarity, high-quality video. The OKI LSI- ML87V21072 includes a video encoder function, and is compatible with DSP interface, which makes it possible to directly connect with DSP in CCD image sensor applications.

June 13, 2008 | Related Entries - Digital Cameras

It happens only in Japan -Bubble bath for dogs without shampoo!

Micro bubbles produced by micro bubble generator Wan Love for dogs reach the skin and hair roots of a dog and clean it without use of shampoo. The micro bubble generator from IDEC Corp, Japan is externally attached to the dog bath, by applying the company's micro bubble generation technology GALFor. It can stably produce bubbles whose diameter is 20μm on average and density is 600,000 bubbles/cm3. .The GALF is a technology to continuously and stably generate micro bubbles without using a compressor. The surfaces of the micro bubbles generated by the GALF are negatively charged, so they attach to positively-charged and neutral organic substances in a liquid, dissolving dirt and grease. In addition, bursting bubbles clean the surfaces of objects.

June 13, 2008 | Related Entries - Other Stuff

Asus launches world's first hardware based real-time overclocking device for graphics cards

Asus has introduced the world's first hardware based real-time overclocking device for graphics cards – the ROG (Republic of Gamers) OC GEAR, this time bundled with NVIDIA graphics cards in the form of the Asus ROG EN9600GT OC GEAR/HTDI/512M. This new version of the OC GEAR will allow users to overclock the shader clock, memory clock, and GPU clock for greater graphical enhancements, and will provide users with up to 20% enhanced overclocking performance and gaming experiences.

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June 13, 2008 |

Asus LS221H World's slimmest 22-inch Widescreen LCD Monitor

Catering to discerning users who require a robust performing yet sublime addition to their digital home devices, Asus today launched the world's slimmest 22-inch Widescreen LCD Monitor- the LS221H LCD. This ultra-slim 22" widescreen LCD monitor combines pleasing aesthetics with leather material, superb display capabilities, and features a 9H-hardness glass panel for scratch resistant protection.

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June 13, 2008 |

Samsung announces High Performance Smart Card IC with 90-Nanometer Technology

Samsung announced today its 90-nanometer (nm) smart card IC with high data storage capacity for subscriber identity module (SIM) cards and mobile TV applications. The new Samsung 90nm smart card IC (S3CC9PF) utilizes a Samsung proprietary 16-bit CalmRISC processor with 16.5KB RAM, 384KB ROM, and a large capacity 288KB EEPROM.

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June 12, 2008 | Related Entries - Mobile Phones

Epson Toyocom announces world's thinnest kHz-band crystal unit

Epson Toyocom has commercially developing the world's thinnest kHz-band crystal unit. The new tuning-fork crystal unit, called the FC-13E, has a maximum thickness of just 0.48 mm. The Epson Toyocom FC-13E surpasses even the company's own FC-13F, which, with a maximum thickness of 0.6 mm, was the thinnest crystal unit in its class when it was announced in January 2007.

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June 12, 2008 | Related Entries - Other Stuff