I remember in the middle of the noughties how we all pined for the completely converged device. Something that did everything well enough that you only need to carry it. This concept from Fujitsu kind of does that, but not really, by packing a digital camera, a smartphone, and a tablet into a single laptop body.
Fujitsu’s Arrows μ smartphone, which is newly available in Japan, is the slimmest phone to ever receive US Federal Communications Commission approval, which means that Americans can get their hands on one as soon as Fujitsu sets itself up with a US carrier.
By the end of this year you could be playing with a quad-core Android phone courtesy of Fujitsu. We just played with the company’s newest prototype. It’s fast, but what would you do with all of that power?
Everything should be waterproof. Especially phones, because you know how you love to poop and talk. You can thankfully drop Fujitsu’s new line of waterproof Android phones and tablets in the crapper without ruining them.
The K supercomputer just got a bit quicker, boosting its computational output to 10.5 quadrillion calculations per second and making it the speediest number-crunching system on the planet.
Shown off at electronics trade show CEATEC 2011 in Tokyo this week, the Hybrid Power Generation Device is energy-capturing thin film — and a work-in-progress — from Fujitsu. According to Pocket-lint, the film can only claim a nanowatt from us humans, but it does open the door to an intriguing future of person-powered tech.
