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News

Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi Merge Their Small Screens

12:20AM September 1, 2011 | Kwame Opam

Early this morning, Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi came out hand in hand to declare that they were merging their small screen divisions into one liquid crystal behemoth. The new entity will be known as Japan Display. And it’s a good thing for you. More »


Mobile

Hitachi’s Glasses-Less 3D Display: 4.5-Inches, 720p Resolution

10:26PM July 20, 2011 | Casey Chan

HItachi’s latest screen—something that may pop up in future phones and other portable devices—combines everything you’d ever want (and didn’t want) in one display. Meaning glasses-less 3D, 4.5 inch IPS-based LCD and a stunning 1280×720 resolution. More »


Computing

Hitachi G-Connect: A Wireless Hard Drive And Router For Your iPhone And iPad

10:54PM June 22, 2011 | Casey Chan

Like the Seagate GoFlex Satellite hard drive before it, Hitachi’s G-Connect can act as expandable wireless storage for your mobile device. It can store 500 gigs and even has an Ethernet port to turn itself into a router. More »


Mobile

Hitachi’s New Display Ready To Kick Retina Display Ass

1:40AM February 12, 2011 | Kwame Opam

There’s a new IPS LCD mobile screen by Hitatchi that is 4.5 inches across and boasts a 720×1280 resolution. At 329dpi, it’s even sharper than the iPhone 4′s 326dpi Retina Display. [Hitachi via Engadget]


Hitachi Gets A New Life(Studio) Down Under

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12:00PM September 2, 2010 | Alex Kidman

Feature packed hard drives land locally with pricing, but some features are notably (but predictably) absent. More »


The Touchscreen That May Bring iPhone Pen Input One Day

1:30AM September 1, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

Hitachi – the inventors of the IPS display technology used in the iPhone 4 and iPad – have developed a new capacitive touchscreen that allows for multitouch input with both fingers and synthetic, non-conductive materials in plastic pens or gloves. More »


New York Suing LCD Makers Over Price-Fixing Concerns

6:02AM August 7, 2010 | Sam Biddle

New York State filed suit today against several of the largest LCD manufacturers, citing concerns of price-fixing schemes. Those under scrutiny include Sharp, LG, Hitachi and Samsung – the latter being the No.1 LCD seller in the US. More »


Hitachi LifeStudio Coats External Storage In Bells And Whistles And Hulu

5:00PM July 7, 2010 | Brian Barrett

You’ve got to hand it to Hitachi: it’s not easy to muster mass enthusiasm for external storage. So the LifeStudio hard drive line takes a new tack: piling on features until it doesn’t feel like a hard drive anymore. More »


Hitachi’s World’s Fastest 7mm Drives Perfect For Super-Slim Laptops

7:59PM June 1, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Ignoring for a moment that Hitachi appears to have used a male model with fake fingernails, this Z-series HDD boasts the privilege of (currently) being the fastest 7mm drive around – and comes in capacities of 160GB, 250GB and 320GB. More »


Hitachi Working On Glasses-Less 3D LCD

4:53PM April 13, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Another company has fallen down the glasses-less 3DTV route. Hitachi’s going to use Sharp’s parallax barrier technology (supposedly used in the Nintendo 3DS and that mysterious StreamTV panel) on some mean LCDs, hopefully just as slim as their previous models. More »