hitachi

Hitachi Working On Glasses-Less 3D LCD

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.

April 9, 2010
Science

Brain Analyser Reads How Uncomfortable Wearing It Makes You

This awkward-looking contraption can read your mind – sort of. It’s an encephalometer from Hitatchi, and it measures the change in blood flow across your brain. You know what that makes it good for? Neuromarketing, apparently! And an old joke.

April 6, 2010

Batteries That Last 10 Years Developed By Hitachi

Doubling the Li-ion battery life from five years, Hitachi reckons its new technology, which extends the life of batteries, will also cost less too – thanks to reducing the amount of cobalt used. Hitachi hopes to get them onto the production line in the next year. [Akihabara News]

March 31, 2010
Gadgets

Hitachi’s Biometric Coke Machine Lets You Pay With Your Pulse

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For those people who still have trouble figuring out which way to slide George into the vending machine, a prototype from Hitachi makes things a little simpler: it identifies caffeine fiends by reading the pulse in their fingertips.

March 16, 2010

Dell Files Lawsuit Against Five Companies For Alleged Price-Fixing

News just in – X tech company sues Y tech company! Except it’s not that simple. Dell’s actually filed a lawsuit against five manufacturers – Sharp, Hitachi, Toshiba, Seiko Epson and HannStar, for supposed price-fixing of LCD monitors.

February 2, 2010

Millimetre Wave Chips Could Make Wireless A/V A Normal Thing

Wireless HD TVs and Blu-ray players are far from standard, but that may change as a plethora of super fast millimetre wave chips – based upon a standard by the IEEE802 (Wi-Fi) board – are released later this year.

October 30, 2009
Cameras

Weekend Gadgets: JVC PICSIO

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It’s slightly quiet on the new gadget front here at Giz today. I’ve still got the impressive Sennheiser PXC 310BT Bluetooth headphones, the Amazon Kindle (complete with a copy of the Kama Sutra), and the Canon 7D to play with, but in terms of new stuff, it’s all about the JVC PICSIO HD pocket camcorder.

August 6, 2009

Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 World’s First 2TB, 7200RPM Hard Drive

SSDs might be catching up to the trusty HDD in capacity, but this first-of-its-kind, 2TB, 7200RPM drive from Hitachi serves as a reminder that for speedy mass storage people can still afford, the old standby still remains king.

July 30, 2009
Gadgets

Vending Machines Bill You Via Your Veins

While Japanese banks have been using the technology for a few years, now Hitachi has introduced a vending machine that eschew coins and credit cards for the veins in your fingers.

March 21, 2009
Gadgets

Holy Sh*t Look At This Drill

Behold, the Hitachi DH50MRY. Part drill, part jackhammer, it can eat up concrete like balsa wood without killing your arms. Our friends at PopSci cut one open to show how it works.

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