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| Nov 8, 2011 | X-info Table: NEC Rolls Out 52-Inch “Tablet” In Japan | 7-, 9-, or 10-inch tablets are out: NEC Japan today announced the so-called X-info Table [JP], a 52-inch “tablet” (NEC does use this term to market the device) with full HD resolution. Much like similar devices, the idea is to make it simpl... |
| Oct 20, 2011 | Tele Scouter: NEC Announces Transparent Head-Mounted Display | NEC announced the so-called Tele Scouter [JP] in Japan, a futuristic, see-through head-mounted display (HMD) for augmented reality applications. The device is based on the AiRScouter, which Brother has been working on for years (and which w... |
| Sep 20, 2011 | ShieldPRO N22G: NEC Shows Super-Ruggedized Notebook | All these ruggedized computers available on the market out there aren’t tough enough for you? Then you might want to take a look at the ShieldPRO N22G that NEC announced [JP] today for the Japanese market. It’s essentially a Windows noteboo... |
| Jun 14, 2011 | NEC Develops Zero Standby Power Semiconductor Tech | NEC and a researcher from Japan’s Tohoku University, Professor Hideo Ohno, are working on a power chip that solves a pretty big problem: completely eliminating electricity consumption of electronic devices that are in standby mode. The key ... |
| May 19, 2011 | LifeTouch W: NEC To Finally Ship Their Dual-Screen Android Tablet Next Month | The dual 7-inch screen Android tablet that NEC introduced during CES earlier this year is finally ready to ship (in Japan, at least). The company today announced [JP] that it’s now called LifeTouch W, and that it’s scheduled to hit stores o... |
| May 12, 2011 | VersaPro Type VT: NEC's Windows 7 Tablet | Here we have another Windows 7-powered tablet from Japan: NEC announced [JP] it yesterday, and it’s called the VersaPro Type VT. Details are scarce at this point, but NEC does say its tablet will sport a 10.1-inch LCD screen with 1,280×800 ... |
| May 4, 2011 | St. Jude invests in leadless pacemaker startup | Deals roundup | St. Jude Medical Inc. (NYSE:STJ) invested in a startup developing leadless pacemakers.
The St. Paul, Minn.-based cardiac device maker entered a financing deal with Nanostim Inc. through which it intends to make staged investments based on t... |
| Mar 7, 2011 | NEC Wants To Turn Your Arms Into A Remote Control | Have you ever tried pushing buttons on your music player while you’re out jogging or reaching for your cell phone when you’re stuck in a crowded train? It’s not a nice experience and a problem that NEC is trying to solve with a new system [... |
| Feb 15, 2011 | LifeTouch Note: NEC Rolls Out Android Netbook | First a LifeTouch-branded Android tablet, now a netbook: NEC took the wraps off the so-called LifeTouch Note [JP] today, a netbook with Android 2.2 and a 7-inch LCD touchscreen on board.
There will be three different models (with or without... |
| Feb 1, 2011 | NEC Presents 3D Notebook | The world gets yet another 3D device. Today, NEC in Japan announced [JP] a new 3D notebook, as part of the company’s spring line-up of PCs for the local market. It’s the last in a series of 3D-enabled laptops we’ve seen in the last few mont... |
| Jan 28, 2011 | NEC And Lenovo Form Joint Venture To Create Japan's Largest PC Company | Big shake-up in the PC industry: Yesterday, Japan’s biggest PC maker NEC and Lenovo announced a plan to form a joint venture to create Japan’s largest “PC group”. Lenovo will hold a 51% stake in the joint venture (to be incorporated in the ... |
| Nov 10, 2010 | NEC's LifeTouch Android Tablet Gets Release Date (In Japan) | In June this year, NEC started showcasing an Android tablet called LifeTouch. Originally scheduled to go on sale in Japan in October, the device now has a new release date [JP]: “sometime this month” (you can see the final design on the pic... |
| Aug 27, 2010 | NEC Working On Advanced Face Recognition Technology | NEC is working on face recognition technology that helps detecting human faces even if they have aged substantially or gained weight over the years. In a benchmark test [PDF] conducted by the US Department of Homeland Security, the technolo... |
| Jun 17, 2010 | Video: NEC's "LifeTouch" Android tablet up and close | We’ve shown you the LifeTouch [JP], NEC’s first stab at making a touchscreen tablet PC, on Monday, and now we got pointed to a video that shows the device in action. To recap, the LifeTouch is a seven-inch Android 2.1-based tablet running o... |
| Jun 14, 2010 | LifeTouch: NEC preps Android-based tablet PC | A number of Japanese companies, for example NTT, have announced or hinted at tablet PCs in the past months, but NEC is the first to actually name, spec and date its first model. Dubbed LifeTouch [JP], the NEC tablet will feature a 7-inch TF... |
| May 27, 2010 | NEC to ship Blu-ray powered 3D PC in Japan next month | Valuestar N VN790/BS – that’s the name of the 3D PC that NEC today announced [JP] for the Japanese market. The company’s faster than expected: just last month, NEC teased such a machine in Tokyo, saying it’s likely to ship by October 2010. ... |
| May 7, 2010 | New NEC technology detects pirated online videos "in seconds" | Software that helps to detect “illegal” video content on the web automatically isn’t really new, but NEC claims its technology has two selling points that sets it apart from similar solutions: speed and accuracy. The company says its system... |
| Apr 30, 2010 | NEC develops eco-friendly, super-efficient CPU cooling system | NEC has developed an eco-friendly cooling system for CPUs, claiming the technology [JP] uses uses 60% less energy than a water-cooling system and even 80% less than an air-cooling system. The core of the system is a liquid chlorofluorocarbo... |
| Nov 26, 2009 | PaPeRo: NEC's cute helper robot | As a huge conglomerate, NEC is active in a lot of areas. But unknown to many people outside Japan, the company is quite aggressive in the robotics field, too. Their PaPeRo, a cute helper robot, for example, has been around since 1997 alread... |
| Jun 8, 2009 | NEC develops unmanned, self-flying drone for civilian use | NEC has announced the development of an unmanned drone [JP] that can fly by itself to a specific location and send back positional information and video images. The company says it’s the first drone made for civilian applications that can t... |
| Jun 4, 2009 | NEC's updates its supercomputer "Earth Simulator System", breaks record | NEC today announced that their renewed Earth Simulator System, Japan’s most famous supercomputer, now achieves a peak performance of 131 TFLOPS (131 trillion calculations per second. This is up from the 35 TFLOPS that made the same system t... |
| Jun 2, 2009 | LaVie Light: NEC Japan launches new netbook series | Nec Japan today announced two netbooks [JP], the BL100 and the BL300/310/350, which are completely redesigned and come with Windows XP pre-installed. The new netbooks are part of the NEC LaVie series and are labeled “LaVie Light” because of... |
| May 29, 2009 | New kind of shape-memory plastic that's moldable at room temperature | NEC has developed a shape-memory plastic that can be formed at room temperature . The plastic can be heated and cooled, remaining pliant for for several minutes during which it can be processed.
The usual problem with shape-memory plastics ... |
| Apr 6, 2009 | Computers to read your blog aloud, with emotion, in Japan | I’m not sure how many people are going to take up any sort of serious blogging (you know, like us serious bloggers do) from their phone. Can you see yourself dictating a full-sized blog post while walking down the street? And do you trust a... |
| Jan 13, 2009 | NEC Japan presents LaVie notebook spring lineup | NEC Japan today unveiled its lineup of LaVie notebooks for spring 2009 [JP]. The company introduced a total of three new models that will be available in Nippon as early as Thursday (no announcements regarding a possible release abroad have... |
| Jan 6, 2009 | NEC develops speech interpretation software for cell phones | NEC today announced [JP] they developed automatic software for mobile phones automatically translates travel-related words and phrases from Japanese to English and English to Japanese and that seems to be more advanced than this solution.
T... |
| Dec 22, 2008 | LL750: NEC Japan rolls out another LaVie notebook | NEC Japan today announced the LL7750 [JP], a new notebook in the LaVie L series, that goes on sale in Japan at the end of this month (price: $1,950). A release outside Nippon is possible but not yet confirmed.
The notebook features an Intel... |
| Nov 13, 2008 | NEC's SX-9 supercomputer boasts "fastest standing" in HPC challenge benchmark | NEC announced yesterday that its SX-9 supercomputer has achieved the world’s fastest standing in the high performance computing (HPC) field [JP] by getting top scores in 19 of 28 sections in the HPC Challenge Benchmark test.
The HPC Benchma... |
| Nov 12, 2008 | NEC uses life-sized humanoid as ticket and payment terminal | NEC has unveiled a special kind of ticket and e-money terminal yesterday at the iExpo exhibition [JP] (which ends tomorrow) in Tokyo. The Japanese company designed the terminal after a humanoid robot, targeting mainly amusement parks as pot... |
| Oct 21, 2008 | NEC develops sealed LCD screen for use as digital sign in semi-open environments | NEC today announced it has developed a completely sealed LCD screen [JP] for use as digital information boards located in train stations and other semi-exposed areas. The prototype is protected against rain, dust, dirt and other dangers.
NE... |
| Oct 15, 2008 | New LCD screen from NEC makes 3D images viewable with naked eye | Older 3D screen from NEC (showcased last year)
NEC today announced the development of a 12.1-inch LCD panel [JP] that allows viewers to see 3-D images without having to wear 3D glasses.
NEC’s 3D screen uses smaller displays (sized at 2.5 in... |
| Oct 14, 2008 | NEC Japan sells supercute, pink Hello Kitty-notebook | NEC today announced in Japan [JP] it has teamed up with Sanrio (the company behind the Hello Kitty brand) and French fashion designer Courrèges to develop a girls-only notebook for the Japanese market. The so-called “NEC LaVie G Hello Kitty... |
| Jul 22, 2008 | NEC technology identifies person's age and sex, delivers targeted ads | NEC announced [JP] the development of an electronic advertisement delivery and face recognition system that makes it easier for companies to address customers with targeted ads.
The company uses a newly developed plasma display (50 inches) ... |
| Apr 14, 2008 | Papa NEC's got a brand new 22.5" 120Hz LCD HDTV | This is a nice-looking piece of tech, but I’m afraid it’s not high resolution enough to be a desktop monitor, and it’s a bit small to be a main TV. That said, it’s got the 120Hz technology that everyone’s excited about (I don’t really trust... |
| Nov 8, 2006 | NEC TYPE-N01: Greatest Laptop Ever? | Spec-wise, the TYPE-N01 from NEC and Takara might not be the fastest kid on the playground, but what it lacks in speed, it makes up for in style. As you can see, the TYPE-N01 is decked out in all sorts of scary looking garb, including a red... |