Development of Portable X-ray measurement system
X-ray measurement systems now days are used in many applications such as medical diagnostics, inspection of industrial products, and security checks at airports, and etc. Currently in many X-ray systems cathode needs to be heated via a heater or a filament in order for it to emit electron which in turn will hit the anode part resulting in EMISSION OF X-ray. However, it takes sometime for cathode to warm up to a required temperature resulting in a continuous power consumption even when there is no X-ray generation. Another issue with such system is the heater or filament degradation caused by current conduction over a long period of time. Read more
Automating the creation of High quality 3D image for WEB?
In order to create a 3D image, a photographer usually has to manually adjust a position of an object for taking a shot of several different angles of the object resulting in a very time consuming and costly process. A Japanese company by the name of U-SYSTEMS Inc has developed equipment that reduces the amount of time and cost of the overall process of 3D image creation.
The “APS-01v1” is capable of automating the entire process of photo shooting such as rotating the object, moving camera, lighting control, camera control and uploading data to PC resulting in reduced cost and efficient way of creating a high quality 3D image. The company also offers a service to create 3D content for website by using “US-360i” which can view a product from 360 degree. The price of creating one content starts from 15,750 yen.
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New series of Receipt and Journal printer by Fujitsu
Fujitsu today unveiled its new series of ultra low profile 24V receipt and journal printers units. The units can either be mounted separately for the reason of design and installation flexibility or they can be combined into one unit. The target applications include mini kiosk, banking and POS terminals as well as scientific and medical equipment. The units has been designed fir medium duty applications where the receipt and journal units both have output speed of up to 150mm per second with operating life of 100km of paper. Read more
Development of new grade of Shape Controlled micro-graphite for Electric Vehicles
Show Denko Corporation made an announcement on development of a new grade of SCMG™ (Shape-controlled micro graphite) to be targeted for use in anode material in large lithium-ion batteries of Electric Vehicles (EVs). In light of environmental issues such as global warming and depletion of oil and natural gas resources automakers are now working hard to develop eco friendly vehicles. Hybrid cars have already reached the commercial production stage. Additionally, the plug-in hybrid automobiles as well as EVs that are solely driven by electric motors are now reaching the commercial stage as well. Read more
Au’s HTC smartphone
KDDI and Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company will commence sale of HTC smartphone. The E30HT runs on Window mobile Professional Edition ver. 6.1. The transmission capability of E30HT is at download speed of maximum 3.1 Mbps and upload speed of maximum 1.8Mbps. The demission of E30HT’s main body is 52mm in width, 106mm in height and 18mm in thickness. The E30HT is equipped with 2.8 inch VGA liquid crystal touch panel and five lines of QWERTY keyboards. The E30HT comes with a WALKINGHOTSPOT application capable of turning your mobile phone into a WiFi hotspot. With E30HT the user is also capable of erasing their personal data in case of theft or loss. The new E30HT will go on sale by May 1st, 2009
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Buffalo Japan LinkStation with built-in DLNA Server
Buffalo Japan unveiled on April 24th their network attached HDD LinkStation basic model “LS-CHL series (LS-CH500L, LS-CH1.TL, LS-CH1.5L)”. The “LinkStation” is designed not only to store or share data but also lets you to access data through the internet via PC or iPhone 3G. For example, you can store digital camera data on your “LinkStation” through UMPC. “LinkStation” has a built-in DLNA Server which can stream stored data to TV or Audio device that has DLNA capability. Read more
Heat-sealable UHF-Band RFID tags for Garment Management by Fujitsu
Fujitsu made an announcement on availability of its new compact, light weight UHF-Band RFID tag targeted for work uniform management as well as other applications. The newly developed RFID tag in addition of being waterproof is heat, pressure and chemical resistant. Furthermore, the new tag s 40% smaller and 50% lighter by weighing only 1 gram plus it is more flexible than its predecessor. Read more
Panasonic’s summer model mobile note PC “Let’s note”
Panasonic unveiled its new 2009 summer model mobile note PC “Let’s note”. They comprise of “F8 series CF-F8”, “W8 series CF-W8”, “T8 series CF-T8” and “R8 series CF-R8”. All models are equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo SU9400 (1.4GHz), 160GB HDD and 4GB main memory except for “CF-F8” which comes with 3GB main memory. As for the display, “CF-F8” has 14.1″ WXGA type (TFT) 1280 x 800 dots, “CF-W8” and “CF-T8” has 12.1″ WXGA type (TFT) 1024×768 dots, CF-R8” has 10.4″ WXGA type (TFT) 1024×768 dots. The “CF-F8” and “CF-W8” are the only models that come with built-in super multi-drive. In terms of operating time with battery pack, “CF-F8” operates about 10 hours, “CF-W8”, “CF-T8” operates about 11 hours and “CF-R8” capable of operating for about 8 hours. Read more
An unprecedented wireless remote controller “Magic Ring” by DENSO
Developed by Denso Corporation a leading automotive electronics supplier in Japan “Yubinya” is a magic ring capable generating electric current. By just using your thumb and index finger while wearing this “Magic Ring” on the index finger, you can open the car door or control volume of audio player remotely.
The “Yubinya” has a face of a cat with a diameter of 3 centimeters and a thickness of?centimeters. Since there is an apparatus that generates electric current inside of this “Yubinya”, while you keep fingers untouched the current remains inside of the ring, but when you press your fingers together the current flows from the index finger to the thumb. Then the sensor inside of the ring detects the current and sends to the device a control order remotely. Denso is planning to put “Yubinya” into practical use by reducing the size of “Yubinya” making it less noticeable. Denso’s planed release of “Yubinya” is within three years time period. “Yubinya”?is not really made for people who pick their nose too often which may result in tones of opening and closing doors that could cause some headaches. Something for Denso to consider.
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World’s first 1394 Automotive controller IC for in-vehicle multimedia by Fujitsu
Due to gradual shift to digital TV in the market around the globe and increasing availability of high definition (HD) contents plus the termination of analog output from Blu-ray players from 2013 making 1394 Automotive an in-vehicle multimedia protocol technology an increasingly attractive enabling technology for in-vehicle multimedia networking. In view of this anticipated market need Fujitsu Microelectronics limited unveiled world’s first “1394 Automotive” (IDB-1394) controller IC capable of HD video transmission over the IDB-1394 in-vehicle multimedia network protocol. Read more
