Eco-Friendly Garbage Collection Powered by Mitsubishi Motors
Collecting your garbage in an environmentally friendly manner is as important as creating them. This is all part of CO2 footprint life cycle. To make this happen Mitsubishi Motors will supply its lithium batteries from its new generation electric vehicle (EV) i-MiEV to Kyokuto Kaihatsu Kogyo Company that owns the garbage collection trucks. Why this is needed you may ask? Well, current trash compactors on garbage collection trucks run on power from the truck’s engine which means during the garbage collection and ejection the engine of the truck must be running which are not very Eco friendly things to do. Read more
Release of High-Brightness and Performance Projector by Sanyo
Sanyo today unveiled two new high-brightness and high-performance projectors. The LP-XM150 offers the highest brightness in its class at 6,000 lumens and the LP-XM100 at 5,000 lumens. Sanyo targeted these projectors to be used in large rooms or lecture halls. The newly incorporated optical engine uses an inorganic liquid crystal panel to ensure high reliability. The highest brightness has been achieved through use of newly developed optical engine plus a superior cooling technology. Furthermore the light efficiency has been increased by 20% in comparison to conventional model resulting in big screen projection. Read more
Development of Clear-coat paint with self-storing qualities by Toyota
Toyota Motor Corporation today mad an announcement on development of highly scratch resistance clear coat paint soon to be used in company’s Lexus LS model. The newly developed paint is highly resistance to surface scratches which is resulted by repeated car washes. One interesting characteristic of this paint unlike the conventional clear coat paint is that it is self restoring when it is deformed resulting in prevention of luster degradation helping with prolong new car color and gloss plus no special maintenance. Read more
Release of New LED AQUOS LCD TVs by SHARP
Sharp today unveiled its new LX series “LED AQUOS” LCD TVs into the Japanese market. The four models namely the 60V-inch, 52V-inch, 46V-inch, and 40V-inch incorporates Sharp’s proprietary UV2A photo alignment technology which was announced by Sharp on September 17th of this year. The new technology will contribute in achieving bright white and extremely deep blacks. At the same time the LED backlight will provide a highly precise control of the light output. Read more
Development of new sensing technology for measuring body movement by Fujitsu
This new sensing technology was co-developed by Fujitsu and Mr. Kajiro Watanabe, the president of Sensing Control Lab Co., Ltd. and a professor at Hosei University in Japan. The newly developed sensing technology is capable of accurately measuring the body movement of a person carrying a sensor equipped mobile phone. The first application was in analyzing the golf swing in ETGA Swing Lesson. Through the use of the mobile phone’s built-in sensors, the application will gather motion data and then fed these data to a 3D motion sensing engine for analysis and assessment of the path of the user’s golf swing and provide advice based on set rules and a professional advice. Read more
Development of Full High Definition 50-inch 3D PDP and High Precision Active Shuter Glasses by Panasonic
Panasonic just made an announcement on development of 50-inch size full high definition 3D plasma display panel plus a high-precision active shutter glasses which company claims will bring the true to life 3D images to your living room. The new PDP display has been developed based on Panasonic’s world first full HD 3D plasma Home Theater system which was developed and unveiled back in 2008 which was comprised of 103-inch PDP and Blu-ray Disc player. Why Panasonic decreased the size of its display, well according to the company it seems to be the most popular size for the home theater system. The newly developed PDP comes with Panasonic’s high speed 3D drive technology with capability of rapid illumination of pixels while maintaining the brightness; it also has incorporated the crosstalk reduction technology aimed at reducing the image ghosting which occurs when left and right eye images are alternately displayed. PDP were selected as the display technology due to their self illuminating characteristics with full motion picture resolution capable of fast response time making them ideal for display of fast moving images. Read more
JVC unveils PICSIO a New HD Memory compact Camcorder
Japan Victor Corporation (JVC) made an announcement on development of PICSIO GC-FM1, company’s new HD memory compact camera. By this announcement JVC put itself in the low cost compact camera market dominated by such companies as Sony and others. PICSIO as company calls it is menu-less and effortless compact camera with operation as easy as pushing a button for your desired function. PICSIO has a 1080 full HD recoding capability for HDTV viewing.It comes with a 8 Megapixel 1/3.2 CMOS image sensor with 4x digital zoom capability. Read more
Development of World’s First Optical Integrated Circuit by NEC
Tunable light source using silicon photonic technology
Development of all optical signal processing has a special interest in telecommunication industry where the speed of communication, low power consumption as well as the cost plays a significant role. One of the key items in achieving all optical signal processing is developing an optical waveguides which can exhibit a highly nonlinear as well as super-fast performance. Well, it looks like NEC has managed to do this. NEC Corporation made an announcement on development of world’s first compact tunable light source capable of operating using a low-power silicon photonic technology. The newly developed compact tunable light source is a micro-ring resonator with a variable wavelength. Read more
DOCOMO unveils its green Mobile Phone Prototype with touch of Style
I guess use of scrap woods or so called surplus woods is becoming a technology trend coinciding with thinning tree activities in maintaining healthy forest. This is my second post on this subject. It all started with Mitsubishi’s announcement on development of new plastic resin from the surplus cedar wood. This follows with today’s DOCOMO announcement on development of mobile phone prototype made of surplus wood of trees culled. Well only the exterior body of the phone is made of wood. The new prototype was developed in corporation with Sharp and Olympus Corporation as well as with the collaboration of “more trees”, a reforestation project which is founded by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto and others. Read more
High Definition LCD Digital Photo Frame by Fujifilm
With the booming digital photo frame market in Japan, manufacturers find themselves in a heated competition in introducing new functionality to the original model of this product. Fujifilm is no exception by introducing their DP-7V a high definition LCD digital photo frame featuring multi functional capabilities. With DP-7V the user can enjoy watching videos and slide shows of digital photos with music. Read more
