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
Nature technology the grandest of all
Is nature in rescue of technology or technology in rescue of nature? With a drastic shift in a way the technologist and scientist envision the future technological advancement, it is becoming more prevalent that more and more technology is mimicking the wonders of nature in finding the next generation innovations to untangle the environmental global issues and in improving the quality of life as well as other aspect of it that can substantially change our living standard as we got so much accustomed to it. Invention of Velcro by “de Mestral” in 1948 is a perfect example of such biomimetrics where we can see the technologists’ inspiration for nature. Read more
Development of world’s first Professional 3D Production System by Panasonic
With ever increasing acceptance of consumer market in 3D contents and with movie production studios such as Hollywood moving towards creation of more 3D entertainment content it is becoming increasingly important to create a more efficient 3D production process and environment. Currently, 3D content producers have to hand-build their own 3D production systems by physically connecting multiple 2D production devices resulting in a great deal of time and effort in producing a 3D movie. In order to address this future issue Panasonic announced it will start developing a professional 3D Full HD production system. Read more
