Tag: FUJITSU

Fujitsu's interactive robotic teddy bear arrived last spring, but our friends over at Engadget just recently got a one-on-one demonstration of the bear-bot's personalized and reactive behavior, capturing its animatronic antics on video. (Check it out after the break.) The somewhat terrifying bear, designed for children and the elderly as a "people-friendly terminal," originally inspired doubts as ...

Apple is developing a knack for ignoring products already on the market, and picking whatever name they choose. Back in 2007, it was the iPhone, which shared its name with (or, robbed its name from) a VoIP handset sold by Cisco Systems. Those two companies eventually reached a settlement allowing Apple to use the name, and, now, with the release of the iPad, the Cupertino lawyers will have to go ...

After years of teasing -- FLEPia was first announced in April of 2007, and first proven in 2006 -- Fujitsu has at last released its color e-book (or e-paper mobile terminal, as they'd like you to call it) to the masses. Featuring an 8-inch XGA screen capable of displaying 260,000 colors, along with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and up to 4GB of storage via SD card, and measuring less than half an inch thick, ...

Not that we haven't seen similar technology from other outfits before, but we'll take as many in-car safety advancements as we can get. It's bruited that Fujitsu is conjuring up a sophisticated sensor system that can actually detect when a driver gets drowsy or begins to sink into a deep, dark wonder-world of sleep. Put simply, the system would detect specific changes in the motorist's heart rate ...

It's been a few years since we checked in on Navirobo. Developed by Japanese-research-company iXs, the teddy-bear-shaped robot is now fully grown and has been fettered to Fujitsu and Kawasaki on a Japanese press tour. The 'bot features an impressive bag of tricks, including an accelerometer ("ooo, it's bumpy"), light sensor ("don't forget to turn on the lights"), and voice guided navigation ...

Not like we couldn't see it coming, but news is that a big theme at this year's CES will be "green technology." The environment, being green, and global warming have been on everyone's minds this year. The Prius, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' OLEDs, and tons of research into alternative power sources and fuels were all the rage in 2007, and '08 doesn't look to be any different. A number of new ...

It's a little early in the product life to declare Windows Home Server a failure or a success yet, but this holiday season is shaping up to be the first real test of its market viability. Windows Home Sever is an offshoot of the company's enterprise platform for Web and file hosting designed with consumer in mind. Essentially, it's a system that will automatically backup several computers ...

For those of us with tons of photos, movies, music and video games glomming up our computer's processing speed, external hard drives can certainly be a godsend. And recently, Fujitsu unveiled what it is calling the "world's largest external mobile hard drive," which clocks in at whopping 300-gigabytes (GB). This little powerhouse features the option to password lock selected items (or everything ...