Tag: HITACHI

We love bots of all shapes and sizes, but many of them just don't have practical applications for our daily life. But Hitachi's "Intelligent Carry" bot is a wonderful exception. It autonomously transports up to 2,200-pounds of stuff from one place to the other -- plain and simple. According to Popular Science, the bot navigates its environment using an algorithm dubbed SLAM (or Simultaneous ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. UI designers aren't going to relax until they perfect the 'Minority Report' interface, and the latest gestural attempt from Hitachi lets users swing their hands ...

The folks at Hitachi and Hitachi Kokusai Denki Engineering recently showed off a new brain analyzer that wraps around your noggin. It seems like scientists are always finding new ways to dig deeper into our heads, but this device is unique because it's so compact -- even if it does look like something out of a bad sci-fi movie. According to DVICE, the encephalometer (a fancy word for brain ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. America's favorite holiday, Super Bowl Sunday, is just a week away. Get your ideal system set up with Engadget's handy guide to all your HDTV, audio, live stats, and ...

Hitachi employees don't have to worry about vending machines spitting out wrinkled cash or swallowing coins. In another addition to Japan's long line of unique vending machines that will never make it to U.S. shores, new soft drink machines allow employees to pay by swiping their finger instead of feeding in money. According to Crunch Gear, the machine uses a proprietary finger vein biometric ...

Is gesture-based remote control the next biggest thing since the touchscreen? Last week, we saw Sony Ericsson's new W508 Walkman phone, which lets you ignore a call and shut off the ringer with the wave of your hand. And as we wrote back in October, TV manufacturers certainly seem to be taking their inspiration from the motion-sensitive Wii remote with gesture based control technology for changing ...

You heard it right -- Hitachi's UltraThin 1.5 family that caused such a stir at CES is finally available for US consumers. Available in 32-, 37-, 42- and 47-inch sizes, the lot has been broken down into two distinct clans: the Director's Series (X) and Ultra Vision (V) models. Each member of the former comes with a 2-year warranty and a sticker ranging from $1,999 to $4,699, while the latter ...

Good news for digital packrats who are always on the move: Asus is gearing up to release a notebook computer with a pair of 500 gigabyte hard drives inside. This one terabyte of hard disk space will be a first for a laptop -- and should give you enough memory to carry around at least the vast majority of your media collection. With enough space for 350 feature length movies or 250,000 four-minute ...

First they got flat, then they got big, and now, with nowhere else to go, TVs are getting thin, thin, thin! At least that's the trend we're extracting from all of the ultra-slim TVs on display at CEATEC, the annual Japanese consumer electronics show we're currently checking out in Tokyo. Take a look at the above-pictured Hitachi super-flat 32-inch LCD-TV prototype, which, at just .72-inches ...