Freestyle AQUOS: Sharp Japan rolls out 4 portable, wireless, ultra-slim LCD TVs

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Sharp Japan updated their line of AQUOS LCD TVs in the AQUOS series of so-called F5 freestyle [JP]. Four TVs in this series, sized at 20/32/40 and 60 inches are a few general points of sale: they are very thin, light (one of them is the "portable") and the network.

60-inch flagship model (pictured above and below) comes with UV2A Panel with full HD resolution, led backlight, contrast ratio, 000000, 000000 1: 1, viewing angle of 176-degre, 2x10W speakers, HDMI interface, two USB ports (connecting external hard drives is possible) and Ethernet. It weighs 21 kg and 2.1 cm thin part (3.5 cm thickness).

32 and 40-inch models share basic characteristics, but it is much easier (8.5 and 5.5 kg, respectively), which has prompted Sharp choose the term "freestyle" series (the company says they can be moved and installed anywhere).

As 32-inch AQUOS 20-inch model only offers a 1366 × 780 resolution. Small TV series based on the model of sharp, revealed earlier this year and weighs 2.5 kg. For an additional $ 80 you can associate users to hook it he really portable (see below).

All models have in common — IEEE 802.11 n/IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi and a wireless device, such as for Sharp AQUOS Blu-ray players or smartphones and various services video on demand, and YouTube.

Sharp plans to start selling its new TVs in Japan next month (prices: $4,930 for the largest model, $ 1,950 for 40-incher, $ 1430 32-inch model and $1040 for the little one).

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Fujitsu IS12T Windows phone mango launched in Japan today (fast service)

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Last month, Fujitsu in Japan unveiled IS12T, declared the first cellphone running on Windows phone 7.5 aka mango. And the country's second largest mobile carrier (and exclusive supplier of phone) KDDI au, not losing a lot of time: IS12T became available today, and here (this is Fujitsu, official press release in English today).

As we reported earlier, mango tubes, comes with a 3.7 inch LCD 800 × 480 resolution, 13.2 MP CMOS camera, the body is water and shock proof 32 GB internal memory, support the microUSB port, IEEE 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi (do not bind), DLNA, GSM/CDMA, etc.

There are nine languages for user interface, and IS12T is available in three colors "Neon" (citrus fruits, black, purple).

I went to the store only a mobile phone in my area today, having a look at the phone, but unfortunately, I got a few pictures (see above) and play around with it for a few minutes before I had to leave (not video photo no).

My first impression was that the phone itself felt light and thin, but very cheap and plasticky (I couldn't give Xbox Live, Internet Explorer and other apps spin because Wi-Fi and 3 G have been turned off – within a few minutes, I played with it, the UI felt great).

Price-Wise IS12T is located at the upper end of the spectrum for mobile phones in Japan: storage (and all other retailers, for that matter) implements the phone up to $955 (but with steep discounts in certain circumstances). So if Fujitsu really starts selling mobile phone outside Japan (they have international plans), don't expect it will be a budget model.

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HP begins to manufacture laptops in Japan

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HP has sparked a surge of major (and not only) in the world of technology, where the world's largest computer maker, announced last week that it plans to spin off its business PC. But one country that has always been a unique market for many companies, apparently gets special treatment: Japan.

We reported back in June that HP will move on the part of notebook manufacturing from China to Japan, and it looks like the company's decision last week does not affect this plan. Today, HP actually started manufacturing these devices in its factory in Akishima, Tokyo.

During the press conference, Takafumi Oka, VP at HP Japan, said that he thinks that pulling the plug on business computer it would be a mistake on the part of his company, and that instead, HP should explore other options.

So far, the plant used to produce desktop PCs. The original notebooks intended for sale to domestic enterprises, followed by the model for the general consumer market produced by the end of this year. Purpose-slash delivery time at 50% of up to five days.

At this time, HP produces most of its computers and related products in China.

Via PC Watch [JP]

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RoboCar MEV C: Japan gets new robot car

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Robot, Tokyo-based venture EXAM CALENDAR and churned out another robot car: this time it's so-called RoboCar MEW-C, which is based on the km car Toyota began back in 2000. In the same way as km MEW-C — one man, 4-wheeled electric mini car-only with a twist of robots.

EXAM CALENDAR and says the car actually can be driven around, but the company is actually marketing as an object of study of roboticists, universities and car manufacturers.

While regular km is quite a simple electric car, the EXAM CALENDAR and added quite a few features to make it more sexier: stereo camera, motion sensor wireless 9 axis, GPS unit, temperature and humidity sensor, laser range sensor, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 3 G and the so-called Protocol CAN (Control Area Network) as the "open platform" that allows customers to access each piece of hardware.

RoboCar MEW-C is 2.3 × 1.0 × 1.6 m and weighs 310 kg. EXAM CALENDAR and has already started to sell it, priced in United States $ 35 000.

Via Robonable [JP]

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Japan to get Android-based ' Yahoo phone» next month

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Japan Gets Android-based ' Yahoo phone "[JP]: that may seem strange at first, this is actually not surprising news, given that Yahoo is a great website. Add the fact that the country's third-largest mobile carrier SoftBank mobile phone provider, is the largest shareholder of Yahoo Japan, and the appearance of this phone makes even more sense.

The phone is manufactured by Sharp and rebranded version of the so-called "AQUOS phone premium SoftBank 009SH" [JP], the company revealed a few weeks ago. It contains the Android 2.3 as OS, 4-inch LCD with QHD resolution 8MP CMOS camera, Bluetooth 3.0, IEEE 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, microSDHC card slot, a digital TV tuner, e purse features an infrared link, etc.

Buyers can expect to find selected Android applications and services from Yahoo Japan, are installed on your device, such as Yahoo Japan, Yahoo Japan auctions, calendar, dictionary, Yahoo Loco (lb), etc.

SoftBank selection mobile phone subscribers are members of the premium Yahoo Japan free of charge for two years (instead of having to pay $ 4.50 per month) and you can also get extra points for every purchase made on purchase of Yahoo over the next two years.

SoftBank will distribute Yahoo phone in Japan at the end of next month.

Sorry for the thumbnail – we will add more when we get them.

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After the fall of the prices of Japan: Nintendo sells 215 K 3DS units in 7 days

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Nintendo has sparked a surge in the world of video games, when he announced the price slash the 3DS in Japan, the United States and other countries at 30-40% (depending on country) – only a few months after the system went on sale.

And now we have the first equipment sales numbers from Japan, and it looks like casual gaming on social networks, increase freemium and all these apps for free/inexpensive Smartphone made consumers more price sensitive in recent years.

According to the video game magazine publisher Enterbrain Nintendo managed to sell a whopping 215 000 units 3DS 8 and 14 August. Price drop (from 25 000 yen to 15 000 yen) entered into force on 11 August (but quite a few shops in Japan actually taken several days earlier).

For comparison: Nintendo's Japan shipped more than 350 000 units a week after launch (and approximately 200 000 a week afterwards), means falling prices caused a sort of second beginning in that country to the system (in may, for example, only 109 000 3DS were sold on the domestic market).

A total of 1.5 million 3DS systems were sold in Japan so far.

Via Famitsu [JP]

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Japan invest $ 1.3 billion in new supercomputer

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There is a list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world, and the last time it was updated back in June of this year, Fujitsu "K" (pictured) come out on top, taking place no. 1 from ANT 1A (supercomputer from China).

It was the first time since 2004 for Japan to claim those bragging rights and now the country's largest business newspaper Nikkei reports that the Government is already thinking about what would happen in 2020: by the time the plan is to develop, on a computer that handles the exascale computing or, in other words, one million trillion operations per second (this computer will be 100 times more powerfulthan K).

MEXT, Japan's Ministry of science is a score that can be up to $ 1.3 billion and has already roped in NEC, Fujitsu and Government Agency RIKEN to discuss details of the project. The goal is to make sure Japan remains on top in the race a supercomputer, as other countries invest, too. In February, the Government of the United States, for example, set aside $ 126 million for the development of exascale supercomputer in the budget for fiscal 2012.

Supercomputers are used for prediction of earthquakes and other natural disasters, climate change, to explore outer space, etc.

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Harvesting energy from the radio signals: Two new devices from Japan (video)

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Gleaning electricity from radio signals are not super efficient (or new concept), but it is possible technically. Two companies from Japan has recently come up with new devices that can do just that: a harvesting energy from the cell phone signals, another uses a rectifying antenna (Rectenna) for energy production.

Firstly the device [JP] recently announced Tokyo electronic device can pick up radio signals from cell phones between 800 Mhz and convert them into electricity (800 Mhz frequency is used in mobile phones in Japan). The company says that users can expect to get to 2.5 free milliamperes (stored in the small lithium ion battery).

Device gathers signals from other wireless gadgets, too, and it can provide a few minutes running time is built into tablets and laptops (that's better than nothing). Tokyo Electron markets as "green" product and collaborates with the American company Powercast in its development.

We do not have this device, but professional video shot of the next one, recently developed Rectenna from the Tokyo-based Nihon Dengyo Kosaku. Device (pictured above) itself has two main points of sale: he is thin (12 mm to collect signals from Wi-Fi and 30 mm for digital terrestrial broadcasting waves) and needs just 50 µW authorities begin.

Nihon Dengyo said that their Rectenna can get power in micro Watt range from Wi-Fi signals at a distance of about 10 cm, enough to power sensors, for example. The device can be used both inside and outside buildings.

Here's the video (shot by Diginfonews in Tokyo in English), which provides better:

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