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NEC Outs World’s First Contactless Hybrid Finger Scanner
NEC has commercially unveiled the world’s first Contactless Hybrid Finger Scanner that can simultaneously acquire fingerprint and finger vein characteristics without any physical contact. Hailed as HS100-10’s, the device makes it difficult for impostors to circumvent the authorization system. Also its contact-less sensor is sturdy against the characteristics of fingers that are exceedingly dry or…
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NEC introduces 7-mm thick Medias N-04C phone
Phones getting slim has a lot to do with style as well. When you’d think of a nerd-central manufacturer like NEC it wouldn’t seem too promising an aspect to see a sleek and sexy phone coming on. However, what we do see in the Medias N-04C is the potential to be among the slimmest phone…
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NEC Japan Doles out its First Android Netbook, Lifetouch Note
NEC Japan has unveiled their first Android Netbook by the name LifeTouch Note. Driven by android 2.2, the netbook packs in nVidia Tegra 2 CPU, a 7-inch touchscreen with an 800×480 resolution, a GPS sensor, an accelerometer, 2MP camera, and an SHDC memory card slot. The device will three siblings with the first one featuring…
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NEC just found a super fast way to convert analog to HD, Hooray!
NEC Japan has developed a way to convert standard analog video imagery to HD that’s 17 times faster than any regular method that’s currently available. Just one hour of video can be converted to HD in a matter of 10 hours. Just so you know, if you’re new to this, it would usually take about…
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NEC Docomo Pro N-08B can pass off as a mini notebook rather than a mobile phone
NEC has a new portable ‘Communicator’ styled handset under their Docomo Pro Series, designed for Japan’s NTT Docomo. It’s called the N-08B. Just like the Nokia Communicators of old, the N-08B will also features a large (4.6-inch) widescreen display on the inside coupled with a full QWERTY keyboard. It’s going to be quite like the…
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NEC’s new LaVie S range of laptops are locked and loaded for the ladies on the go
NEC is gearing up to unleash their LaVie S notebooks with reportedly come loaded with a Core i5 CPU option. The ‘S’ in the name stands for ‘Slim’ as the new upgraded series is just 35mm and weigh in at 2.4kg. Three models will be launched viz. the LS150, the LS350, and the LS550 which…
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NEC’s cashier is a robotic wonder
Departmental stores do not need to rely on those creepy looking kids who come in to be cashiers, as part of their summer-job stints. They have got themselves a cool new robot that does the job just as well. However, this one seems to have a slightly tortuous description that goes something like, ‘provide verbal…
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A remote control without batteries
NEC Electronics has joined hands with Soundpower Corp to bring forth the first ‘battery-less’ remote control. The underlying technology involves a vibration based power generation device (from Soundpower) and a microcomputer (from NEC) that has RF remote controls that span a large frequency range and finally a power supply control technology that gets circuits working…
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NEC N-02B the fastest loading camera phone from the East
Like the Fujitsu F-01B even the NEC N-02B is a clamshell and packs in 12 Megapixel camera. But unlike other multi megapixel camera phones which take a few seconds to initialize and start this one gets the job going in just 0.8 seconds. It recognizes the photography scene automatically and then adjusts the brightness, sensitivity…
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Tele Scouter: Wearable text translator by NEC
NEC have developed a one-of-a-kind wearable translator. Though the device is still in its primitive, prototype days, it surely impresses us immensely with its real-time language translation capability. The optical device has to be worn over the eye and can project translated text directly on the retina. It’s called the Tele Scouter. Though it leaves…