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NEC MultiSync EA190M will be a 5:4 monitor
NEC invokes nostalgia with the release of the latest 5:4 monitor. We are surely dawning the age of new widescreen monitors and with the 16:9 aspect ratio pieces falling into the cliché segment, we really weren’t ready to see something this beautifully primitive. However, NEC thinks otherwise. Aimed at business purposes, the MultiSync EA190M will…
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NEC MultiSync EA231WMi 23″ LCD Monitor
NEC today announced a 23″ LCD display in the American market. The EA231WMi is NEC’s first desktop display exhibiting DisplayPort technology. It also features one-touch button for ECO Mode enabling users to quickly maneuver between two energy-savings modes, as well as the off selection. Additionally, the EA231WMi premieres automated brightness by using an ambient light…
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NEC launches 24-inch LCDs in US
NEC was quick to launch the color-rich 24-inch LCDs in the United States after the Japanese launch. Both the models have 24-inch IPS panels that produce better images than PVA or TN screens and give 96.7 percent coverage of the sRGB color space. They also have 12-bit color lookup tables, ambient light sensors for auto-adjust…
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NEC CRV43 is a curved monitor and costs $8000
This was spotted at CES 2009, NEC’s curved monitor, the CRV43, which was originally named as Ostendo CRVD-42Dwx+. Yup! I will stick to the CRV43 instead. This screen (still figuring out the purpose of the curve) offers 4 DLP displays with a 10,000:1 contrast ratio, .02ms response time, 200cd/m2 brightness and a 2880 x 900…
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NEC launches phones with SRS TruMedia and noise cancelling headphones
The NEC N-01A, N-02A, and N-04A DoCoMo handsets all feature 3-inch screens and 200+ minutes of 3G talk-time. That is not all it features, NEC has decided to integrate noise-cancelling SRS TruMedia. This technology integrated in cell phones will allow users to listen and be heard more clearly, even in very noisy environments. SRS TruMedia…
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Nec LaVie Light – 8.9 inch supercompact lappie
Following the footsteps of Toshiba, Nec Japan has announced a new brand ‘LaVie Light’ which will include superlight and compact notebooks. The first in the series is the ‘BL100/RA’ which comes in a black glossy case and a pearl white keyboard. Powered by an Intel Atom N270 CPU at 1.60GHz it has 1GB of RAM,…
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Nec LaVie J – Sky Crawlers special edition lappie
Anime lovers rejoice Nec Japan has announced a limited edition laptop specially for the flick ‘Sky Crawlers’ by Hiroshi Mori which hit movie screens on Aug 2nd. The 12.1 inch laptop is powered by a Core 2 Duo processor, 1.5GB of RAM and a 120GB hard drive. The first 150 enthusiasts buying the notebook get…
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NEC’s new ad system displays according to who you are
Who you are is quite detrimental to the ad that pops up in front of you, when you come across NEC’s new method of advertising. They have developed a new “digital signage system that determines the gender, generation and other attributes of a person standing in front of a display using a face recognition technology…
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NEC N906i mobile phone with 5 Megapixel camera and smile detection
Japanese telecom major NTTDoCoMo has announced 16 new phones to its lineup and each one is more unique than the other. We first take on the NEC N906i which is an upgrade to last year’s N905i. The clamshell comes with a 5.2 Megapixel sensor along and taking its predecessor’s face detection a step further it…
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NEC develops technology to convert images from low-res to high-res
NEC Research center has developed a technology which can enlarge a low resolution image without distortion and still maintain the image quality. Termed as ‘one super-resolution technology’ the algorithm analyzes and processes the blur and roughness of the image and expands it on the pixel level. NEC aims to use this technology for converting QVGA…
