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  1. Hitachi Developing Reactor That Burns Nuclear Waste

    Science · Science · · posted by samzenpus · from the no-waste-zone dept. · 200 comments
    Zothecula writes The problem with nuclear waste is that it needs to be stored for many thousands of years before it's safe, which is a tricky commitment for even the most stable civilization. To make this situation a bit more manageable, Hitachi, in partnership with MIT, the University of Michigan, and the University of California, Berkeley, is working on new reactor designs that use transuranic nuclear waste for fuel; leaving behind only short-lived radioactive elements.

  2. 3D Display, No Glasses Required

    Hardware · Displays · · posted by timothy · from the lucas-had-this-in-1977 dept. · 285 comments
    Shibatch writes "Hitachi, Ltd has developed a 3D display called Transpost which can be viewed from any direction without wearing special glasses. 3D movies can be seen as floating in the display. Also, 3D movies captured at other places can be shown on the display in realtime. The principle of the device is that 2D images of an object taken from 24 different directions are projected to a special rotating screen. They also developed a camera which can capture images from 24 directions simultaneously." The pictures are interesting, but ... translations, anyone?

  3. OSDL Pays For Linus Torvalds' SCO Defense

    Linux · Caldera · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the man-this-sucks dept. · 347 comments
    geoff313 writes " For all of you who might be worried about what financial consequences Linus Torvalds might have to endure as a result of being subpoenaed by SCO, fear not: the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) will pay for its law firm to represent him. the OSDL, who are Torvalds' employer, will announce on Friday that the "OSDL has agreed to fund legal representation for Torvalds and any other employees of the lab who may become involved in the litigation." Just in case you didn't you didn't know, the OSDL is funded by a variety of corporations including (but not limitied to) IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat, Cisco, Computer Associates, Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Nokia. "

  4. Using Vibrations as a Power Source

    Science · Science · · posted by michael · from the shake-up-the-system dept. · 42 comments
    FnH writes "The Inquirer is reporting that Hitachi has developed a technology capable of generating electricity from natural vibrations. While the amount of electricity generated is small, it could be used in sensors to relay data wirelessly to a computer."

  5. Consumer Electronics Industry: Linux is the Future

    Linux · Linuxbusiness · · posted by michael · from the ping-the-microwave dept. · 263 comments
    securitas writes "The New York Times is carrying a Reuters story about Linux as the software of choice for consumer electronics. At the world's largest consumer electronics show, the IFA trade fair 'the first Linux products are already on show and more will come soon, companies said.' The reason? Linux is freely available, widely embraced and profit margins in the consumer electronics business are one or two percent at best. The math is simple. The industry push comes from the members of the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF), that includes Sony, Philips, Matsushita/Panasonic, Hitachi, Sharp, Samsung, NEC, IBM, LG, Thomson/RCA and Toshiba. The CELF was previously discussed on Slashdot. Mirrors at Silicon.com and CNet News."

  6. Affordable Wearables May Arrive By Christmas

    Hardware · Hardware · · posted by timothy · from the stop-wincing-in-disbelief dept. · 68 comments
    Rhinobird writes: "I was just catching up on some stuff and ran across this article on New Scientist. It describes a new Hitachi wearable computer which is planned for a release of Christmas 2001. More info can be found at Hitachi's site here(1) and here(2)." These will come with Windows CE officially, but unofficially, how long could it take to make them run other OSes as well? At $2000, wearables might finally hit a lot of toylists.

  7. Wearable Internet Appliance

    Toy · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the gargoyle dept. · 67 comments
    z)bandito(_X writes "Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), Shimadzu Corporation, Colorado MicroDisplay, Inc., and Xybernaut Corporation are working on a Wearable Internet Appliance. Looks like it runs Win CE 3.0, but if the price is right it could be a big advance for wearables getting a big manufacturing name like Hitachi in on the game. It's an SH4 processor with Type 2 Compact Flash and an 800x600 display that works with glasses. A good picture of the pretty nice looking device is here, and the specs are here." This looks like a good way to seriously injure yourself.

  8. Wearable Internet Appliance

    Toy · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the gargoyle dept. · 67 comments
    z)bandito(_X writes "Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), Shimadzu Corporation, Colorado MicroDisplay, Inc., and Xybernaut Corporation are working on a Wearable Internet Appliance. Looks like it runs Win CE 3.0, but if the price is right it could be a big advance for wearables getting a big manufacturing name like Hitachi in on the game. It's an SH4 processor with Type 2 Compact Flash and an 800x600 display that works with glasses. A good picture of the pretty nice looking device is here, and the specs are here." This looks like a good way to seriously injure yourself.

  9. Hitachi Digital Camcorder Records To 8cm DVD-RAM

    Hardware · Hardware · · posted by timothy · from the but-you-can't-watch-it-without-MPAA-approval dept. · 94 comments
    theluckman writes: "Hitachi is scheduled to release this digital camcorder in "early 2001". It can record 60 minutes of high quality (6M bps) digital video or 120 minutes of standard quality (3M bps) digital video. Also can store up to 2000 jpg's at 1280x960. All stored on an 8cm DVD-Ram disc (2.8 GB capacity). Add tons of specs and USB support and it seems like what the digital video world has been waiting for." It's sure intriguing, but raises the same pitfalls as Sony's CD-R camera discussed a few months back -- building a camera around a delicate mechanism is a difficult task. I'd be nervous about entrusting important moments to this.

  10. Hitachi Digital Camcorder Records To 8cm DVD-RAM

    Hardware · Hardware · · posted by timothy · from the but-you-can't-watch-it-without-MPAA-approval dept. · 94 comments
    theluckman writes: "Hitachi is scheduled to release this digital camcorder in "early 2001". It can record 60 minutes of high quality (6M bps) digital video or 120 minutes of standard quality (3M bps) digital video. Also can store up to 2000 jpg's at 1280x960. All stored on an 8cm DVD-Ram disc (2.8 GB capacity). Add tons of specs and USB support and it seems like what the digital video world has been waiting for." It's sure intriguing, but raises the same pitfalls as Sony's CD-R camera discussed a few months back -- building a camera around a delicate mechanism is a difficult task. I'd be nervous about entrusting important moments to this.

  11. MPEG Camera now available

    Tech · Technology · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the toys-I-can't-afford dept. · 0 comments
    Wisdom Seeker writes "Hitachi has created a camera that records your movie on a small pcmcia3 harddisk in MPEG format. Very cool. This makes it easy to transfer those home-videos to the web or CD-ROM. Check it out at www.MPEGCam-eu.com " Looks pretty sweet.

  12. Hitachi Makes Breakthrough

    Tech · Technology · · posted by justin++ · from the rapidly-advancing-society? dept. · 0 comments
    Hitachi has made a breakthrough of their own, in a different kind of storage. Hitachi announced they have found a way to reduce the number of electrons needed to store a bit of information in a DRAM chip. The 128MB chips should be coming out soon, and will be perfected in the 16GB (*drool*) generation of chips.