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Is seems they plan on distrubuting content through kiosks and the internet, as well as selling smartcards with content already on it.

They plan on selling music, videos, comics, e-books, and photographs.
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20030204/ am3_13.htm

The product's price seems resonable at 2800yen ($28.46US) for the device. The 32MB Smartcard will be 2,000yen ($16.75), and individual content will cost 200yen ($1.68).

Another interesting thing is that since Palm uses Arm7 processors and SDs that content will probably be compatible with Palm devices at a later date.

Links: (In Japanese)
Gamspot Japan
http://www.zdnet.co.jp/gamespot/gsnews/0302/04/new s05.html
Watch Impress
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20030204/ am3.htm
Offical Page
http://www.am3.co.jp/

A Japanese site has the new roadmap. It has all the information about what quarter the different chips will come out.

Here

At Oct.22, Sharp coporation announced CG silicon technology.
CG silicon(continuous grain silicon) has continuity at grain boundary. Movement factor of electron is 600 times of that of amorphous silicon.

Z80 CPU implemented on a glass
Z80 on a glass is really working on a MZ-80 computer
CG silicon has high movement factor of electoron
Road map of System LCD architecture

Here

At Oct.22, Sharp coporation announced CG silicon technology.
CG silicon(continuous grain silicon) has continuity at grain boundary. Movement factor of electron is 600 times of that of amorphous silicon.

Z80 CPU implemented on a glass
Z80 on a glass is really working on a MZ-80 computer
CG silicon has high movement factor of electoron
Road map of System LCD architecture

Here

At Oct.22, Sharp coporation announced CG silicon technology.
CG silicon(continuous grain silicon) has continuity at grain boundary. Movement factor of electron is 600 times of that of amorphous silicon.

Z80 CPU implemented on a glass
Z80 on a glass is really working on a MZ-80 computer
CG silicon has high movement factor of electoron
Road map of System LCD architecture

Here

At Oct.22, Sharp coporation announced CG silicon technology.
CG silicon(continuous grain silicon) has continuity at grain boundary. Movement factor of electron is 600 times of that of amorphous silicon.

Z80 CPU implemented on a glass
Z80 on a glass is really working on a MZ-80 computer
CG silicon has high movement factor of electoron
Road map of System LCD architecture

Here

At Oct.22, Sharp coporation announced CG silicon technology.
CG silicon(continuous grain silicon) has continuity at grain boundary. Movement factor of electron is 600 times of that of amorphous silicon.

Z80 CPU implemented on a glass
Z80 on a glass is really working on a MZ-80 computer
CG silicon has high movement factor of electoron
Road map of System LCD architecture

Here's a link: http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2002/1112/sharp 1.htm You speak japanese, right?

Besides, it goes so well with the one perfect shape for furniture.

Some more images. Image. Page. Front, buttons, ports.

but you cannot forget that they are a world leader in robotics applications

but you cannot forget that they are a world leader in robotics applications

Well, it's only to be expected since we have the cube (purist link) and the sphere.

Here's a nice, big photograph of the TP 710T for moderators who modded this as a troll. I have a 710T at home.

Enjoy!

front view
screen: menu
screen: website
screen: gps mapping
A phone (with Cadias printed on it?)

Enjoy!

front view
screen: menu
screen: website
screen: gps mapping
A phone (with Cadias printed on it?)

Enjoy!

front view
screen: menu
screen: website
screen: gps mapping
A phone (with Cadias printed on it?)

Enjoy!

front view
screen: menu
screen: website
screen: gps mapping
A phone (with Cadias printed on it?)

Enjoy!

front view
screen: menu
screen: website
screen: gps mapping
A phone (with Cadias printed on it?)

Remember the Acorn RiscPC? The most expandable case design ever.
Start with a pizzabox with 1 CD drive 1 floppy drive. Then if you need more room, just add slices until you have behemoth server case!
Would this be possible? Of course, you would new motherboard standard, with riser plates for PCI.
Just a thouhgt. (Oh and the RiscPC was quiet, no fans whatsoever needed!)

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20020904/so ny0194.jpg

Is it a preview of recorded shows that are stored on a HD or a tv guide-like service with previews? Anyone know for sure?

What looks like a fan is clearly visible in the photo of the back of the unit here.

I'll be interesting to see how noisy the box is -I for one wouldn't want to fork out $1000 if it sounds like a vacuum cleaner.

Even if it it reasonably quiet, it can't be silent. Surely the future is in solutions that network home appliances like this to a box with lots of hard disks and fans that can sit making as much noise as it likes, so long as it's not in the living room where I want to listen to my music? It would make the prices of things drop significantly, too.

It's all Flash animation, which means I can't run it through babelfish, but ...

http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/CSV/

Can someone who reads Japanese click on the "My Net Communication" and translate the text? Looks like it's programmable through the net (cool).

Also, what is this image all about? That's a weird looking GUI for a channel guide!

Sony has optical pickups that do both DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW as mentioned on this site it is in japanese also but you can use babelfish or just look at the pictures.

So it will only "draw" on unused parts of the disk, basically taking up space... crap.

Don't they mean literally the unused part -- the space in between the pits that the laser writes?

Look at this picture here:

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/hotline/20020 622/image/nya2.html

What's up with the girl on the left side of this picture, is she a new digital booth-girl they're demoing? Full digital!! Currently available with only very low resolutions, but check out the framerate!!

Like this
And yes, it looks like a handle and it's designed to be used as one. It's not only decoration. Harald

The correct URL of the second is
HERE

Pictures to give an impression of size near the bottom of this page:
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pc/docs/2002/0311/s ony3.htm

More interesting descriptions...
http://www.zdnet.co.jp/mobile/0203/11/n_vaiou.html

Babel Fish can help you with the Japanese text:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/

~v

By the way, the revolutionary part about this laptop is that it uses a mechanical pump to move the hot coolant to the radiation panel at the back of the LCD, whereas traditional cooling mechanisms uses the palmrest and/or the bottom of the laptop to dissipate heat in addition to the air fan. The idea is that

• a pump is much more reliable than a fan, because it doesn't move as fast or ingest foreign dust particles all the time; and
• 2) heating the back of the LCD affects the user experience less than with the palmrest or the bottom.

Also, before people start screaming about how big the water tanks are in the photos, the article says that the tanks were deliberately enlarged to emphasize the point of these prototypes, and they will be reduced in production models.

http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/stapa/0,161 6,4140,00.html

Everyone thank our friends at google for this link. Not a mirror, but a start.

I couldn't get that link to work... but here's another Kanji page with pics...

http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/column/stapa/2001/05/01 /

Find it here.
Apparently it's from the 2002 International CES. The page it's from is in Japanese, but has several other pics showing front/back/side.

Oh, here's one more, even closer up, from SuperSite.

Find it here.
Apparently it's from the 2002 International CES. The page it's from is in Japanese, but has several other pics showing front/back/side.

Oh, here's one more, even closer up, from SuperSite.

J-Phone in Japan already has camera phones. Right now you can only take still pictures though. Here is the phone I got. I just wish I could use it in the US.

warning... The page is in japanese, but pictures are universal

... Assuming the Linux that ships for the PS2 has some form of USB support, the possibilities are limitless. Native support with games for keyboards, mice, PC steering wheels & certainly other peripherals is already quite strong.

Then there's the whole firewire IEEE 1394 which the console supports, the possibilities are limitless.

Some pictures of the Japanese PS2 Hard Disk Drive & Ethernet Unit. http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20010719/ hdd.htm Use the Fish!

Official site -- Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.

IGN Review of DII LOD. Very good review, plenty o' screenshots.

The Japanese point of view on Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.

It has tens of pictures of REAL and working Dual Socket A motherboards, with a nice bit of information. Of course, it is in Japanese, but the pictures are *great*.
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sorry that post was wrong.. here's a link to a picture of the board here i can't find the original page i read this on

In Japanese, but has pictures

Apparantly "HTTP fGf[ 404" is Japanese for "Slashdotted."

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/hotline/20010 310/etc_ib750.html

In Japanese, but has pictures
Manufacturers page, with english specs

Now what is 55,000 Yen in decent currencies? Is it around $500? This board also has two Intel network chips, which would cost about $200 for a dual network PCI card. Also has 64MB of memory installed. One PCI slot and one micro-PCI. Two parallel, 2 USB, 2 IDE, 1 floppy and audio. No graphics, you will have to use a PCI card, like a Voodoo5500, if you want graphics.

Not to be completely obnoxious, but please take a look at the damn picture before you go spouting off about something you know nothing about. If you care to look at the picture (the url is: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pc/docs/article/200 10124/17.jpg , in case you never felt the need to go there), there are four IDE connectors on the board, the two at the top are most likely connected to the VIA Apollo Pro 266 chipset (which is in fact ATA/100), and the other two are strangely positioned next to a label that says "IDE RAID" if you look closely. So, not only is there IDE RAID, but I am quite certain there is no ATA/33 or ATA/66 on this board.

The board in question isn't a SocketA (479) Athlon board... it's a dual FC370 P3 board, hence the name "Apollo Pro 266" on the sticker by the box, the Apollo name is given to Via's P3 range rather than their 'KT100' or 'KT266' type names given to Via's Athlon chipsets.

There this 760MP based board from Tyan shown in the article. Only four DIMM's though...

There seems to be an ISA slot on the board of this VIA board referenced in the article (for a Cyrix CPU, no less).

And here's the pic

Intel moves to .13 in 8 months? I would like to see that..

Here's the latest roadmap, in Japanese pastel no less.

8 months at the earliest--i.e. Q3 of next year. And that's for Tualatin, their .18->.13 die shrink of the P3. Northwood, the .13 P4, isn't due until Q4. (It'll be a lot easier for them to test and get the kinks out of the shrink with an old core that they understand very well than with a new.) Remember, they're already working on the shrink now.

The real story about Intel that their Pentium 4 is being manufactured here in Israel (in Kiryat Gat), and they got LOTS of problems with that (like low numbers of chips on 1 waffer, only 2 machines to product the P4), so until Intel gets more machines to produce those chips - this will take long time.

This story was posted here in the Israeli newspapers..

Well if it was a repeat of this piece at The Register, it may have misinterpreted things. For one thing, 70% yield on a new chip is quite impressive. For another, while a yield of 70,000 chips/week is not enough to substantially affect the x86 market, 70,000 represents more CPUs made in a week (and before launch no less) than there were 1 GHz P3s made for the first 6 months after its "launch"!

In any case, no OEM is going to buy many of the initial P4s, because Intel is planning a packaging change in March or so. That means new motherboards, new systems, and another entire validation process for OEM's--something that most of them are not going to want to waste time doing twice. Thus they'll only offer a couple models, in limited quantities, of the original P4, so it doesn't matter that only limited quantities will be fabbed.

In essence the first P4 will be positioned quite a bit like the original PPro. Whether the Willamette core ends up as successful as the P6 core has (remember, the PPro introduced the core now powering Celeron and P3) will be interesting to see.

On the PC Watch website:

PC Watch: Fujitsu LOOX S/T

And here:

Fujitsu LOOX

Hope this helps...