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I have been thinking about the recently anounced cell processor and robots, I think it will be excellent to use it in them. Remember that 2 of the companies involved in the development of the cell are toshiba and sony , and those two companies are developing/sell robots. The parallelism that that the cell will provide will be excellent. Imagine an APU dealing with some pattern recognition algorithms while other deals with voice recognition and so on .... I start to see a future with home robots made by sony, industrial robots by toshiba and business equipment by IBM .... here some links to robots

1. The DVD Consortium is now called the DVD Forum, so there is no "official DVD Consortium Document" any more.
   
2. The DVD Forum does not unambiguously specify what DVD stands for. The best you'll find on their site is the answer to the question, "What does DVD mean?", which they answer, "The keyword is "versatile." Digital Versatile discs provide superb video, audio and data storage and access -- all on one disc."
   
3. When the DVD Forum refers to the physical medium on which music, video, and data are stored, they always spell it "disc," and not "disk."
   

Let's not forget Toshiba Nuclear Power.

dpreview has an blurb that is much more comprehensive. And, to spread the hits, you can see the original press release The content of the two links is the same, only the background color and periphery information is different. (dpreview is black; toshiba is white)

Novell is putting a lot of money and engineers behind Openswan. Other vendors are getting on board too.

Will it be as big as KAME's list of corporations? KAME's list:
Fujitsu Limited
Hitachi, Ltd.
Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
NEC Corporation
Toshiba Corporation
Yokogawa Electric Corporation

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He placed the hat upon the glass floor, made a pass with his hand, and then removed the hat, displaying a little white piglet no bigger than a mouse, which began to run around here and there and to grunt and squeal in a tiny, shrill voice He reached up, caught Rob by the heels, and pulled him down to the ground, away from the fire

The people watched it intently, for they had never seen a pig before, big or little But the next moment, as he clung to the boy's feet, they both soared into the air again, and, although now far enough from the fire to escape its heat, the savage, finding himself lifted from the earth, uttered a scream of horror and let go of Rob, to fall head over heels upon the ground

all serial numbers are logged to each bank (as they are)

Serial numbers on cash are only logged by the Federal Reserve when shipping an order of new currency to a bank. It would be extrordinarily difficult for a bank to record the serial numbers on incoming deposits. Especially business deposits, which are normally shipped via amoured courier directly to a processing center. These deposits can have anywhere from 1 - 25000 bills.
The deposits are counted by large Toshiba currency sorters (Toshiba

Most banks are more worried about the volume of counted bills rather than capturing the serial number off the bill... It would simply take too long.

Some chip vendors are still selling millions of 4-bit processors per year. You'd better be ready to order at least a half million or so for them to mask your code, of course.

Something I found of interesting on the japan version of the Toshiba website: World's First Small Form Factor Direct Methanol Fuel Cell for Portable PCs... this was a press release from March 5, 2003

It says that the current prototype can operate for approximately five hours on 50cc of high concentration methanol with an average 12 watts of output with a max of 20 watts. They have the aim of product commercialization within 2004.

They mention that part of the problem is that the optimum methanol/water ratio is 3% to 6%, but they overcame this by using waste water to dilute the incoming methanol solution... cool.

So, yeah, it is vaporware, but is a cool concept... if you don't have the ability to do fuel cell with your current laptop, you could get a docking station version.

I'm curious though... what is the average usage of a laptop... something tells me 12 watts is not enough.

It seems to me we need more synchronous condensers to absorb fluctuations, not more protective devices.

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Here are some images of the device:

Trilobite Images

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Dreamweaver Templates

Check out its stunning personality here. It bleeps, bloops, and whines while cleaning, which makes it about fifty times as personable as I am while I'm doing my chores.

This promotional site has been up for quite some time, so I had no idea it would take so long to get the Trilobite to market. Personally, I'd prefer a cuttlefish-like robot that swims around my sink and cleans my dishes while blub-blub-blubbing.

This already exists, more or less, in the form of the Toshiba HopBit. And I think that Toshiba's smarter than Intel in positioning their personal server as an accessory for PDA's rather than as a replacement for them. A box with no screen doesn't have very much sex appeal, and people like to be able to access information on the go, so people will probably buy these things mostly to serve as video storage for their Tungsten T's and iPaqs.

I managed to get my hands on an older Libretto ff 1100. Absolutely awesome. It's a little old, so it runs a P266 w/ 128 ram, and boots win98 by default. The thing also has a USB port, SmartCard slot, and PCMCIA slot. It has a decent usable keyboard. Screen res is 800x480, which is, for me, fine to read on. I actually had to decrease the font size though to fit configuration windows on the screen (sometimes its just too short, and nobody designs programs for 640x480 screens anymore). Unfortunately, it was never sold in the US (except by Dynamism.com). Bablefished page is here (original). Scroll down for pics. The little orange thing on the right side of the screen is the mouse. The two buttons are on the back of the screen. Very usable, and original. Too bad you can't get these anywhere anymore. I run Linux on mine, with no problems.

I was advised to buy one there, since 'internat' warranties don't seem to work very well, according to many stories.

Toshiba sells Eng models delivered.
beep

If you find any other brands, let us know where their sites are.

I really liked the look of the new toshiba robot, it looks like it can do more than interact with a doll house, which seems to be the design criteria behind these tiny humanoid bots.

802.11, LCD screen, and voice recognition could make it a very cool extension of your PC. It can find you, show (or read) your email, let you send replies via voice, etc. If your PC is connected to your entertainment system if could be a rolling video jukebox. Have it display your divx collection and send a signal to the PC to play the video on the TV.

There's a lot a "PC on wheels" can do now with 802.11b and broadband. I think the "ethernet everwhere" crowd would be better served by a central and movable programmable device than putting an ethernet card in the fridge and in the toaster.

A real usable robot will not look like a man, it will look like an appliance. Preferably with a cup holder and magazine rack. Oh, and a vaccum attachment would be nice too.

When these bots are able to do something other than be bots for the sake of being bots then we'll be seeing some real innovation.

Reference site(written in Japanese)
Site for GIGA BEAT developers http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/GIGABEAT
Applet development information for GIGABEAT
(The software use consent contract (library) and the software use consent contract (sample source) are described.)
http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/GIGABEAT/develop_en try
The support page of Toshiba Linux http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/indexj.htm
Toshiba GIGA BEAT product page http://www.toshiba.co.jp/mobileav/audio/
2channel(famous Japanese BBS) http://pc.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/linux/1038780907/

NTT Docomo foma stuff pics

Then there's J-phone's video sha-mail which is more like animated-gif mail... but hey.

AU/KDDI's A5301T Toshiba brand video yay.

Costs five bajillion gazillion jillion yen... monthly as Dr. Evil-san and those companies know.

They've had phones like the J-T06 in Japan for a while (last year?)
Warning: site's in Japanese

3 interesting things about this phone:

1) It is bluetooth enabled, and Toshiba has just announced a pocket sized bluetooth 5GB hard drive called the Pocket Server which means that you should be able to stream data back and forth from this P800 puppy quite easily

and

2) Sony Ericsson have come up with a technology called TrickleSynch (which uses what they call SynchML)which will basically continually synch your data from phone to base using the always on GPRS 2.5G system. So theoretically you will be able to synch all your data overnight while you're sleeping.

3) The company claims that the battery life will be around 12 hours of normal use, with 400 hours on standby. The design criteria was apparently to provide a product which only needed charging once a day or less under normal phone/PDA use. They claim to have achieved this by using a battery which is more powerful than the iPaq and by developing in-house a special low power screen.

The phone is very cool, and not much bigger than my Nokia 8890, and the handwriting recognition actually seems to work, which is even more amazing.

The Toshiba 1.8-inch 10GB drives are 5mm thick, and available in 10mm 20GB. The 5GB drive in the iPod is the earlier generation of them, I think.

LTPS (low temperature polycrystalline silicon)is a new technology that improves the quality of small LCDs (e.g., for handhelds). Supposedly Sony, Toshiba (watch out for the fonts), and Sanyo are early adopters and should start mass production in 2002. Palm-3D-games anyone?

In Japan, Toshiba sells a PVR with a built-in DVD recorder, allowing for easy archiving. I wonder when we'll see that here (where here=anywhere but Japan).

From the Toshiba Spec Page (http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2001_07/e160 1/doc02.htm)

SD card slot supporting single SD Memory card or SDIO card

• SD Memory card security function not supported
• Data enctypted to the SD Memory card security function not supported

The official Toshiba press release for the device.

Also the new Toshiba site for the genio-e unfortunatly in Japanesse only for now.

Toshiba announced it developped a prototype oled screen, using ink-jet technology.


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The 3440 has already been released in Japan.

OK, the page is in Japanese, but you can still look at the pretty pictures...

Skip the suits in the USA. Being American corporatre executives, they are morons.

Send your feedback directly to Japan, by using this link and form:

https://www2.toshiba.co.jp/c ontact/cgi-bin/request.cgi

HarryZ