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Coventry University to play key role in bringing self-driving vehicles to city
Flying car hovers during Japanese demonstration
Gadget Show Live 2013: Finlux Direct unveils 47inch Smart TV with 3D for £799
Back in the 1990s Finlux was a reasonably big brand owned by Nokia. They made pretty interesting TVs, several boasting built in satellite receivers and the quality was generally very good. Now the brand is owned by Turkish company Vestel…
Gadget Show Live 2013: Sunnycam demonstrates £99 HD recording eyewear
With smart glasses like Google Glass and wearable fitness devices set to hit 70 million sales by 2017 according to a report from Juniper, one company that is hoping to get in on the action is Sunnycam. At this year's…
NEC LifeTouch L tablets revealed
It's not just Microsoft revealing new tablets today, but NEC too. They've just revealed their LifeTouch L range, available in either business or consumer configurations, just like Microsoft's Surface. Both running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), the consumer model comes…
NEC to bring 3D TV to your mobile phone
NEC is to demo some concept tech over in the heart of Barcelona at MWC in just over a week’s time. Their brainwave is to put 3D technology onto the 3.1″ screen of a mobile phone.
It’s a prototype which they’ve been working on since the beginning of last year and, naturally, it doesn’t require glasses to view. No word as whether…
NEC launches 19-inch LCD monitor with built-in carbon footprint meter
Business users wanting a visual reminder of how much energy their computer equipment is eating up might be interested in NEC’s new EA191M 19-inch LCD monitor, which comes fitted with a carbon footprint meter…
NEC launches NP905 projector with wireless networking and MPEG2 USB playback
NEC has announced its NP905 projector, aimed primarily at the business and educational sectors, which offers wireless networking and MP£G2 playback from USB devices.
The NP905 offers 3,000 ANSI lumens of brightness, 500:1 contrast ratio, HQV (Hollywood Quality Video) technology for higher quality images, 1.2-times optical zoom, keystone correction, 3D Reform function which compensates for diagonal distortion, and wall colour correction which alters the colour balance dependent upon what surface is being projected on to…
Sony/NEC predicts sub-$100 Blu-ray drives for PCs by year end
In the ongoing push to make Blu-ray hardware more affordable, SonyNEC Optiarc (a joint collaboration between Sony and NEC) has predicted that Blu-ray drives for desktop PCs, capable of reading Blu-ray Discs and reading and writing DVDs and CDs, could go for under $100 (about £60) by the end of 2008.
It’s worth bearing in mind that this is most likely to be a wholesale price for PC manufacturers. Similar drives for notebook PCs could hit the $150 level, while Blu-ray burners will be priced in the region of $150-$200…
Forget EDGE, 3G and HSDPA: mobile manufacturers are now planning for 4G
Nokia, Sony Ericsson, NEC and Alcatel-Lucent have all sat down and formed a licensing framework for a new mobile standard called Long Term Evolution, which can be shortened to LTE, or simply 4G as that makes things much easier to follow…
