NEC boffins develop 3D paint, spray it on laptops
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For once, worth watching it dry? NEC designers must have been working overtime if its latest creation is anything to go by: a coloured casing for its LaVie compact notebook with a unique 3D optical effect.â¦
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Sharp designs and colors fight the impression made by older devices.
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Company outlines plans for Yonah notebook processor, demonstrates desktop chip.
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'Teraflops research chip' provides tremendous horsepower for designing and testing future PCs.
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To stay competitive as outsourcers, firms are developing reusable components for business applications.
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Addition of high-end graphics to computers based on open-source platform helps company go beyond its proprietary products.
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Notebook PC makers are stretching the boundaries of light-weight and low-cost computing.
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(InfoWorld) - NEC launched its latest laptop PC on Tuesday with a splash. A bottle of water was poured over the computer while it was operating to demonstrate its toughness to harsh environmental conditions. The "Shield Pro" FC-N21S laptop is rated to IP54, an environmental protection rating developed by the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC). IP54 signifies that the machine is protected against ingress of dust at levels that would harm operation and also against splashes of water from all directions. It can also be dropped from waist height onto a hard surface and survive, as NEC also demonstrated at a Tokyo news conference. NEC guarantees the machine will be safe when dropped as long as its a drop of fewer than 90 centimeters, the machine is switched off and the lid folded down. The computer has a 12.1-inch touch panel LED-backlit screen and is a convertible-type laptop, which means the screen can be flipped around and folded down on the keyboard so that it resembles a tablet PC. At its heart is an Intel Core Solo processor running at 1.2GHz. NEC looked at using a Core Duo processor but the desire to keep the PC fanless meant that it wasn't possible to use a more powerful chip because of the amounts of heat that it would generate. Users can choose between a 60GB Serial ATA or 40GB Ultra ATA hard-disk drive. Users also get to choose between Windows XP Professional or Linux as the operating system. The machine will go on sale in Japan in January for between Â¥250,000 and Â¥300,000 ($2,165 and $2,600). NEC is still considering its international sales plans. In March several new models will be launched including a laptop that can stand up to a wider range of temperatures than the standard model. It will be able to operate at between -20 degrees Celsius and 50 degrees Celsius. A model with an 8GB solid state disk made up of flash memory chips will also be available. Â
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BOFFINS AND boffinettes at Imperial College London are developing a new optical disk that can store a terabyte of data. The Multiplexed Optical Data Storage (Mods)technology is expected to be released towards
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NEC has unveiled its latest supercomputer, which is almost twice as fast as the BlueGene/L machine rolled out by IBM in September.
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A new form of carbon being pioneered by Walter de Heer could lead to speedy, compact computer processors.
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Alienware designs a laptop so slick you'll beg it to probe you; a docking station for the PSP misses the point and an all-in-one printer frees up more desk space for pictures of your cat. All in this week's Gadget Lab.
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The company claims to have developed a new technology that uses plastic instead of glass. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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Chip maker National Semiconductor Inc. is rolling out hardware devices designed to make desktop and laptop PCs more secure. The Santa Clara, Calif.
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HD DVD writers, Intel Penryn processors, and 1 terabyte of storage are among the features coming to new laptops near you.
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A new inexpensive nanoglue that becomes stronger as it heats up could redefine the way computer chips are made.
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JAPANESE TIN maker NEC has released a mass produced supercomputer computer which it claims knocks the socks off Big Blue&#39;s Blue Gene/L.