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Hitachi and NEC partnered up to make the first Water cooling system for Hard Disk Drive that is as quite as a sleeping baby at 25dB. Although the technology is targeted towards audiovisual system, NEC does plan to ship the water-cooled hard drive with its consumer desktop system.
NEC and Hitachi water-cool your HDD [via akihabaranews]
I don’t know about you, but holding a slab of red-hot metal to my ear is not my idea of fun (unless I’m taking part in a Spanish Inquisition reconstruction, in which case it’s no-holds-barred, baby); as cellphones advance in processing power, however, the amount of heat pumped out as a byproduct is growing along [...]
New from NEC are two sexy HDTVs under the brand of “MULTEOS. “ The MULTEOS M40 (40-inch) and M46 (46-inch) are aimed towards businesses but with such a sleek and minimal bezel, they really would look great anywhere.
Both displays feature full HD of 1,920 x 1,080 resolution, HDMI, DVI, “high efficiency” backlights, VESA mount capability, [...]
Modern day geeks no longer need to use pocket-protectors as they are more likely to carry some sort of tiny mobile computing device than a front pocket full of pens. But interestingly, NEC has developed a concept called the P-ISM “pen-style personal networking gadget package,” which consists of five pens each with a unique function [...]
You’re a rough and tumble kinda guy, with a taste for danger and buttocks like two firm plums in a handkerchief, and you demand the same rugged go-anywhere, do-anything spirit from your Notebook. At the same time, you’ve a lovely style of cursive handwriting and you’d like to be able to show it off. What [...]
Bloody hell. This, friends and beloveds, is NEC’s latest attempt to take over your desk with oodles of lovely screen-space. And a huge desk you’d need to have, frankly, when we’re talking about 25.5-inches of widescreen joy. The 1920×1200, HD-capable monster has DVI-I and DVI-D HDCP inputs, an 800:1 contrast ratio and pumps out 400cd/m2 of [...]
NEC has developed a new 21.3-inch LCD panel that boasts a resolution of 2,800×2,100 (nearly six megapixels) that exceeds their previous record-holding NL256204AM15-01/01A model that has a resolution of 2,560×2,048. The LCD also uses NEC’s own TFT technology that enables a brightness of 1,000 cd/m2 and a contrast ratio of 1,000:1. Unfortunately, don’t be expecting [...]
NEC confirmed its sale of Packard Bell to Lap Shun Hui, the co-founder of PC Maker eMachines, which was acquired by Gateway in 2004. NEC will sell Packard Bell for roughly US$87 million. Packard Bell used to be one of the main players as PC Maker in the mid 90’s; its success was short-lived as it built [...]





