Nikon's production facilities in the Japanese city of Sendai have been severely affected by the latest tsunami, which affected Sendai quite a lot, according to sources familiar with the matter. Nikon's flagship manufacturing facility is based in the city, a factory that makes high-end cameras like the D3x and the D700. You can see an ...
Sigma Japan has come forth tody to let us know that their DP1x compact digital camera will be available in the land of the rising sun later this month. What's great about this camera is the fact that it features a True II processor which apparacitly utilized an enchaneced algrotihm for more accurate photography. Unfortunately there was ...
A new kind of touch interface is being researched on by the Kawasaki and Mouri Lab over in Japan. The new interface combines 3D displays which could eventually offer a new way to simulate the touching of objects. Further combined with the HIRO III, a haptic robot which provides realistic kinesthetic sensations to a user’s hands ...
Recently, Olympus won an award at the National Inventions Awards 2010 show in Japan for its special, anti-dust filter known as the SuperSonic Wave Filter (SSWF). This filter is actually built into all of the interchangeable-lens digital cameras for Olympus' product line. This includes their Micro Four Thirds models and DSLRs as well. But ...
The Canoscan 9000F was initially unveiled last month and now the same high end scanner is available in Japan. In case you forgot, the Canoscan 9000F delivers a maximum resolution of 9600 dpi and a color depth of 48 bits. This high end scanner can also scan 35mm slides or 12 35mm filmstrips simultaneously. Another ...
A new Millimeter Wave TV camera has been shown off by NHK of Japan, a device that makes use of radar which enables it to capture images through reflected waves using high-speed beam scanning to produce 2D images. If you want a simpler way of putting it, this new NHK camera can see objects through ...
While we are all caught up in the 3D daze, it seems that the 2022 World Cup will have something new to offer if this proposal does indeed become a reality. Japan is said to be offering a new kind of broadcast coverage of the 2022 World Cup, making use of holographs to render matches ...
The Mimamori 3G Camera is a remote controlled camera system that allows you to monitor your pets from afar using your mobile phone. It features a 300K pixel sensor that takes videos and photos which are then transmitted as a video call or stored on a MicroSD card slot for viewing later on. Other features ...
DoCoMo of Japan has announced a new projector for their mobile phones called the F01. The F01 is compatible with Fujitsu’s Separate Keitai, a mobile phone that breaks into two parts. The projector weighs only 88 grams and produces images that measure between 5 to 66 inches in size. It delivers an 854x480 WGA resolution, ...
The Hanwha UMAZONe K3 in-car video recorder was meant to help driving disputes, a device which you can place on your windshield. This in-car video recorder can capture videos of up to 2 hours in VGA (640x480) resolution at 20 fps. It can record up to 2 hours of video via the included 2GB microSD ...
