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National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has announced that the institute successfully developed the electron holography method stereoscopic technology which enables the ultimate viewing zone angle of 15 degrees and 4 cm diagonal display size color video display .  In this development, by applying its own display technology to increase viewing area to high-resolution device with  3300  mega-pixels, the newly developed device is able to gain three time wider viewing zone angles than  conventional devices and about two times broader two times broader video  holographic display. It seems that 3D video display technology development is accelerated to bring us to a virtually "real" world without glasses. Source: NICT's news release (Japanese) 9/28/10

Ultra-high speed video camera systems demonstrated by Keyence reportedly provides 24,000 frames per second, that can analyse extremely high speed movement. High-tech just keeps enhancing its capability. Source: DigInfo News via YouTube 6/15/09

Tribute to digital technologies, there seems to be no boundary between a photo shooting camera and video camera. A major camera supplier like Canon announced the dual functions camera while major consumer electronics devices manufactures, such as Sony and Panasonic that have video cameras as one of major product portfolio are starting to sell newly developed dual-mode camera. NOTE: This YouTube video will be replaced with an English version soon. Source: DigInfo via YouTube 4/7/09

There are a few good sites that well summarize a trend of Japanese science and technologies in English. This video site created by National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology ( AIST ) is one of the good ones. Its URL is http://www.aist.go.jp/aist_e/video/ . More sites would be expected to be provided by many other organizations maintaining at least this level of quality in English. 3/5/09

A range of player's age may be unlimited. Interesting in technologies used behind this game. Source: DigInfo News 2/26/09

Seeing is better than reading.  This is a new music video game supplied by Konami.  Source: DigInfo via YouTube 2/26/09

This seems to be a simple but great idea to integrate stereo microphones with earphones.   With this microphone-earphone, which Adphox supplies, you can pick up and record any sounds as you hear and wherever you are because the microphones are positions onto your ears.    Why don't you try a few demo sounds at the supplier's site ?  Wearing high quality headsets is recommendable for listening. Source: Adphox Corporation 12/6/08

Sanyo has announced a new display device, ALBO ,  that enables a user simply and  instantly to transmit photos, if required together with text message received by a cellphone terminal, from the user's cellphone to the 7-inch display panel itself via infrared communications ports.  With 256MB memory equipped and a built-in speaker, ALBO  can display photos in a slideshow format with a variety of effects and sounds.    Various types of memory card slots and USB port are available, too.    Its IEEE802.11b/g or AOSS  based wireless interface provides ALBO with another capability to link with a user's personal computer in the wireless LAN environment.    The new device, ALBO will be available in Japan on November 14, 2008 at a price level of Yen40,000.  Source: Sanyo 11/5/08

Playing music, it's dancing by itself! "Miuro" is the name. Seeing is Believing! Let's take a look at a YouTube video, I'm attaching here. It seems to me that this robot is one of typical examples of hi-tech-integration. This is cute, isn't it? I'd buy it if its price would be within my budget. 10/1/07