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In yet another new solid-state product announcement for 2007, Panasonic introduces the SDR-S10 - a "New Concept Digital Camcorder" claimed to be the world's smallest.
Up until now, the growth of the digital camcorder market has been driven largely by such conventional uses as recording weddings, birthday parties and family holidays. However, Panasonic has announced a new digital camcorder, the SDR-S10, that lends itself to a new generation of applications that are more in tune with the needs of younger users keen to shoot, edit and upload...
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Japan's Matsushita company unveiled a robotic suit, eyed to be marketed in two years, that will help people who are partially paralyzed rehabilitate the rest of their bodies.
When a person who suffered a stroke moves his or her active arm while wearing the suit, the paralyzed other arm will make the same motion by stretching and bending compressors that act as muscles.
By repeating the arm movements, the person wearing the robotic suit can train to regain use of his or her limbs, the designer said.
The robotic suit, which slips over a...
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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Wednesday it will launch the world's first Blu-ray DVD recorders in Japan on Nov. 15, rising to do battle with High-Definition DVD, a rival format.
Both are vying to become the standard for next-generation DVDs, touting higher-quality graphics that stand out especially on larger TVs.
The DMR-BW 200 will retail for about 300,000 yen and the DMR-BR 100 for roughly 240,000 yen, the company said.
"We're proud of our products and we hope to end the battle soon, with the Blu-ray becoming the...
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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Tuesday it has begun recalling 6,000 lithium-ion batteries used in Panasonic-brand notebook computers in Japan on concerns they might overheat.
The recall of the batteries for Let's Note CF-W4G notebook PCs only affects Japan, said company spokesman Akira Kadota.
Kadota said the batteries were not made by Sony Corp., whose faulty batteries were involved in far larger recalls by Dell Inc. and Apple Computer Inc. last month, but he declined to say who made the batteries, citing an agreement with the...
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