Tag Archives : Hitachi

Although today is the Seagate or WD who owns the largest share of the market, Hitachi is preparing for a big leap in terms of storage, much higher than exists today: hard drives up to 24 TB. Hitachi along with researchers from the Industrial Technology Development Organization and New Energy in Japan (NEDO) and the University of Tokyo, is developing [...]

One of the foremost names in the field of computer peripherals, Canon, has now come with an intriguing security feature, that would prevent any unauthorized use of photocopying feature of its state of line imageRUNNER ADVACNE series of multi-functional peripheral devices. The all new fingerprint authentication for Canon, has been designed and developed [...]

Hitachi has come up with the innovative “finger vein authentication” called VeinID which is a biometric system which uses finger pulse recognition to find out who you are. They have applied this technology to the vending machine! Showcased at the RetailTech 2010, the Coca-Cola vending machine using this unique identification technology caught everyone’s [...]

Beware. Home TV viewing conflicts just got a new boost. Hitachi is working with Canesta and GestureTek to create a series of television sets that can recognize a viewer’s hand gestures. It sounds far-fetched, but through these, you can leave the remote aside and wave your hand the right way to change channels or volume. The development is more or [...]

SimpleTech, the data storage brand of Hitachi has come up with the [re]Drive. It is a 500GB external hard drive, which is packaged in recyclable aluminum, and “renewable, naturally grown bamboo.” Looks like SimpleTech is becoming eco0friendly and is following the example of tree-hugging techie market. One very good advantage of this [re]Drive [...]