Finger Controls In Car

Hitachi has developed a steering wheel with a tiny device that reads the driver’s finger veins. This lets the driver use his/her fingers as switches for the engine, car stereo, and navigation system.

"If I place my index finger on this reader, it recognises it’s me. If I put the finger again, it starts the engine," [...]

W53H GPS/Phone

Hitachi is aiming to replace your GPS with a cell phone / GPS combo. The newly announced W53H (AKA Wooo) will come in 3 colors: Japan Black, Nordic White, and Euro Purple. With its 2.8″ OLED TV like screen, you’ll see where you are going, even if you have no clue where you are.
It accepts [...]

4TB Drive by 2011

Hitachi is making the bold claim that they will provide 4TB desktop (3.5-inch) and 1TB laptop (2.5-inch) drives within the next 4 years. The new recording heads are more than 2x smaller than existing gear or about 2,000 times smaller than a human hair.

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Blu-ray Disc Camcorder

Hitachi is showing off its upcoming world’s first Blu-ray Disc camcorder. planned for an August 30 launch in Japan.
The two 5.3 megapixel CMOS models, the DZ-BD70 and DZ-BD7H hybrid which packs both an 8-cm BD writer and 30GB disk…

… have a system which captures, records and stores 1920×1080 full high-definition video throughout the whole process [...]