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Facial recognition system searches 36 million faces per second

Monday, March 26, 2012 - 11:24am

In TV shows, detectives search a database of faces at lightning speed to make a match to a photo or video footage — something that a new high performance camera and software system has made reality. It can capture a face and then search up to 36 million faces in one second to find a match in selected databases.

This Blu-ray drive with built-in memory is a really good idea

Kevin Hall

Friday, June 4, 2010 - 4:58am

What do you expect a Blu-ray player to do normally? Well, play Blu-ray discs, I imagine. Hitachi wants them doing more, and decided to integrate a 32GB solid state drive into the package. Yep, flash memory is so small now that we can turn optical drives into storage drives.

Will Hitachi's new hard drives make every laptop ultra-thin?

Tuesday, June 1, 2010 - 7:02am

With gadgets and laptops getting smaller and thinner by the day, manufacturers need hard drives that are moving in the same direction. And Hitachi's newest 7mm HDDs do just that, shrinking down the size while ratcheting up the speed to 7200rpm.

40.26 mph elevator is world's fastest

Friday, January 29, 2010 - 10:34am

Buildings are getting higher, and nobody wants to stand around waiting for an elevator. Hitachi aims to fix that with its latest elevator, a 40.26 mph rocket that's the fastest in the world. It's installing the new 1,080 m/min lift...

Hitachi rolls out redesigned 2TB SimpleDrives

Monday, November 16, 2009 - 12:19pm

Hitachi leverages its groundbreaking 7200RPM 2TB internal drives with this spiffy enclosure, blasting out its 2TB family of SimpleDrive external hard disks. Drop $250 on this USB 2.0 drive, and you have yourself enough room for 500,000 MP3s. Not only...

Hitachi ships world's first 2TB drive to spin at 7200 RPM

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 5:01pm

You can't be too rich, too thin or have too much disk space, so this 2TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 internal hard disk is appealing enough. But this 3.5-inch drive spins at 7200RPM, the world's first of its capacity to do...

Want to buy a drink? Just scan the veins of your finger

Kevin Hall

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 4:21am

Coca-Cola's "Freestyle" suicide-making machine is so last week. Hitachi's come up with its own little gimmick that's even crazier: paying for a drink with your biometrics. We've seen Hitachi's finger vein authentication system before in cars. Now, machines installed in...

Hitachi rolls out tough USB drive that can survive a 9-foot drop

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 9:33am

Hitachi learned a thing or two when it bought drive manufacturer Fabrik, maker of SimpleTech and G-Technology drives. Just look at this spiffy SimpleTOUGH drive, available in 500GB, 320GB and 250GB capacities for $150, $120, and $100 respectively. No, that's...

Scoot over, Google: Hitachi GazoPa sorts by color and shape

Kevin Hall

Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 5:23am

Hitachi (best known for manufacturing computer parts and electronic products — not, uh, web software) unveiled a new search engine called GazoPa, which finds images based on the shapes and colors they present, rather than tags and text related...

Fridge Fu: Japanese fridge sprays food with vitamin C to keep it fresh

Kevin Hall

Monday, September 1, 2008 - 6:14am

We've seen (what previously we thought were) some amazing refrigerators around here — even high tech magnets — but this new chill box by Hitachi still has us raising an eyebrow. It sprays your goods with vitamin C, which...

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Facial recognition system searches 36 million faces per second

This Blu-ray drive with built-in memory is a really good idea

Will Hitachi's new hard drives make every laptop ultra-thin?

40.26 mph elevator is world's fastest

Hitachi rolls out redesigned 2TB SimpleDrives

Hitachi ships world's first 2TB drive to spin at 7200 RPM

Want to buy a drink? Just scan the veins of your finger

Hitachi rolls out tough USB drive that can survive a 9-foot drop

Scoot over, Google: Hitachi GazoPa sorts by color and shape

Fridge Fu: Japanese fridge sprays food with vitamin C to keep it fresh

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