“Mother Ganges”: Reviving India’s Lifeline Through Technology

River Ganges: The lifeline of India If early settlements and modern civilizations have anything in common, it’s their proximity to water. From Mesopotamia that flourished around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, to Egypt that thrived along the banks of the river Nile, rivers have always been the lifeline of all civilizations. In India, it is the river Ganges that has…

Passing the Superconductivity Baton: Turning Adversity into Opportunity

Superconductivity sounds like a superpower, but it’s not—at least not in the traditional sense. It refers to the property of zero electrical resistance in some metals at very low absolute temperatures, allowing high amounts of electric current to pass through the material. Metal that has become superconductive also emits a magnetic field, meaning it can be a very powerful magnet…

Zero Electrical Resistance: Turning Dreams into Reality

In 2013, the Higgs boson came into our collective consciousness—even the least scientific-minded of us—when it won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Though its existence had been theorized since 1964, it wasn’t until 2012 that it was actually discovered. What you may not know, is that this discovery was aided in part by Toshiba superconductivity technologies. Superconductivity is the phenomena…

Semiconductors: What Are the New Possibilities of Discrete Components in the IoT Age?

Look around. How many electronic devices do you see? The ubiquity of electronic devices means we are surrounded by semiconductors all the time. But, wait—what exactly are semiconductors? What do they do? Many people have heard the word, but few could explain what they actually are. Toshiba provides three types of discrete semiconductors – power devices, small signal devices, and…

Entering the New Digital Arena: How Chief Digital Officer Taro Shimada envisions Toshiba’s Transformation

For many of us, cell phones were the latest trend when we were growing up. But they were limited in capabilities. The Googles, Facebooks, and Amazons of the world were still big ideas in the minds of young entrepreneurs. Fast forward not that many years later, and everyone has a smartphone—we shop, we chat, we play and we learn online.…

Harnessing the Strengths of a Semiconductor Technology to Power a Hydrogen Economy

The idea of a hydrogen-powered future might seem like something straight out of science fiction, but believe it or not, the technology for hydrogen energy is real. Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry estimates that hydrogen energy will expand into an 8 trillion yen market in Japan by 2050.* In fact, in Japan, hydrogen is seen not only as…