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Out of the Lab: No More Disappearing Balls in Baseball Night Games

Out of the Lab: No More Disappearing Balls in Baseball Night Games

When baseballs vanish in stadiums, blame the LED lights Sport stadiums everywhere are replacing high-intensity discharge (HID) floodlights with light-emitting diodes (LEDs). It’s the obvious way to go…

2018/07/25
Clean Water at a Lower Cost: Promoting Innovation in Wastewater Treatment

Clean Water at a Lower Cost: Promoting Innovation in Wastewater Treatment

Water, water everywhere—but not enough of it, and most of it going to waste. It covers about 70% of the planet’s surface, but only about 1% is usable to us as fresh water. That scant volume is the re…

2018/06/27
Find in the Blink of an Eye: Ultra-Fast Data-Matching Technology

Find in the Blink of an Eye: Ultra-Fast Data-Matching Technology

Security cameras are everywhere: building entrances, convenience stores, the streets of our towns and cities; always vigilant, always on the look-out for crime. No one can doubt that they play a signi…

2018/06/13
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ROV Investigates Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3

ROV Investigates Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3

Purpose-built ROV explores interior of Unit 3 primary containment vessel It may be a midget but this remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) is an intrepid explorer. Weighing in at 2 kilos, measuri…

2018/05/30
The Renaissance of Direct Current Power Transmission: Why Now and What Makes It Special?

The Renaissance of Direct Current Power Transmission: Why Now and What Makes It Special?

Your flashlight runs on electricity, and so does a lamp plugged into a power outlet—but did you know that they rely on different types of electric current? Direct current and alternating current, to b…

2018/05/16
As Data Volumes Explode, Toshiba and Helium Help the Cloud Float to New Capacity Highs

As Data Volumes Explode, Toshiba and Helium Help the Cloud Float to New Capacity Highs

Storing digisnaps of places visited and meals eaten, archiving documents, sharing conference materials with colleagues; these days it’s becoming second nature to store all sorts of data in the cloud, …

2018/04/25
Over 50 years with AI : Toshiba’s future eyes

Over 50 years with AI : Toshiba’s future eyes

More than a manufacturer, an AI pioneer The 1960s saw the first manned space flight was launched. In the same decade, Toshiba invented the world’s first letter sorting machine in 1967. With the abilit…

2018/04/02
What’s Next for a Japanese Rugby World Newly Armed with ICT?

What’s Next for a Japanese Rugby World Newly Armed with ICT?

Science and sport have long been allies—but achieving a really strong partnership is more difficult in some sports than others. That’s certainly true of rugby, where the number of players and the spee…

2018/04/02
Arm in Arm: Toshiba’s New Robot and Coexistence with People

Arm in Arm: Toshiba’s New Robot and Coexistence with People

We increasingly take robots for granted. Robots on production lines are an old story, and for shoppers in Japan their synthesized greetings are no longer a novelty. Robots are here, all around us, and…

2018/04/02