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A Story of One Scientist – Discovery Leading to Lithium-ion Batteries –

A Story of One Scientist – Discovery Leading to Lithium-ion Batteries –

Smartphones, laptops, electric cars, all products essential for contemporary life, and all powered by batteries. Lithium-ion batteries to be precise. Compact and light, yet capable of supplying a powe…

2018/12/19
Driving a See-Through Car? Technology Assists Safer Driving

Driving a See-Through Car? Technology Assists Safer Driving

If you have ever driven, you will almost certainly have been gripped at one time or another by a sudden feeling of apprehension as another vehicle—a car, a motorcycle or even a bicycle—suddenly looms …

2018/11/28
AI Contributes to Cutting Car Accidents: Toshiba’s Image Recognition LSI

AI Contributes to Cutting Car Accidents: Toshiba’s Image Recognition LSI

An image recognition LSI indispensable for cars that don’t crash Figures from WHO* show that almost 1.25 million people die in car accidents every year. As more cars come onto the world’s roads, it’s …

2018/11/14
Non-Destructive Inspection Gets the Inside Story

Non-Destructive Inspection Gets the Inside Story

Hideyuki Tomisawa knows that a picture is worth at least a thousand words. He picks up a nautilus shell, almost as large as his hand, a curve of creamy white and light brown lines, and places it insid…

2018/10/24
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Ozonation in Drinking Water Treatment

Ozonation in Drinking Water Treatment

Food and water are our most fundamental needs, and as the global population grows from 7 to 8-billion, and more and more people flock to cities, ensuring a reliable supply of good and safe quality wat…

2018/09/12
AI Tackles Video Analytics of Rugby Games

AI Tackles Video Analytics of Rugby Games

When Toshiba’s rugby team, the Brave Lupus aren’t busy taking on other teams, they are tackling a new project—one that involves high-level ICT technology. The goal is to combine audio-visual recogniti…

2018/08/22
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