Jan 07
Panasonic thinks that you want to personalize your TV with a home screen populated with widgets. They also think that you want to draw on the TV using a gigantic pen. Seriously. More »
Jan 07
Smart TV Alliance (founded by LG, TP Vision and Toshiba) announced today that six new industry-leading manufacturers and solution providers joined the Alliance to stimulate cross-platform Smart TV applications and services. Consumers will enjoy a richer Smart TV experience with 3D video, the highest quality video and audio, and the greatest variety of content with applications created from a new software development kit (SDK) for 2013 TVs from global manufacturers.
New Smart TV Alliance members …
Jan 06
Smart TV Alliance adds Panasonic and IBM to its fold, lays bare new SDK features
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Looks like LG and Toshiba aren’t the only TV manufacturers dreaming of a platform-independent future for Smart TVs — Panasonic has joined the Smart TV Alliance too. Founded to help build a non-proprietary ecosystem for Smart TV apps, the Alliance’s ranks have grown to include Panasonic IBM Specific Media, ABOX42 and TechniSat. Smart TV Alliance president Richard Choi is optimistic that the new members will help it mend a fragmented market, giving developers a chance to focus on building apps, rather than navigate compliance processes. A CES developers conference hopes to get them started, too — introducing the latest SDK’s upcoming features, including updated HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript specifications, as well as support for new video codecs and 3D video. Technical presentations will be available this Wednesday for folks in Sin City. Everyone else? Check out the Alliance’s official press release after the break.
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Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
Jan 03
Panasonic’s Any Battery Light isn’t picky about battery size, takes anything in your junk drawer
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Battery nerds rejoice: Panasonic has cobbled together an electronic torch that will play nice with almost anything in your collection. The Any Battery Light can siphon power from AA, AAA, D and C-sized batteries, lighting the dark with just a single serving of any compatible size. Loading it up with all four provides up to 86 hours of continuous LED illumination. Not all batteries are equal, of course — a single AAA isn’t going to shine as brightly as its thicker cousins, and users will need to manually flip a switch to choose what size battery the torch draws its light from. Japanese consumers will be able to pick one up for about ¥2,000 ( $23) in red or white later this month.
Filed under: Misc
Source: Panasonic
Jan 02
Panasonic has developed a revolutionary hot water pipe that can actually turn the heat into usable electricity, as long as there’s also a source of cold water. The conversion process relies on the temperature difference between the hot and cold water, and since the entire pipe is used to harness heat, the power output is three or four times higher than previous efforts. More »
Jan 02
When your power goes out, one of the last things you want to be doing is fumbling around your home looking for a flashlight. Then, once you find one, having to fish around your drawer full of crap to find batteries that can be used for it, most likely somewhere in the AA or AAA variety. If you don’t have the right battery, you’ll be sitting in the dark, unless you have a new emergency flashlight from Panasonic that can use any battery you throw at it.
Panasonic’s Emergency Flashlight can use a combination of AAA, AA, C or D-sized batteries to help you through emergencies or to supply light for an impromptu backyard session of beer pong.
To keep the flashlight’s cost low, Panasonic isn’t making it possible to use all of the batteries at the same time, instead allowing you to use the flashlight to house multiple batteries and choosing which ones you’d like to use. Even though we’d like to see the flashlight use every battery possible all at once, Panasonic is promising 86 hours of use when all battery slots are filled.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: LockStar Announces GPS-Enabled Watches To Help Track Family Members, Samsung Reveals Robotic Vacuum Cleaner With Longer Reach,
Jan 02
After the disastrous earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last year, local companies have been working hard to create products that will be useful in an emergency. Including big corporations like Panasonic, which has created a brilliant LED flashlight that will run on almost any battery you’ve got on hand. More »
Dec 26
The folks at Panasonic have been tipped to be smartphone-bound for years; today they’ve basically confirmed the idea that they’re making a big effort in 2013 with the P-02E. The FCC listing appearing today has everything the Panasonic ELUGA had and a whole lot more, upping the ante from what was tipped this Autumn without a full confirmation from an official source – the FCC is just about as good as it gets!
What we saw from Panasonic before was the ELUGA (also seen above), a device we tossed in a dish of water at Mobile World Congress 2012. That machine was fairly neat at the time, but looks positively lacking compared to what the P-02E is being tipped as bringing to the smartphone game. Unfortunate for everyone outside of Japan is the rumor that this machine will only be hitting that small land mass, but we can dream!
What we’re seeing here is the Panasonic P-02E, complete with a massive 1080 x 1920 pixel display which we must assume will be spread across an approximately 5-inch display diagonally. This machine will be running Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean and will working with 4G LTE, NFC, and mobile TV. This is another indicator that it’ll only be appearing in Japan: in its current showing, it’s got a real retractable antenna.
The FCC approval generally lends itself to a USA or Euro release, but in this case given the Panasonic market share and their ability to push devices abroad in the smartphone segment, we’re almost certainly looking to see a home-terf release. We’ll quite likely be seeing this device appear at Mobile World Congress 2013 – seeya there! Hit up our MWC 2013 tag to check out all the action from here until February!
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Dec 26
Earlier this month, a supposed Panasonic P02-E smartphone popped up on an NTT DoCoMo Japanese server log, but such scant evidence required more than a few grains of salt to swallow it. Now, the ever-reliable FCC has revealed the device to be an actual thing, and putting the two sources together would make it a 5-inch, 1,920 x 1080, Android 4.1.2 smartphone with a quad-core, 1.5GHz APQ8064 Snapdragon S4 Pro CPU, along with LTE and NFC capability. Don’t get too excited if those specs float your boat, however — judging by the retractable TV antenna, NTT DoCoMo origins and general Panasonic elusiveness in the west, it looks to be aimed squarely at the Japanese market only.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile
Via: Phone Arena
Source: FCC
Dec 26
The other day we reported that a certain Panasonic P-02E was spotted in server logs, leading to speculation that this could be a 5” phablet of Panasonic’s own making. Well thanks to an FCC sighting, we now know that the device is indeed for real along with some of its confirmed specs. For starters the P-02E will feature a 5” 1080p Full HD display, a 1.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor under the hood, Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean, wireless charging support, a microSD card slot for memory expansion, along with LTE and NFC support. Unfortunately it seems that even though the device was spotted at the FCC, chances are the Panasonic P-02E will be limited to the Japanese market.
Despite Panasonic expressing their interest in expanding beyond Japan and into Europe, those plans were soon cancelled and the Japanese company announced that come March 2013, they would be halting all sales of their smartphones in Europe. We guess while the Eluga did feature some decent specs, it wasn’t enough to make consumers go for it versus the competition, but what do you think about the P-02E? Is that a phone you could see yourself buying?
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Google Names Its Best Android Apps For 2012, Google Offers Free Calls Within US And Canada Through 2013,
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