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NEC Hybrid Fingerprint Scanner is Hard to Trick, Unless You Have a Twin With the Same Fingerprints and Veins
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There are all sorts of uses for fingerprint scanners in the tech world. You can use them to log into notebooks and smartphones without having to type a password. You can also use a fingerprint scanner to log into corporate networks. The problem is that some fingerprint scanners are not… |
February 25th, 2011
Nec Batteryless Remote Control: We Don’T Need No Stinkin’ Batteries
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How many times have you had to get your lazy ass off of the couch to get up and change the channel because the batteries in your remote died. Well thanks to some fine high-tech minds, someday you may never need to worry about changing the batteries in your remote… |
November 17th, 2009
Video Console Cakes Offer a Little Something Old, a Little Something New…
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While these lumpy cakes certainly aren’t the most precise video game inspired baked goods I’ve featured here on Technabob, this is definitely the first time I’ve seen so many console cakes congregated in the same place. There are cakey versions of the Gamecube, an NES, an Atari 2600, a TurboGrafx-16,… |
April 25th, 2009
Robot Sommelier Makes the Guinness Book
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Remember the wine-tasting robot that mistook people for bacon? Well I guess they’ve worked out some of the kinks, since the pint-sized automaton with a taste for the finer things is back — this time in the Guinness World Records…. NEC’s Tasting Robot has achieved the unique distinction of |
December 15th, 2007
30 Years of Video Game History on Auction Block
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If you’ve ever wanted to build up a collection of video game nostalgia, but don’t have the patience to dig through garage sales and flea markets to put it all together, check out this insane auction. A dedicated video game fanatic going by the name of sengoku has decided to… |
November 4th, 2007
Nec Working on Laptop Lcds That Work in Bright Sun
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NEC has developed a technology which could be used to provide laptops and media players with displays that can be read clearly, even in bright sunlight. The company’s “super-transmissive natural light TFT” (ST-NLT) displays are designed for use in environments where there is an abundance of bright light. Initially designed… |
March 8th, 2007
Tough Nec Laptop Pc is Waterproof
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Spilled one too many Red Bulls on your laptop in that marathon coding session last night? NEC seeks to solve that problem with their upcoming waterproof laptop computer. In addition to being waterproof and dustproof, the NEC Shield Pro ??????? portable can withstand sub-zero temperatures and survive a drop from… |
December 7th, 2006
