Well, here's some new line of recycled PCs from NEC which feature enhanced security options. I feel so secure.

I'm a bit sidetracked watching the voting results come out, but here's two new phones intended for the Chinese market from NEC. The first is the "N940" which is the country's first phone capable of receiving TV broadcasts, and the "N840" with a 2MP camera.

NEC will be showing this notebook PC at this year's WPC EXPO, which operates off of a fuel cell. It gets a somewhat acceptable 10 hour battery life, though I doubt consumers will be expected to accept the technology until it's better than lithium ion.

We've seen LCD monitors with billion-color capabilities before, but NEC's new TFT display module is strikingly different:

-It can display 1.7347 billion colors simultaneously (previous models could display o­nly 16 million colors)
-It can choose those colors from a total of 685 billion

While we're o­n the topic of HD DVD, it appears NEC Electronics has announced the world's first LSI for recording and reading HD DVDs. You can also record to existing CDs and DVDs, but o­nce HD DVD products start hitting the market (2006 and 2007), I don't think you'll be doing that anymore anyway.

Is it me, or is 3D display technology actually taking off?

The N610 and N620 are GSM phones specifically developed for the Chinese market by NEC.
With the addition of the touchscreen, NEC has dropped the typical 10-key layout, and added handwriting recognition for Chinese characters.
English handwriting recognition blows enough as it is, and there's o­nly 26 letters. I can't imagine what Chinese recognition would be like - I think the average Chinese person knows like 4,000 characters.

English press release ahoy, mateys.
It was less than a year ago I was translating my first ever article for TechJapan, about an 8x DVD+R drive from Plextor.
However, this is o­nly an LSI. Can we expect DVD writing speed to double yearly?

We previously reported o­n this LCD's module. NEC-Mitsubishi hasn't released a product image yet either, it seems.
The screens can create up to o­ne billion colors.

I guess if I used Photoshop I'd understand the value of a screen supporting this "Adobe RGB."
This is just a module, mind you - not an actual screen. But the screen is the easy part.
The module supports 1600 x 1200 (UXGA).