IPS Alpha Technology is a new company being formed by Hitachi, Matsushita (Panasonic), Toshiba, and Hitachi Displays for - you guessed it - the manufacture and sale of LCDs.

I'm thinking this will be direct competition to S-LCD, a similar venture announced by Samsung and Sony over the summer.

Hitachi has some new "Wooo" series hybrid recorders, and they can also record HD content to the hard drive. Or as we say in hip-hop, "HD* to the HD." Other than that, well, they're hybrid recorders.

*Note: In Japan, "High Definition" content is referred to as "Hi-Vision" content, so I am in fact full of crap anyway.

Hitachi have added the "Prius K" series to their notebook computer model line-up. The "Prius Air Note K" and "Prius Note K" feature upgraded optical and hard drives while the "PriusGear K" is a low-spec alternative to the previously released "PriusGear GN75KT" available in white.

Hitachi will display fuel cells it is currently developing for mobile devices at CEATEC JAPAN 2004, which begins 5 October 2004. Fuel cells for mobile phones, PDAs and notebook computers will be displayed.

I'm not kidding about that product name - but this fridge offers a couple interesting options, including the ability to connect to a network for confirming a couple statistics. What?

It must be International Day of Joint Development Announcements or something, because KDDI, Hitachi, and Toshiba announced that they would be jointly developing fuel cells aimed for use in cellular phones.

Hitachi LG Data Storage has announced 12x DVD recorders that support DVD+R DL (OEM only, to be released in June). Buffalo will be offering the retail versions soon.

There really isn't much innovation here, I just felt like writing about it because it's pretty rare that Hitachi release a digital camera.
And hey, this o­ne doesn't look so bad. Pretty cheap too.

Remember that 400GB hard drive from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies? The o­ne that supports Serial ATA?
Well, guess what. According to Akiba PC Hotline, the T-ZONE. PC DIY SHOP in Akihabara, Tokyo will have a few of these drives in stock o­n the 24th. The price is 52,290 yen.

I suppose this means that you can take the HD out of the computer and throw it o­n the ground as hard as you can, and it would be alright.
But I still wouldn't recommend it.