It must be national LSI week in Japan, because Hitachi announced their new hardware today. It's an LSI for hard drives, that has the world's fastest internal transfer speed - 2.5Gb/sec. I'm not sure if I should be excited about this or not, because it's an "internal" transfer speed. Does this mean a drive using this LSI could write data that quickly? I guess not, because the rest of the architecture would need to support it, such as the platters, write heads, interface, etc.. I really don't know enough about the inner workings of a HD to make a judgement about this, but the prospect of having a 2.5Gb/sec HD is still pretty rad. Can anyone offer more insight?

It's not really holographic, but it still looks pretty cool. What the system consists of is a projector at the bottom of a tube, which projects a special (as in, the object needs to be photographed from 24 different angles special) image to the top of the tube, where a mirror sits. This mirror then bounces the image to 24 other mirrors, that then bounce the image again to a rotating mirror in the middle.
What ends up happening is a simulated 3D image, viewable from any angle.

Don't ask me how they managed to name the computer "Prius" without taking any flak from Toyota. There are two models, actually - the "Prius Deck" and "Prius Air."
More information and pictures inside.

It's more or less just a faster version of their same drive released earlier last year. DVD+R and DVD-R burn at 8x, which is nice.

Hitachi Manufacturing will release a digital surveillance recorder [DS-F221] capabale of connecting 9 cameras
and has a 320 GB hard drive, along with the drive unit for the cameras [VK-AC950] on Jan 20th.

Using 4ccs of a menathol based solution, personal computing devices could be powered for around 6 to 8 hours.

Hitachi Cable is exhibiting the wireless network capable IP phone, the "Wireless IP Phone IPC5000" at this year's "Wireless Japan 2003" event. Conforming to the 802.11b standard, the phone allows one to talk at places featuring this type of wireless network.