Mitsubishi lays claim to the "World's Largest Gold Bullion," with a single bar that weighs 250 kilograms. Gold currently sells at roughly $438 per ounce. This bar is worth $3,862,498.83. That'd be a nice chunk of metal to have sitting around.

No drive yet, but here's the laser that will likely power the next generation of DVD burners. It supports burning DVD±R DL discs at 16x; you could burn 8.5GB of data in mere minutes. Whether or not buying dual-layered discs is actually cost effective...that's a different story.

To go with the "Kirigamine" series of air conditioners, Mitsubishi will now release the "Mimamori Server," an "IT controller" that allows their air conditioners to be network accessible.

Wait, what? Japan homes, free of central heating and air, are often equipped with space heaters and A/Cs for individual rooms. As such, there's typically o­nly o­ne or two A/Cs per family -- such as in the family room. I don't know how the majority of Japan works, but when I lived over there, we would o­nly turn it o­n during special occassions, such as when guests came by. Leave it to high electricity costs.

Anyway, keeping with this "A/C per room" concept, would it not make sense to integrate some sort of security system with the unit? They are, after all, strategically placed towards the ceiling -- a prime position for a camera.

So that's what the Mimamori Server is. An "A/C network adapter with a camera." Read more.

Current RFID technology has a maximum range of about 3 meters, but with Mitsubishi's new technology, that jumps up to 7 meters.
For us Americans, that's going from a 10 foot maximum to a 23 foot maximum.

This seems a bit odd considering we just posted about a 5MP camera phone from Samsung, but here it is anyway.

This Mitsubishi camera module has a 4MP CCD.

I can't say this comes as a huge suprise to me, but I guess it sucks for Mitsubishi.

Of course the company has, oh, 200000 other divisions, so it's not as though they're going under or anything.

Now that Sony, NEC, and other manufacturers are unveiling their dual layered drives, isn't it about time we get some dual layered media? Mitsubishi Chemical Media is the first out of the gate. For now, the discs' ERP is 1,500 yen - about $13 USD. Ouch.

The two main technologies shown were a "reversible LCD" screen and internet antennas for planes.

They seem to have skipped 12x. Oh well.