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Hello Kitty Alarm Clock

cosa — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:53:36 +0000

If you can’t leave home without your Hello Kitty plushes doll, you have to give your big thanks to Seiko. Eventhough this isn’t a doll, but a Hello Kitty Alarm Clock definitely won’t hurt your feeling for the big-head cat. It’s quite handy too, as it can show the current time (it’s a clock afterall), alarm you whenever you have to wake up, and indicate the current temperature. If not enough, the cute device comes with a mirror as well.

Weighs 125 grams, Hello Kitty Alarm Clock is powered by 2 AAA batteries and has three different Hello kitty chimes to wake you up in style. If interested, it is available for pre-order for about €39.

Seiko muPass Alarm Clock Wakes You Up With Different Tunes Everyday

cosa — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:00:18 +0000

Seiko presents a cool alarm clock named muPass. It’s cool because it can play polyphonic ringtones through its built-in speakers to wake you up. You can even store up to 4000 different tunes inside and lets it play different one every morning. To transfer the music, it uses the no-longer-popular infrared connectivity.

Available only in Japan, Seiko will offer muPass Alarm Clock starting from the middle of February for 8925 Yen or around $75.

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Personalized Your SEIKO E-Dictionary With Skin

cosa — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 01:51:21 +0000

LiveWord, SEIKO electronic dictionaries Korean retailed, recently presented LiveWord Slim Skin, a changeable skin that allows you to personalize your SEIKO dictionaries. It made of special coated material that won’t scratch your dictionary and will fit any kind of SEIKO’s. Currently, there are 8 different designs available, each for 4,800 KRW.

More pics after the jump.

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Seiko Bluetooth Watch That Connect To Your Cell Phone

cosa — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 00:34:09 +0000

Seiko Japan is currently developing a unique watch that is able to connect to your cell phone via Bluetooth. Still a prototype though, but it is already able to display phone’s network’s signal strength, battery life, and new message indicator. Furthermore, with a special software from Seiko installed on the phone, the watch can also display the message’s subject, along with the name of the sender. Hold on, there’s more. Upon receiving a call or SMS, the watch will act like a cell phone by playing a melody (polyphonic ringtone?) and even vibrate. And since it won’t be nice to hear both your phone and the watch ringtone, the watch is equipped with the capability to silent your phone’s ringtone. Wow.

According to the company, this Bluetooth Watch is planned to relase to public by 2007. I hope at that time the watch is also equipped with an integrated microphone and speaker, so we can use it like a real phone. That’d be cool I think.

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Seiko Launched The First Watch With Flexible e-Paper

cosa — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 03:03:14 +0000

Seiko, a Japanese watch manufacturer, has launched their new watch, the Spectrum SVRD001 model, that uses flexible e-Paper or Electrophoretic Display (EPD). Become the first watch that implements this technology, SVRD001 is available in January 2006 as a limited edition (only 500 units worldwide) for 1900 EUR.

The watch has a bracelet design and the body is made of stainless steel and a black and white e-paper. It’s 134g weighs and 37mm thick.

Electronic paper, or e-paper, is a technology that allows the text on a piece of paper to be re-written. The “paper” is actually made of organic electronics that use conductive plastic which contains tiny balls that respond to an electric charge, changing the page in much the same way that pixels change on a computer monitor. [ source ]

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Seiko Epson Releases Flexible SRAM Memory Module

cosa — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 08:00:53 +0000

Seiko Epson recently released their prototype of flexible 16KB TFT-SRAM memory module which is a major breaktrhough in flexible memory technology. In their statement, Seiko Epson said that they have “succeeded in transferring SRAM circuits initially formed on low-temperature polycrystalline Si TFT glass substrates onto plastic substrates using its proprietary SUFTLA technology.”

This SUFTLA (Surface Free Technology by Laser Ablation /Annealing) technology lets Seiko Epson to create other flexible mediums using low temperatures. They use it to integrate all the circuit blocks that make up the memory into a single chip on a plastic substrate. The result is a TFT-SRAM that operates stably at high speed, and at low voltage.

On a side note, Seiko Epson has confirmed a successful demo of the flexible SRAM using an original 8 bit processor.

Flexible TFT-SRAM memory module features:

Real TFT-SRAM, with one cell consisting of six transistors
Short access time is realized by integrating a sense amplifier onto a flexible substrate
TFT-SRAM can be used as the working memory for ACT11, Epson’s original asynchronous 8-bit microprocessor

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