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NEC’s passenger drone takes to the skies in somewhat cautious test flight

More and more firms are developing battery-powered vertical take-off and landing aircraft, with the latest effort shown off this week by tech firm NEC. The successful test flight saw the machine stay airborne for about 40 seconds.

Olympic organizers may use facial recognition to manage guests

Japan is looking for a different way to confirm the identity of the hundreds of thousands of athletes, officials and

NEC’s new 34-inch curved display offers high resolution and solid color

The MultiSync EX341R is a new 34-inch ultrawide SVA display aimed at the commercial market that features a curved panel and ultra-narrow 1.55mm bezels on three sides. The display's curvature is one of the "tightest on the market."The post NEC's new 34-inch curved display offers high resolution and solid color appeared first on Digital Trends.

Your old PC’s DVD drive might earn you $10

The PC you had a decade ago might be a clunker in comparison to what you have now, but it

Nissan may stop making its own electric car batteries

Nissan has long made its own electric car batteries thanks to Automotive Energy Supply, its team-up with NEC, but it

NEC can verify your identity using sound-capturing earbuds

Sure, you could use your fingerprint to unlock your phone, but NEC developed a way to verify your identity with

Which monitors are worth buying?

With all the work you do, the games you play and the videos you watch, you spend a lot of time staring at your monitor. ...

Best of CES 2015 Awards, PC: Lenovo LaVie HZ550

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Lenovo’s skinny new ultraportable claims to be the lightest 13-inch laptop

It's impossible to convey in a photo how light Lenovo's new ultraportable, the LaVie HZ550, is. So instead I'll say this: When I first picked ...

NEC wants you to spot counterfeits using your phone’s camera

Want to find out whether or not something at the street market is a fake? In the future, you might only have to snap ...

UK police begin trialling the world’s fastest face recognition tech

With more than six million CCTV cameras in operation, Britain is the most watched country in the world. London's police officers are trialling body-worn cameras ...

Facial recognition software helps convict a robber

Watch Dogs' vision of a super-connected Chicago may be truer than you think. A local judge has convicted Pierre Martin of armed robbery after police ...

Intel unveils RealSense hardware and software line, including 3D camera module

The takeaway at today's Intel press event? All signs point to the RealSense product line -- a number of hardware and software products that "make ...

NEC Bids Farewell To The Smartphone Market; I Shed A Tear

NEC hasn’t had the best time in the smartphone market, a market which moves quickly and often eats up those who aren’t strong and determined enough. Up till now, NEC has only been dealing in smartphones in Japan which why most of us wouldn’t even know they were in the smartphone market, let alone leaving [...]

Nikkei: NEC to halt smartphone business after Lenovo deal falls through

Barely a month after NEC introduced the Terrain (seen above), its first phone in the US in eight years, it looks like the company is ...

NEC looking to hawk mobile division to PC partner Lenovo, says Bloomberg

Though we don't get to see its smartphone wares too often stateside or in Europe, NEC has always said its mobile division was ...

NEC’s Medias W global prototype spotted: 4.3-inch Android phone or 5.6-inch tablet? (hands-on)

NEC will launch its dual-screened Medias W in Japan in April, but now the company is working to get the phone landing in ...

NEC’s spring all-in-one PC lineup melds TV with Twitter

Like all-in-one PCs, TV and Twitter? NEC's new desktop PCs might just hit the spot -- if you live in Japan, that is. ...

NTT DoCoMo Medias W N-05E tries Android on a twin-display clamshell

Dual-screen smartphones are few and far between, but NTT DoCoMo and NEC apparently think a pair of displays is better one one, hence the new ...

NEC’s Medias W unveiled: a folding smartphone with two 4.3-inch displays

Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo just outed its spring lineup of handsets, and the Medias W N-05E caught or eye, just like it did ...

NEC revamps its MultiSync lineup with new 24-inch IPS monitor

NEC's MultiSync monitor lineup is well-known for offering a slew of versatile choices -- as such, this year's CES isn't too bad a ...

NEC shows off a super-thin, 12.8mm thick Ultrabook, we go hands-on

Just after wrapping up its CES 2013 press conference, Intel showed off two Ultrabooks: one that's just a concept, and one that you ...

NEC intros 15.6-inch LaVie X Ultrabook in Japan, claims it’s the ‘world’s thinnest’

Following the announcement of its somewhat flexible LaVie Y in Japan, NEC's now introducing us to a new, much sleeker member of the ...

NEC shows 2014-era portable DNA analyzer that could outpace your favorite crime drama

NEC gave us promises of truly on-the-spot forensics when it unveiled its first portable DNA analyzer back in 2007, although the reality hasn't ...

NEC outs cloud computing facial recognition service for merchants

NEC has launched a $880 per month service in Japan that lets merchants profile customers using just a PC and video camera. The ...

NEC NC900C Digital Cinema Projector for small theaters is $30,000

NEC has announced a new digital projector aimed at movie theaters with small screens called the NC900C. This digital cinema projector uses Texas Instruments DLP ...

NEC announces new portable M series projectors

NEC has announced a new line of portable projectors called the M Series. The series includes three mainstream models aimed at education and business users. ...

NEC unveils new budget-priced 19-inch AS192WM computer display

When it comes to green computer displays that are also easy on the budget, NEC has a bunch of options. The company has unveiled a ...

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: October 19, 2012

Welcome to Friday evening, everyone. We’re about ready to kick off the weekend, but before we do, let’s recap the news from the afternoon. Today ...

Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga heading to Japan as NEC LaVie Y in November

Back in August, Lenovo officially announced the Windows RT-equipped IdeaPad Yoga, which is a laptop/tablet hybrid that features a complete 360-degree rotating display that will ...

NEC LaVie Y brings Lenovo’s 360-degree IdeaPad Yoga hybrid tablet to Japan

Don't think that Lenovo is keeping the IdeaPad Yoga's bendy secrets all to itself: its Japanese partner NEC is bringing a variant of ...

NEC Medias Tab UL runs Android 4.0, weighs just over half a pound (hands-on)

Folded in between DoCoMo R&D prototypes and One Piece-themed smartphones unlikely to make it across the Pacific, NEC's new Android tablet caught our ...