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...hardest things to get a robot to do is walk on two legs, but nowadays bipedal is practically banal. The real trick is to give your humanoid a smooth, natural gait. The J4, above, JVC's 8-in. showpiece at a recent Tokyo trade show, proved it could walk a nice walk and kick a soccer ball to boot. It's controlled via Bluetooth. The Chroino, right--if we didn't know any better, we'd think it was Playmobil's tribute to Marvin the Martian--also boasts a more graceful stride, thanks to new SHIN-Walk technology that allows...
INVENTORS J4: JVC; Chroino: Tomotaka Takahashi, Robo-Garage, Kyoto University...
...LCOS Liquid Crystal On Silicon projects directly onto the screen with no mirrors. PRO: High contrast and high resolution. CON: There aren't many LCOS sets yet. Philips has discontinued its models. HOT BRAND: JVC...
...past few years, a new breed of tiny, high-capacity digital cassettes has made camcorders smaller than ever. Now JVC eliminates the need for a cassette altogether. Its new Everio, due out in October, is a tapeless camcorder with a tiny 4-GB removable hard drive (the same hardware that's tucked in Apple's iPod Mini) capable of storing up to six hours of DVD-quality video. The camcorder?no larger than the average digital still camera?can also shoot 2-megapixel photographs and has a built-in 10x optical zoom lens for both video and stills. One thing...
...brand: JVC...