Word: sanyo
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...months ago, Sanyo introduced a washing machine that it says can clean clothes using only water, ultrasonic waves and electrolysis. No detergent necessary. The machine is environmentally friendly, and gadget-happy Japanese have snapped up more than 30,000 units. But now Sanyo's pitch is being refuted by the Japan Soap and Detergent Association, which says the machine doesn't clean well and can damage clothes. Sanyo says it has no immediate plans to market the product--which has an optional detergent cycle--in the U.S. But Brian Sansoni, a spokesman for the $8.5 billion soap industry, is taking...
Recent Sprint PCS rebates on several Samsung and Sanyo phones have been extremely hot sellers among students. The Samsung 3500, the most popular phone for Sprint customers, had been available for free (with a mail-in rebate) and quickly ran out of stock. In the past few days, the store has had to direct customers interested in the phone to stores in Boston and Brookline...
...beer. It's all enticingly on display under the fluorescent lights of a truck-sized vending machine parked in the lobby of Tokyo's Shibuya Excel Hotel. The New Economy comes in a variety of offerings, and this is the ultimate in high-tech self-serve. Manufactured by Sanyo Electric, this fully automated mini-convenience store is part of a new generation of vending machines popping up in a country that's long been obsessed with coin-slot culture. Sanyo's Auto Shop Vendor isn't just bigger than the Coke-and-coffee machines of the past; advanced mechanical engineering...
...installed sensors clever enough to read the birth date on a driver's license?and savvy enough to recognize a fake ID. Another breakthrough allows machines to send messages directly to maintenance workers, alerting them if a machine needs repair, drinks or snacks?making distribution and upkeep more efficient. Sanyo, meanwhile, has devised a way to fight Japan's rising crime?a new drink dispenser made of a boltless, seamless piece of steel that they say is almost impossible for thieves to pry open...
...LIVING CALLER We love our cell phones (except when we hate them), but nobody likes squinting at those murky little gray-and-black screens. Now we don't have to. Sanyo's new SCP-5000 phone ($500, available only from Sprint PCS) is the first in the U.S. with a screen that displays colors--256 of them, to be exact. Download tiny digital photos of your pals, and when they call, the SCP-5000 will show you their smiling faces. It also surfs the Web, stores 500 phone numbers and 300 e-mail addresses, and plays an incomprehensible game called...