Sep 26, 2006

Face Detection on Digital Camera

Fujifilm today said that it will ship its Finepix S5 Pro digital SLR camera in early 2007. The camera will provide a resolution of 12.1 megapixels and introduce a face recognition feature: According to the manufacturer, the feature can detect up to ten faces in one image and will allow users to zoom in facial detail, for example whether eyes are open or closed.

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Sep 10, 2006

NXP Semiconductors


Royal Philips Electronics has decided to launch their semiconductor division as an independent company backed by a consortium of private investors where Phillips will retain only 20% of interest. This new company, called NXP, has sales over 5 billion euro, 37k employees and more than 25k patents. The campaign website, describes the vision and mission of this brand-new, top-ten electronics company.
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Sep 4, 2006

Tesla Motors

Imagine a 100% electric car that is more powerful, fast and beautiful than most cars you know. A car that can accelerate to 100km/h in 4 seconds, faster than a Ferrari, and travel 1 mile for 1 cent. This is not a dream anymore, thanks to chairman of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk and others like Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It's little bit pricy now, but it is the future...

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