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Half Notebook,
half notepad,
twice as handy.
It looks like a normal Notebook. But the
screen can be detached so you can walk
around with it and take notes, write
memos, check your e-mail or go to a
meeting. This relieves you of the burden
of a keyboard when you want to wander,
but lets you tap back into it in a snap.
Toshiba’s R&D targets.
(That’s Reliability and Dependability.)
Toshiba’s Notebooks already lead the industry when
it comes to reliability. Despite this, a large part of our
R&D effort is directed towards making them even more
reliable. The technologies that emerge from this program
are released under the EasyGuard
™
banner. Since we
introduced EasyGuard
™
, our Mean Monthly No Failure
rates have ranged between 98.5% and 99.5%.
Now we’re working on raising these levels even further.
The target – 99.7% by 2007.
Next generation screens, part 1.
The thin, light LCD screen helped make Notebooks
possible – and we have a division focused on making them
even better. In the meantime though, we’re also pioneering
cheaper, brighter alternatives - like the Organic Light
Emitting Display, or OLED. With OLEDs, the screen itself
emits light – ahh, the wonders of physics – so, unlike an
LCD, it doesn’t need backlighting. As a result, they not only
look great, they also consume less power: it’s a flat screen
that helps avoid flat batteries.
And part 2.
Here’s another approach: the Surface-Conduction Electron-
Emitter Display (or SED, to be slightly more memorable).
This new screen technology has the equivalent of a TV set’s
electron gun behind every single pixel. It’ll produce high
definition images with great brightness, contrast and colour,
all by squeezing half a million picture tubes into one.
The world’s biggest DVD disk.
Toshiba invented and developed the DVD,
which went on to become the most successful
AV product of all time. Now, we’re working on DVD’s
successor. Why? High definition TV.
This next-generation standard delivers images with
1,125 horizontal lines (versus the current 525). The
result will be stunningly sharp movie playback. And a
storage problem, because HD movies will need 8GB
of disk space and current DVDs hold half that. That’s
why we’ve developed HD DVD disks that can hold up
to 45GB. That’s five high definition films. Or a couple
of lifetime’s data backup.
The screen that makes itself hard to see.
Ever been on a flight and caught someone snatching
surreptitious glances at your screen? In the near future,
a clever bit of LCD engineering will make it impossible
for them to learn anything. Our new Privacy Screen
creates an interference pattern that makes it
unreadable to anyone not sitting directly in front of it.
All your nosey neighbours will see is an indecipherable
pattern. And that’s all they should see.