Sony to launch world's thinnest music playing device

Sony to launch world's thinnest music playing device

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. said Jan. 14 it will launch the world's thinnest music-playing device in April. The card-size Giga pavit HZ-WS2000 is 10.6 millimeters thick and weighs 68 grams, making it the world's thinnest and lightest music player with a hard disk drive, Sony said.

Ushio Lighting's stereoscopic view with VR

Ushio Lighting's stereoscopic view with VR

The development of virtual space (VR) technology for business-to-business (B-to-B) is active. USHIO LIGHTING (Chuo-ku, Tokyo) has developed the world's first system that allows two people to experience stereoscopic vision through VR at the same time. Two major printing companies have released VR systems that are linked to CAD data of houses and condominiums. With the newly developed system, a special program generates a total of four types of images necessary for VR stereoscopic viewing for two people according to the location information grasped by the sensor, and when projected on the wall, floor, or side using three 240 Hz projectors, highly immersive images can be experienced simultaneously from two directions. Image taken on November 29, 2019, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

Asahi Kasei's rigid sound-absorbing foamed products

Asahi Kasei's rigid sound-absorbing foamed products

Asahi Kasei has developed a material made of foamed polyamide hollow beads of 2 mm to 3 mm in diameter. Taking advantage of its hardness and high heat resistance, the company is proposing the material as a component for engine compartment peripherals. The material, which is less than two centimeters thick and is combined with the company's non-woven fabric "Precise," has twice the sound-absorbing property at 1,000 Hz compared to a melamine foam material of the same thickness. In addition to preventing the transmission of sound, the material can also reduce the reflection of sound inside the container when it is processed into a container and the source of sound is placed inside. Photo taken on June 3, 2019, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

Sony to launch world's thinnest music playing device

Sony to launch world's thinnest music playing device

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. said Jan. 14 it will launch the world's thinnest music-playing device in April. The card-size Giga pavit HZ-WS2000 is 10.6 millimeters thick and weighs 68 grams, making it the world's thinnest and lightest music player with a hard disk drive, Sony said. (Kyodo)