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Panasonic’s Future High Power Lithium Ion Batteries Will Kick 20-30% Harder

Great news: Panasonic not only started mass producing laptop type battery with a record setting rating of 3.1 amp hours this December, but in the next few years, will make these cells with up to 4.0 amps in 2013. Yowzer. Part of the secret is to use nickel instead of carbon for the positive terminal…

Tech News Brian Lam

Panasonic Home Lithium Storage Battery Can Power Your House For a Week

After officially taking over Sanyo earlier this week, Panasonic is hitting the ground running with a joint venture aimed at developing a powerful lithium-ion storage battery than could store enough juice to power an average [Japanese] home for a week. The battery will also include a system that will allow users to monitor their electricity…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Next Week’s Best Buy TV Sales Are Surprisingly Good (Again)

Gary at HD Guru once again snagged next week’s Best Buy TV circular early, and just like last time, the deals are surprisingly good. Here’s a sample, check out his site for the full list and price comparisons: https://gizmodo.com/best-buy-finally-offers-legitimate-sale-prices-5424975 • Samsung PN50B550 50″ 1080p plasma $979.99 • Toshiba 46XV645U 46″ 1080p 120 Hz LCD Best…

Television Chris Jacob

Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn’t Post (and Why)

Abandon all hope, ye who enter Remainders. Today, we’ve got: Windows 7 needs less tech support than anyone expected, Acer’s Olympic-themed laptop, Sprint’s Android phones skipping Android 2.0, and a leaked Panasonic (non-Micro) Four Thirds camera. Windows 7 Customers Are Just so Savvy Windows 7’s tech support lines have been far less busy than expected—but…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

The Best Point and Shoot Cameras for Every Purpose

Mark Goldstein is the Editor of Photography Blog. And he’s been so kind as provide us with his favorite point and shoot picks in every key category. Best for lowlight Canon PowerShot S90 ($400) The camera of the moment, the popular PowerShot S90 is a small but perfectly formed compact for the keen photographer. Concentrating…

Gadgets Mark Goldstein

Panasonic Buys Sanyo for Its Batteries

Panasonic just finished buying a controlling stake in Sanyo for $4.6 billion to form a Voltron of consumer electronics that’s the second biggest in Japan, behind Hitachi. Why? For Sanyo’s batteries. Sanyo’s the biggest global supplier of rechargeable batteries and solar panels, pulling in lots o’ moolah for ’em. [

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Best Camcorders You Can Buy on Every Budget

Kaitlyn Chantry is the editor-in-chief of CamcorderInfo.com. And she’s been so kind as provide us with her favorite camcorders picks in every key price range. Flip MinoHD Don’t be confused by imposters: the ultracompact Flip camcorder is still the hot girl that everyone either wants to have or wants to be. At $230, the second-generation…

Tech News Kaitlyn Chantry

Sony Says Up to Half Its HDTVs Will be 3D in 2012

Whether or not the success of 3D TV hinges on the popularity of 3D films like Avatar, or just our willingness to give in and wear stupid glasses, one thing is clear: TV makers are all about 3D right now. Sony for instance, has 3D laptops, TVs, and Blu-ray players (plus 3D PlayStation games) planned…

Gadgets Danny Allen

The 5 Best HDTV Deals Under $1000

We teamed with HD Guru Gary Merson again, this time to find the best TVs under $1000. This economy has really shocked prices. Forget the off-brands. You can now get a top-name good-looking 50″ TV for $700, and more… https://gizmodo.com/the-5-best-tvs-you-can-buy-5409025 Note: Due to the unprecedented price fluctuations seen on TV pricing this week from online…

Gadgets Wilson Rothman

Panasonic Bragging About Being #1 in Cordless Phones Is Kind of a Bummer

Oh, other companies are being hit by this so-called recession? Not Panasonic! It’s headed to the top of the tech world on a pile of cordless phones. They’re gonna ride this wave forever! PANASONIC MAINTAINS GLOBAL #1 POSITION IN CORDLESS TELEPHONES Data from Leading Research Firm Confirms Substantial Lead in Worldwide Sales of Consumer Telephones…

Tech News Adam Frucci

The 5 Best TVs You Can Buy

We’ve teamed up with the HD Guru himself, Gary Merson, to publish the absolute best five TVs you can buy right now. As you’ll see (and might already notice above), there are some surprises on the list. Panasonic Z1 Panasonic’s flagship HDTV is its thinnest 54-inch plasma HDTV ever, with only 1-inch depth. They did…

Gadgets Wilson Rothman

Panasonic Thinks You Want an iPod Dock With Your MW-10 Photo Frame

The only way companies are making photo frames appetizing now is to combine them with other devices, and in Panasonics MW-10, they shove an iPod dock and speakers into it. The thing has a 9-inch display, SD slot, 4GB of internal memory and USB connectivity. It’ll be $300, which is expensive enough that you might…

Tech News Jason Chen

9h: The Luxury Capsule Hotel

If you go to Tokyo, you may want to check into 9h—Nainawasu in Japanese—a luxury capsule hotel that is 9 stories tall, storing 125 capsules that use Panasonic’s environmental and lighting control system. According to Panasonic, their system controls lighting to guarantee “good sleeping.” I don’t know about you but, to me, “good sleeping” means…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Walmart Selling $200 Xbox 360 This Weekend with Free $100 Gift Card

The leaks were real. This weekend, Walmart is kicking off pre-Black Friday deals, including a $199 Xbox 360 Arcade that comes with a free $100 gift card, effectively dropping the price to $100. Other deals are just as good: https://gizmodo.com/xbox-360-with-free-100-gift-card-deal-might-be-hitting-5396211 • $298 HP Notebook Computer – 3GB memory, 160GB hard drive, Windows 7 Premium •…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Panasonic’s 1-Inch Thin Z1 Plasma Deemed Beautiful, But Pricey in First Review

Who says plasma is dead? The 54-inch TC-P54Z1 improves upon the V10 series, and uses a separate box and wireless HDMI receiver. And after an exhaustive review, HD Guru says it delivers outstanding color, deep black levels, and superior motion. https://gizmodo.com/vizio-drops-out-of-plasma-tvs-5151917 The $5500 beauty uses a G12 1080p NeoPDP panel. Like Pioneer’s Kuro, it does…

Tech News Danny Allen

Panasonic GF1 Review: I <3 Micro Four Thirds

There are four Micro Four Thirds cameras on the market right now. That’s it. But with Panasonic’s GF1, investing in the mini genre makes more sense than ever—if you know what you’re getting into. What the &*^@ is Micro Four Thirds? Olympus and Panasonic co-developed what’s called the Micro Four Thirds standard just last year.…

Reviews Mark Wilson

Dishwasher Robot Ensures Our Future Selves Will Have Zero Personal Responsibility

My elaborate plan to take out years worth of repressed childhood dish washing memories on my own children some day has hit a Panasonic robot-sized snafu. You see, in the future, when we’re flying around in cars and Will Smith is saving us from over-protective robots, the dishes will wash themselves. Case in point, in…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Would You Wear Panasonic’s 3D Glasses?

Panasonic’s been showing off their 3D tech more than any other company, but for the first time, they’ve stood behind the active shutter glasses design as their own. In other words, these are the glasses Panasonic will sell. https://gizmodo.com/panasonics-50-inch-1080p-3d-plasma-on-track-for-2010-5369217 So what do you think? I’m leaning toward pretty horrible. And in fact, with all of…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Panasonic’s Eco-Navi Washer Knows Just How Disgustingly Filthy You Are

In the interest of conserving energy, water, and shame, the Eco-Navi washer uses light-activated sensors to detect your icky-sticky-eugh-so-disgusting stains and adjusts the wash cycles accordingly. What’s really dirty about the whole thing though is the appliance’s price: $3,000. Even if the washer is all eco-friendly with electricity consumption dropping “from 79 watt hours to…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Why is Panasonic the First to Invent a Two-Way Iron?

Unless my Google skills are failing me, this Panasonic 360-Degree iron is the first iron to have the pointed tip at both sides of the iron. It’s been staring us in the face for 100 years, and Panasonic’s is first? By making the back of the iron pointed instead of flat, like every single other…

Tech News Jason Chen

Panasonic’s Future High Power Lithium Ion Batteries Will Kick 20-30% Harder

Panasonic Home Lithium Storage Battery Can Power Your House For a Week

Next Week’s Best Buy TV Sales Are Surprisingly Good (Again)

Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn’t Post (and Why)

The Best Point and Shoot Cameras for Every Purpose

Panasonic Buys Sanyo for Its Batteries

The Best Camcorders You Can Buy on Every Budget

Sony Says Up to Half Its HDTVs Will be 3D in 2012

The 5 Best HDTV Deals Under $1000

Panasonic Bragging About Being #1 in Cordless Phones Is Kind of a Bummer

The 5 Best TVs You Can Buy

Panasonic Thinks You Want an iPod Dock With Your MW-10 Photo Frame

9h: The Luxury Capsule Hotel

Walmart Selling $200 Xbox 360 This Weekend with Free $100 Gift Card

Panasonic’s 1-Inch Thin Z1 Plasma Deemed Beautiful, But Pricey in First Review

Panasonic GF1 Review: I <3 Micro Four Thirds

Dishwasher Robot Ensures Our Future Selves Will Have Zero Personal Responsibility

Would You Wear Panasonic’s 3D Glasses?

Panasonic’s Eco-Navi Washer Knows Just How Disgustingly Filthy You Are

Why is Panasonic the First to Invent a Two-Way Iron?

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