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Toshiba is a huge company, but it’s not necessarily known as a maker of robots . Their “Wheelie” for indoor use is an autonomous, 2-wheeled robot, which is still in prototype stage and somehow reminiscent of a Segway in its basic design. Technical details are scare right now, but the main purpose of the robot is to one day help families out with daily chores, for example by serving food

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Wheelie: Toshiba’s new robot is cute, autonomous and maybe even useful (video)

So here’s a deal, but it’s a bit odd. The Toshiba R600 is advertised as being Toshiba’s ultimate notebook, and for the price it better be. You can buy it from Toshiba’s website for $2,099 for the base model which includes a 160GB hard drive, 3GB of RAM, and a 12.1″ screen, and comes standard with Windows 7.

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Crunchdeal: Save $500 on a Toshiba R600 with OpenSolaris

The good gents over at Electric Pig were one of the first people to see the Toshiba StorE TV , a home server for all your digital media files. It combines local storage (up to 2TB) with streaming to ensure that you’re able to play that totally legally acquired movie on your big screen HDTV

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StorE TV: Oh look, another home media server, this time from Toshiba

It’s not the first Hello Kitty TV out there, but this new Toshiba TV is perhaps the one with the most discreet design. Announced [JP] today, the Hello Kitty 19A800KT is a 19-inch LCD TV that sports the cartoon cat on both the device itself and the remote controller

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Toshiba to sell Hello Kitty Regza LCD TV

What do you mean, show more emotion? We all know by now that HP is the largest PC seller out there. Good for HP

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Laptop Mag’s cornucopia of system ratings is really quite thorough

Last summer, Toshiba decided to abandon their self-developed HD-DVD format and to go Blu-ray instead. Soon after, the company started rolling out a few Blu-ray devices here and there, but today Toshiba Japan announced [JP] a flood of new Blu-ray-powered devices

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Vardia: Toshiba announces four new Blu-ray recorders and players

Here’s a selection of yesterday’s stories: DIY: Build your own vacuum tube Tesla coil Someone obviously wants the crowd-developed Cable Caps, but I don’t Forget the whack-jobs, the NASA photos don’t show trees Finally! USB-powered latte foamer Disgusting: The GUMMI-X toy kit is an edible insect maker

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Daily Crunch: Coffee on Mars Edition

Toshiba in Japan announced the Portaro SD-P12DT [JP] today, a new portable DVD player. The main selling point of the device is the 12-inch LCD screen that features an LED backlight and 1,366×768 resolution.

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Portaro: Toshiba announces portable, over-priced DVD player

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Daily Crunch: Chocolate and Jam Edition

Toshiba has announced today the launch of the world’s first 64GB NAND chips that are fully compatible with the so-called e-MMC standard (embedded MultiMediaCard) established last year. The new modules were produced by combining 16 32Gbit NAND chips with Toshiba’s proprietary 32nm process technology and include a controller. The modules are just 30mm thick and can be used in smartphones, netbooks and digital cameras

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Better MultiMediaCards: Toshiba announces world’s first 64GB embedded NAND flash memory module