Tomoyo Nonaka is female. I wouldn't really bother to point this out in fear of all the hate mail Joel will receive, but it's Japan. Women's rights still have a very, very long way to go over there (particularly in the corporate world), and this a step in the right direction. Tomoyo Nonaka's experience is plentiful, from being a newscaster to CEO of Asahi Beer.

Sa nyo decides on new president and CEO from outside company, Tomoyo Nonaka [DC Watch]

Sanyo Xacti C4

< img src="http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/images/xacti_c4.jpg" alt="xacti_c4.jpg image" width="398" height="211" class="center"/>Sanyo has updated its Xacti flash camcorder line from the C1 model to these new C4s, which appear to have a few nice improvements for those who go tapeless, including a video stabilizer, an upgraded four-megapixel CCD for still images, and a slightly larger LCD screen (1.8-inch instead of 1.5-inch). There are some other slight changes, as well, but it doesn't look like the video quality is any better; we're still talking VGA (640 by 480 pixels at 30 frames per second). Not bad, but not an upgrade, either.

The new colors are nice, too, and I do love this form factor. It's much more usable than I had first thought, and the docking stations make them really handy. (Thanks, Martin!)

< b>Read - Press Release (Japanese) [Sanyo]

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Two New Sanyo Cameras: Xacti DSC-S3, DSC-S4 [Gizmodo]

Personal Life Recorders and Digital
Lifestyle Aggregators

Nick Graydos brings up a good point.

Once we have Personal Life Recorders (PLRs) - we'll need digital lifestyle aggregators (DLAs) to organize all the crap we collect.

Perhaps the biggest barriers to humans utilizing all the technology we offer them - is how to get all this stuff digitzed, uploaded, meta data attached and indexed - before we can utilize it.

PLRs solve that problem.

But we'll need ways of organizing, keeping track of and backing up all our stuff - especially as we move from home to work and school and bop around the world - as well. This all goes along well with the last post I did on dealing with your digital lifestyle - currently.

There are other things that require DLAs as well.

Activity based computing for one. Is it a coicidence that Don Norman influenced me on that one as well?

Clay Shirky calls it Situated software, but I see a more general era of technology - where the human no longer has to bend over to adapt to the weird rules and eccentricities of the software - to use it.

This assumes that the usability issue is finally understood, that soci al interfaces are predominant and that DLAs help us pull it all together.

The PLRs and activity based computing will take us to the next level.

Here's Nick's post which inspired this outburst.....

USA Today ran an article on MRAM (magentic ram) and its impact PLRs - personal life recorders.

The holy grail of devices = Storage Capacity + Battery Life + Device Speed / Responsiveness + Physical Size.

How do you feel about having your life recorded? I'm ready.

Marc Canter has some related ideas that tie into his themes of Digital Lifestyle Aggregation. I really think that Personal Lifestyle Recorders will require Digital Lifestyle Aggregators to sift through all of the data to find the interesting bits.

Imagine a next generation MyYahoo service – which enabled end-users to keep track of their personal (and their families) music, photo, video and file collections and provided them with ‘home publishing’ capabilities to create, store and distribute their own content.  Imagine a social networking environment which matched and found like-minded people and enabled them to participate in activities together (both on-line and in ‘real space’.)...

...Now imagine all of these capabilities and features in one integrated environment – focused in on a particular constituency, content brand or set of activities.  That’s what we call a digital lifestyle aggregator (DLA.)"

[Nick Graydos > thynk]

Comcast subscribers flock to free TiVo
recorders

Dual Layer DVD Shootout - ASUS vs.
Gigabyte 16x Recorders

Northamptonshire Police fit in-car data
recorders to reduce crashes

Personal video recorders on fast-forward
growthwise

TV Viewers 'Love' Their Digital Video
Recorders (Reuters)

Sweet New Sanyo 3G Phones

New Cameras from Pentax, Sanyo

Living Room has information about a bunch of new cameras from Pentax (and one from Sanyo), including this 5.36-megapixel Pentax Optio SV [pictured right], a slim-profile camera with a 5x optical zoom; and the Sanyo Xacti VPC A5, another 5-megapixel camera, although this one has only a 2.8x optical zoom. In addition, Pentax has a new DSLR (called the "*ist" - what is it with camera companies and unpronounceable names? Asteriskist? Wildcardist? Starist? Multiplyist? Fireballist?) and a pistol-grip hybrid camera/camcorder coming out, as well.

Sweet New Sanyo 3G Phone

Two New Sanyo Cameras: Xacti DSC-S3,
DSC-S4

Matsushita Unveils DVD Recorders, Eyes
Higher Share (Reuters)

New Sanyo V801SA 3G Slider Phone

Sanyo S750 3G Phone Review

3G Patent License Agreement for Sanyo

Sanyo Creates Smallest FM Tuner Yet

Sanyo has developed a tiny FM tuner chip that is roughly half the size of current tuners on the market; they're calling it the "Easy Radio IC." It requires no other parts to operate and even has an upcoming version that can tune in AM as well (that's coming in September). At just 5mm wide, there's not any reason that any portable music player should be without FM radio, unless the manufacturer is just too stubborn to put it in.

Re ad - Article (Japanese) [Impress Watch]

KDDI Launches 3G Sanyo Phone

Sanyo VPC-C3 Digital Media Camera

If you're wondering how Sanyo can cram an 8-megapixel sensor into this new VPC-C4 camera, I can tell you: cheating. It's really just a 4-megapixel unit which can use interpolation to upscale the resolution of the shots. That's a not a bad thing, really, but it will provide results far different than those from a true 8-megapixel camera.

The VPC-C4 shares the form factor and much of the feature set of its predecessor, the Fisher FVD-C1 and other Xacti models, although it is improved in almost every way. It still uses just an SD card for storage, for better and for worse.

SANYO VPC-C4 DIGITAL MEDIA CAMERA [LivingRoom]

Sanyo S750 - Orange 3G Handset

Buy our products, Sanyo tells employees

Sanyo lanza los cedés de maíz

Sanyo to make DVD recorders