Design News - Clean Air Anytime, Anywhere: SANYO’s New ‘Eneloop Air Fresher’ - TAXI Design Network

Design News - Clean Air Anytime, Anywhere: SANYO’s New ‘Eneloop Air Fresher’ - TAXI Design Network: "Sanyo announces the 'eneloop air fresher', the latest member of the 'eneloop universe' product lineup. This new product combines the benefits of eneloop portability by adopting the use of rechargeable battery for total flexibility, sporting a lightweight and compact design, with the benefits of SANYO's proprietary electrolyzed water technology used to clean the air with the 'virus washer' function.

The built-in rechargeable battery can be reused up to approximately 500 times. Using only tap water, the 'virus washer' function is able to suppress airborne bacteria*1, viruses*2 and allergens*3 such as pollen, as well as odors such as cigarette smoke and pet-related smells. The new 'eneloop air fresher' will become available in stores in Japan starting from February 21, 2008."

CES 2008: Gizmodo Selects eneloop Booth As Top 10

The technology news site, Gizmodo included the eneloop booth to their top 10 Best Booths of CES 2008.

FREE eneloop Spacers

Sanyo USA is offering FREE C-cell and D-cell spacers when purchasing eneloop batteries between Sept 1, 2007 and Dec 31, 2007

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Imaging Resource Production Review: Canon PowerShot S5 IS

Batteries. Here you can see where the batteries and SD card go. We had trouble with older NiMH, but the Eneloop batteries did quite well.

The Canon S5 IS comes bundled with 4 AA alkaline batteries, which you should immediately relegate to another electronic device or to the junk drawer for emergencies only, since you'll only get about 170 shots from alkalines, if you're lucky. You're much better off picking up 4-8 rechargeable NiMH batteries and a charger. The latter delivers, according to CIPA standard, about 450 shots per charge--a much better deal all the way around. We found that a few of our older NiMH batteries didn't work for more than a few seconds with the Canon S5 IS, so make sure you get a fresh set. Here we switched to Sanyo's new Eneloop batteries, which promise a longer shelf life, and we had no trouble. Read Review

i-SOBOT will hit retail shelves mid November

TOMY Corporation's revolutionary and award-winning i-SOBOT humanoid robot marks its official U.S. debut at 1:00 pm Pacific Time on Tuesday, October 30 during concurrent online (http://www.tomy-usa.com/mediaroom, password isobot) and brick-and-mortar press conferences. Standing 6.5 inches in height, the fully articulating and bipedal i-SOBOT is set to revolutionize the toy and hobby marketplace when it debuts on retail shelves including Sharper Image and Neiman Marcus in mid November for a suggested retail price of $299.

Expected to be a top-seller this holiday season, i-SOBOT is endowed with 17 custom developed servo-motors, 19 integrated circuit chips, a built in gyro-sensor, 2 LEDs, voice command recognition and can speak and perform hundreds of words, phrases and preprogrammed actions, over 90 kinds of sound effects and play five songs. Movements feature walking, dancing, martial arts, pushups, soccer and many more. For all of its advanced functionality, i-SOBOT is easy and enjoyable to use. It comes with four
basic operating modes all of which take advantage of true bipedal walking action and intricate eight-directional movement, and showcase his fun and engaging personality. The package includes an infrared remote control, three Sanyo Eneloop "AAA" NiMH rechargeable batteries and a charger.

i-SOBOT is listed in the prestigious Guinness World Records(TM) as "the smallest humanoid robot in production." "We are very pleased to have i-SOBOT recognized by Guinness World Records," said TOMY President Kaz Sugiyama. "Although small in stature, i-SOBOT is loaded with features typically reserved for high priced (assembly) kits. TOMY designers have ensured that all consumers can now enjoy this innovative robot right out of the box."


Consumers can track i-SOBOT's journey to the U.S. on the i-SOBOT's Myspace Page.

IGN: Battery Play Test

Battery Play Test
Putting the Sanyo eneloop through its paces.
by IGN Staff

June 13, 2007 - In the last article, we took a look at the features of the Sanyo eneloop rechargeable batteries. Now it's time to test out which devices benefit most.

Granted, you're going to get good mileage from the electronics you use rechargeable batteries in, so we wanted to focus on a few devices that you might get a lot of use from.



IGN: Battery Play Test

IGN: New Breed of Rechargeable Batteries

IGN: New Breed of Rechargeable Batteries: "June 7, 2007 - In this day and age, it's likely that you use multiple digital devices on a daily basis. More when you're traveling. That's a lot of juice to keep things running. Folks concerned with the environment (everyone should be actually) have switched to energy saving light bulbs and other green measures.

Rechargeable batteries have been around for decades and the initial motivation was to save money. The up front cost was nothing compared to how much one could save over buying a similar amount of normal batteries over the long haul. Still, there was the fact that they always needed to be charged before use and didn't hold their charge for long.

The batteries are ready to go right out of the package.

Enter Sanyo's eneloop rechargeable batteries. They're ready for use the minute you bring some home from a store and open the packaging. They also hold that charge for quite a while. Sanyo estimates that a full battery will retain about 90% of its charge after 6 months, compared to 75% for normal rechargables. The huge difference is at one year, the eneloop will still have 85% of its charge while a normal one will be at zero. On top of that, the amount of usage you get per charge is greater than standard NiMh batteries.
Looking at the long term picture, the eneloop can also be charged up to 1000 times. If you use up and charge a pair of batteries once a week, you would get 19 years worth of usage! Sanyo doesn't offer a hard guarantee on that claim, but it shouldn't be far off from that.



If all that wasn't friendly for the environment, the batteries and even the packaging are made of materials that are far easier to recycle. The eneloop comes in only AA or AAA sizes. Adapters are available for C and D sizes. For more info, you can check out the official eneloop site here ."