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Fast-charge EV battery maker StoreDot pulls in $80M led led by Vietnam’s VinFast

StoreDot, the Israeli next-generation battery technology startup touting an “extreme fast charging” (XFC) battery for electric vehicles, has secured the first close of its latest funding round led

Metalenz reimagines the camera in 2D and raises $10M to ship it

As impressive as the cameras in our smartphones are, they’re fundamentally limited by the physical necessities of lenses and sensors. Metalenz skips over that part with a camera made of a single

Teenage Engineering’s OB-4 ‘magic radio’ is a weird and beautiful wireless speaker

I’ve found a new object of desire which, once acquired, I would probably never use. It’s this OB-4 “magic radio” from Teenage Engineering, a design group that creates tech with

Report: TDK Technology “More Than Doubles” Capacity Of HDDs

Potentially big news from The Nikkei: Japan's biggest business daily has learned yesterday that <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/tdk/">TDK</a> developed a technology that can "more than double" the

TDK Shows Off Transparent Bistable OLED Mobile Display

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/displays-620x424.jpg" />The transparent <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/displays/">display</a> wars are yet to begin, since everyo

Review: TDK 3 Speaker Boombox

Short version: Beautifully styled, modern, and very loud, but USB issues take this from a cool and functional device to a questionable one. (Update: TDK released a firmware update the day after this r

TDK's Retro-Futuristic Boomboxes Look Sweet

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/3speaker.jpg" />TDK recently relaunched itself as a modern tech and audio brand, so stop thinking of them as the people who made your cas

Video: TDK's Amazing See-Through OLED Display Up And Close

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Picture-14-620x557.png" /> One of the highlights of this year's CEATEC (a technology exhibition that took place in Japan earlier this mo

Toshiba Is Working On 1TB Optical Discs

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/tdk_disc-620x370.jpg" /> In July this year, TDK <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/07/20/tdk-second-company-to-announce-100gb-blu-r

CEATEC 2010: Eyes-On With TDK's Bendable And Transparent OLEDs (Video)

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/oled_tdk-620x391.jpg" /> A pleasant surprise at this year's CEATEC: TDK's two passive matrix mini OLED panels, one of which is transpare

TDK second company to announce 100GB Blu-ray discs

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/tdk_bdxl.jpg" /> <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/07/16/sharp-announces-worlds-first-triple-layer-blu-ray-disc-100gb-capacity/">F

TDK announces wireless (Kleer) headphones

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/TH-WR700-620x465.jpg" /> <a href="http://www.tdk.com">TDK</a>'s main business is producing not too sexy electronic materials and data-st

TDK develops method to tint touchscreens

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/tdk_tint_sheets.jpg" /> I'm not really sure if that's something a lot of gadget freaks were waiting for, but here we go: TDK has found a

TDK develops disc capable of holding 320GB

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/tdk_image-620x398.jpg" /> <a href="http://www.tdk.co.jp/tetop01/index.htm">TDK</a> has something pretty interesting in store for next we

TDK still pushing the boundaries of disk density

I love that the technology TDK has used to increase maximum disk density to 803 gigabits per square inch is called “Tunneling Magneto-Resistance” and its replacement “Current-Perpend

TDK Develops Mini Blu-ray Discs for HD Camcorders, 200GB Blu-ray Discs For Everyone

Two Blu-ray developments from TDK today. The first is a 200GB, six-layer Blu-ray disc that can hold four times the amount of “movie” that you get with the current Blu-ray dual-layer discs.

TDK Hits 32GB With NAND

TDK has announced that it’s reached a capacity of 32GB with its new IDE compatible NAND Flash memory. The Flash disk is roughly 20 percent smaller in size than a standard 2.4-inch notebook drive