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Some notable achievements in
areas other than Notebooks.
Toshiba has a broad range of interests. What unites them is an emphasis on advanced technology,
and a concern with providing people with essential services and the tools they need to get more
out of life.
Toshiba has a medical equipment division that leads the world. Take the new Aquilon CAT scanner, for
example. It builds extremely precise 3-D images of a patient’s body. Then, because each tissue has a
slightly different density, a radiologist can remove them one at a time leaving only those of most interest
– like the blood vessels and heart in the images at right. It’s a revolutionary technology, made possible by
a winning combination of Toshiba software and hardware. A balance also achieved in our notebooks.
The quickest way to
get to the top.
A Toshiba elevator.
The Taipei Financial Centre is the world’s
tallest building – it has 101 above-
ground floors and towers half a kilometre
over the city. To handle the daily flow of
people, Toshiba supplied and installed
61 elevators. Two of these service the
highest floors. They’re able to reach
speeds of 1,010 vertical metres a minute,
making them the fastest elevators in the
world – a fact recognised in the Guinness
Book of Records in 2006.
If you ever have a malfunction,
Toshiba can help identify the problem.
