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lcds

JVC Builds 180Hz LCD That Makes 120Hz LCDs Look Like Chumps

Motion blur is a problem in LCDs, and until now, the best solution was 120Hz processing: double the frames, and the blur tends to subside. JVC looked at the situation and said, if doubling works okay, then how 'bout we triple it? This week, at CEATEC, the result was on display. Little is known about this smooth operator—which is a 768-line 720p set and probably just a little bit warm to the touch—but my guess is we're going to be hearing a lot more about 180Hz in the months to come. [Tech-On]

12:00 PM on Fri Oct 5 2007
By Wilson Rothman
5,233 views, 23 comments

Latest by n/a: Are you guys that dumb? That picture is of the same LCD and has been photoshoped for an example. Man you people are idiots. more »

cellphones

Update: E-Paper Phone from DoCoMo Has Ever-Changing Keys

Remember that "e-ink" phone we showed you yesterday? We just got the details and better pics. It's a DoCoMo prototype hard-keypad phone that actually uses e-paper from SiPix, not e-ink, to change the meaning of the keys. More »

10:07 AM on Fri Oct 5 2007
By Wilson Rothman
5,659 views, 9 comments

accessories

Pioneer SE-CLX9 Are Batman's Earphones of Choice

Pioneer just debuted these gorgeous aluminum SE-CLX9 in-ear earphones at CEATEC. Not only are they high-performance 'buds capable of a drum-shaking 105dB, but they come with different nozzles that physically alter the equalization, from "high tune" to "standard" to "bass tune." Best of all, every option is nestled in the OCD-organized utility pack, so there aren't a lot of loose pieces rolling around on the floor of your Batmobile. [Akihabara News; Pics from ASCII]

8:40 AM on Fri Oct 5 2007
By Wilson Rothman
4,212 views, 11 comments

Latest by n/a: Still an interesting approach. I'd like to see them compared to some serious IEMs. Also; are these single-driver-IEMs or twin-driven ones? Anyway, you'll have alot of spare parts to loose :) more »

ceatec2007

Concept Remote Controller from Hitachi Looks Special, Sexy

As CEATEC goes on, the weirder ideas find their way onto the web. Here's Hitachi's concept RC device with an intuitive user interface. Below the bump is a pic of the prototype that they're currently working on.
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5:49 AM on Fri Oct 5 2007
By AddyDugdale
7,070 views, 12 comments

japan

Japanese Stop Motion 3D Video Lets You View Cheerleaders From All Angles

Our buddy Sean Captain got to see this weird Free-Viewpoint Video scheme at CEATEC, which takes a scene and renders it in full 3D—allowing you to zoom around like it were a virtual room in The 7th Guest. The secret is setting up a crapload of still cameras around the side and taking loads of pictures from all angles, then compiling them together to form the virtual room. In this case, you get to see Japanese cheerleaders at angles only train gropers—or Adam Frucci—have. [Pop Sci]

8:00 PM on Thu Oct 4 2007
By Jason Chen
11,780 views, 11 comments

Latest by vidmeister: For the love of God, will someone please teach that joystick driver how to drive? I'm sure there must have been one.. interesting.. angle to be had... more »

ceatec

1mm Thick Flexible Plasma Display Debuts at CEATEC

Recently at CEATEC in Japan Shinoda Plasma Corp unveiled a plasma screen that tops out an an extraordinary 1mm in thickness. Plasma tubes aligned between film-form electrodes not only make the screen thin enough to be bent (as the image above demonstrates), they also make it extremely light. In fact, the 43-inch screen prototype weighed in at only 800g. This could set the stage for truly gigantic displays—79 x 118-inches or more created by seamlessly combining screens during the manufacturing process. Naturally, I would love to hook an Xbox up to something like this right now, but chances are it will take the better part of a decade before we can get our hands on it. [TechOn via Technabob] More »

2:00 PM on Thu Oct 4 2007
By Sean Fallon
1,368 views, 1 comment

Latest by Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Brian's take on that was a little harsher... But yeah, an interesting technology, even though it's years from reaching the market, and not very refined yet. But it sounds like you can make some "TV fabric" out of that. Interesting... I saw some more »

design concept

Unique Cellphone Techno-Demoed at CEATEC 2007

At first glance, there's nothing special about this cellphone just demonstrated at CEATEC Japan 2007, but upon closer inspection you'll notice that the keyboard uses electronic ink (e-ink) SiPix electrophoretic technology, a type of e-paper that's capable of changing the display on each alphanumeric key whenever the spirit moves you. Just hit a Shift key and you can see an entirely different set of characters, similar to that possibly-forthcoming Optimus Maximus keyboard by Art.Lebedev. That concept will have major advantages for a cellphone. More »

3:45 PM on Wed Oct 3 2007
By Charlie White
5,570 views, 16 comments

Latest by LittleJon: @EQC: I see now what you meant. You're right that you would still need a normal screen for fast response menus, etc. However this could also mean that a smaller back-lit screen is needed, so that would save power. I think more »

ceatec2007

Omnidirectional Speaker Works as Jedi Training Drone Too

This is actually a 32-sided speaker from CEATEC, although I think it would work very well as either a steampunk microphone, a glitter ball for the Tin Man, or a lollipop for Ro-lita, a sexy underage she-bot. [Gizmodo Japan]

7:53 AM on Wed Oct 3 2007
By AddyDugdale
2,601 views, 10 comments

ceatec2007

DocoMo Shows off a Halitosis- and Fat-Detecting Concept Cell

The Wellness phone is about as mean as you can get. A concept that DoCoMo has been only too happy to show off at CEATEC this week, the cell measures how bad your breath is on a scale of 1 to 10 — zero presumably means you're dead — and how overweight you are. There are other health-related features as well, such as a calorie counter and pedometer. Is this the saddest phone concept ever made? Probably. [GearFuse via MobileMentalism]

7:28 AM on Wed Oct 3 2007
By AddyDugdale
1,694 views, 4 comments

Latest by Amiash: hmm good enough for those people who are so wellll....VAIN and to those people who dont care bout themselves. more »

panasonic

Panasonic DMR-BW900 Blu-ray Recorder Writes to 50GB Dual Layer Discs or a TB of HDD

Recording 18 hours of 1080p on a single disc is pretty serious stuff, and Panasonic Blu-ray recorders launched at CEATEC Japan do this. They do this via a digital TV tuner, MPEG 4 compression and support for 50GB dual layer discs you'd see on a PC recorder, but never before on a home theater box. The players also have HDDs in them, up to $2600 for a 1TB model (there are five other lesser models, too, and the phrase product spam comes to mind). The terabyte drive can do 381 hours of recording, but using that lowest setting for 1080p seems perverse and wrong. Transferring from HDD to disc can be done at 4x. Japan only, for now, and given the high-endness of this setup and American HDMI DRM, maybe forever. [PC World]

2:50 PM on Tue Oct 2 2007
By Brian Lam
8,174 views, 6 comments

Latest by ChopSue-Me: @SpeneyG: 1080i is no cake walk either in terms of bitrate... more »

ceatec2007

CrushBox Destroys the Evidence that You May Want to Hide

Last week, Adam set about crushing unwanted gadgets with such glee that I think our Japanese brethren have found the perfect present for him at CEATEC. The CrushBox will pulverize everything from cards, cellphones, CD/DVD to videotape (are you listening Paris, Meg, Eva, Pamela?)—in short, anything gadget-y or tech-y that could compromise you. There's a pic of the results below. More »

6:11 AM on Tue Oct 2 2007
By AddyDugdale
5,721 views, 14 comments

ceatec2007

Mitsubishi Debuts a 140-Inch LED Display at CEATEC


Behold the Resolia, Mitsubishi's 140-inch display that's been getting Ooh-ed and Aah-ed in Tokyo this week. Full measurements are 120 x 70 x 5.9 inches, but after all the excitement of Sony's OLED goodness yesterday, it leaves us wanting—well — less. [Gizmodo Japan]

5:49 AM on Tue Oct 2 2007
By AddyDugdale
8,031 views, 15 comments

hd dvd

Toshiba Shows Updated HD DVD Player at CEATEC

Toshiba rolled out a prototype of its next HD DVD player at CEATEC in Japan, and from the looks of it, it's about half the height of Toshiba's first outing into the HD DVD player world, the HD-A1. The remote looks to be slightly improved as well with its easier-to-read labels, but still suffers from ranks and rows of nondescript chiclet-like buttons. More »

11:34 AM on Fri Oct 6 2006
By Charlie White
162 views, 13 comments

blu-ray

Prototype: Hitachi Mini Blu-Ray Camcorder

This little camcorder, revealed at the Japan-only CEATEC, records directly to itty bitty Blu-Ray discs, and looks like a Gundam shoulder mounted cannon. This reminds us of the low-end Samsung mini dvd-camcorder we wrote about a few weeks ago. Except that one was cheap and terrible, and this one will never see a Best Buy store shelf, and is completely awesome. More »

11:23 AM on Fri Oct 6 2006
By Brian Lam
770 views, 3 comments

toshiba

Toshiba Intros Portable Media Player at CEATEC

Toshiba was showing off a video player at CEATEC in Japan that's a hybrid DVD and personal media player (PMP), and it also supports the DivX video codec and 1seg digital TV. More »

9:50 AM on Tue Oct 3 2006
By Charlie White
398 views, Comment