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KDDI Delivers "World's First 3D Mobile Phone Screen"

The term "word's first" gets thrown around a lot with gadget releases, but with kooky creative phone maker KDDI behind the project, I'm a lot less skeptical about the claim that they have developed the first 3D cellphone screen. You can't get the full effect from the images here, but it appears that this prototype 3.1-inch 480 x 800 WVGA LCD utilizes the "parallax barrier method" that divides images or video separately for the right and left eye. Naturally, no timetable for a release has been revealed. [IT Media via Mobile Mentalism]

4:40 PM on Thu Oct 9 2008
By Sean Fallon
4,387 views, 8 comments

Latest by JEmlay: @JEmlay: I was being sarcastic do to the fact they are hiding most of the screen. They didn't make the more »

cellphones

Yamaha Trumpet...Cellphone?


Yamaha and KDDI put together a group of concept cellphones with musical themes, including a trumpet, guitar, DJ scratch pad, and drums. [MobileMentalism and AkihabaraNews]

1:31 PM on Sat Aug 30 2008
By Brian Lam
7,213 views, 9 comments

concepts

KDDI's Concept Cellphone is Half Transformer, Half Musical Box

The KDDI AU Design Project bunch over in Japan have stumped up with this latest concept phone for music cellphones of the future. And it blends two things we like a Giz: funky cellphone tech and Transformers. In fact Box To Play is less "robot in disguise," and more "hi-fi in disguise" because when it's a phone, it's a normal phone—keypad, camera and such—but when it transforms it's its own speaker system with a graphical visualizer around its faces. Neat, and exactly the sort of innovative design I'd like to see in future phones. Check out the movie of the concept in action at the KDDI link. [KDDI AU]

4:28 AM on Thu Aug 21 2008
By Kit Eaton
6,097 views, 5 comments

Latest by silvarga: It's all good and well until someone summons the Cenobites. more »

concepts

Japan's Ply Concept a Multilayered Fantasy Phone

This phone, inspired by the multiple layers of wooden sandwich in plywood, is of multiple slider design. Inside, and separated by tabs, are a printer, projector, gamepad and sliding downward, a dialpad. It's as cool as it is impossible to build, and so KDDI labs should feel proud for making an imaginary device with so much character. [KDDI via Cscout]

10:25 PM on Wed Aug 20 2008
By Brian Lam
5,724 views, 22 comments

Latest by The Magnificen7: @bombs_away: And, by that logic, why is he still dead? more »

magic

Visual Search Engine Coming to iPhone in June

Evolution Robotics ViPR visual search technology is coming to the iPhone this June. ViPR allows you to take a photo of any movie, CD or book, send it to a server, and automagically get an email back loaded with information and links pointing to YouTube videos or iTunes Music Store links. It will also be deployed in Japan on KDDI's au camera phones this Spring. As you will see in the iPhone demo after the jump, it works incredibly well, even when the object is partially occluded: More »

8:30 AM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By Jesus Diaz
23,425 views, 43 comments

Latest by atheos: I still find Shazam (audio search engine) to cause more "WOW!" effect than this. And WTF, you have to manually more »

japan

KDDI Japan's Delicious Spring Keitais Look Like Candy

You can't buy cellphones from KDDI unless you live in Japan. You can't even import em and use em here. But clicking around their website and exploring their spring line up of handsets feels like a museum. From the future. I've explored random Japanese handsets before and still enjoy looking at them, no matter if the foreign UI renders them nothing more than pieces of electronic art. [KDDI' s Spring Line via Giz Japan] More »

9:41 PM on Tue Jan 29 2008
By Brian Lam
4,387 views, 15 comments

Latest by revisedandenlarged: I'll ask once more for someone to tell me where to get a KDDI "Talby". Well? All I want is more »

gadgets

Japanese Infrared Revamp Transfers at Gigabit Speeds

While IR is still quite useful for certain things, transferring data between devices is something very few people still use it for. Japan's KDDI R&D labs, however, have managed to increase the transfer rate 250 times to 1Gbps with a semiconductor laser that blinks incredibly fast. Although 1Gbps is fast, it doesn't quite transfer a full CD of music in less than a second (which is 650MB). Point is, if they can manage to put this into cellphones, we'll finally be able to get our contacts over really really fast. [Digital World Tokyo]

3:30 PM on Mon Jan 21 2008
By Jason Chen
2,853 views, 12 comments

Latest by spincycle: A bit is NOT a byte. Get it straight. more »

piracy

KDDI Develops Pirated-Video-Detecting Software

KDDI research labs in Japan has developed a new system for detecting pirated material on the internet automagically. By detecting whether the footage was shot on an amateur or professional camera, what method was used to encode it, and things of that nature, they claim they can detect illegal material with a 98% success rate. More »

11:00 AM on Mon Nov 19 2007
By Adam Frucci
2,053 views, 6 comments

Latest by caL: so all those movie theater camrips will get by just fine. way to go anti-piracy police!! arrr more »

magic touch

Intra-Body Communication: Use Your Body to Download Data

Imagine being able to download a movie or album to your media player by simply touching a promotional poster or exchanging contact information with a potential client via a handshake. KDDI's new Intra-Body Communication technology could make this a reality by using the human body as a conduit to transmit high-volume data. In the image above, the video is being transmitted from the girl's hand, through her body to the glasses, and out to the monitor. More »

6:40 PM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By Sean Fallon
3,992 views, 15 comments

Latest by Andrew_Cho: @slez : so everyone's gonna wear like, 10 rings ,2 watches, and 7 bracelets? just kidding... more »

japanese cellphone design

The KDDI Design Center's Futuristic Concept Phones and Less Impressive Regular Phones

In Harajuku, near the bridge that all the socially awkward cosplay teenagers hang out on on Sundays, is the KDDI Design Center, a temple dedicated to Japanese phones. Inside they've got all of this year's KDDI phone models, a display on futuristic phone concepts, and every phone offered by the Japanese carrier on display for potential customers to get their greasy fingerprints all over.
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11:00 AM on Tue Oct 23 2007
By Adam Frucci
4,946 views, 14 comments

Latest by Lars: Adam: A few fact checks would seem to be in order: ++ The Helio FIN is 11.4mm thin. DoCoMo has 4 ultra-slim more »