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Panasonic’s 13MP Lumix Phone Looks Like a Crappy Sony Ericsson, Disappointingly

They promised more info for this week, and they gave us new info. Unfortunately…it’s not quite shaping up to what we were hoping for, considering Lumix’s awesome reputation. Budget Sony Ericsson with 13MP camera, anyone? It looks very Japan-only to me. It was on show at CEATEC in Japan today, where various sites managed to…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 5

Dual Screen Netbook Concept Actually Looks Practical

I was pretty skeptical about Kohjinsha’s dual 10.1-incher when I first wrote about it, but it actually looks decently engineered in this video. The second display simply slides out behind the first, like on GScreen’s Spacebook and Lenovo’s W700. https://gizmodo.com/kohjinsha-netbook-concept-has-dual-10-1-inch-screens-5375159 It’s slightly thicker than a normal netbook, but the insides are pretty much the same:…

Tech News Danny Allen Oct 29

Yamaha Quietly Shows Off 1mm-Thick Cloth Speaker

Yamaha’s booth at CEATEC featured a few cloth posters with mundane advertisements on them that seem to lack any attention-grabbing oomph—until you step directly in front of them and realize that they’re incredibly thin directional speakers. Whoa! It’s tough to judge the sound quality from the brief video taken by Engadget, but we’re going to…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 10

Mitsubishi’s Modular 155-Inch OLED Screen

Remember the advertising-laden skyscrapers from Blade Runner? Mitsubishi’s now got the tech to do it: its Diamond Vision screen uses individual 4-inch square OLED panels that can scale to an unlimited size. Check out the 155-incher on show at CEATEC: That’s definitely the biggest OLED screen I’ve heard of. Of course, the individual panels are…

Tech News Danny Allen Oct 8

Toshiba’s Stylish Next-Gen Smartphones Could Arrive This Year

Back in April, some pretty interesting renders of Toshiba’s upcoming mobile product line leaked out, and now seemingly near production-ready versions of the slick-looking WinMo 6.5 devices are on show at CEATEC (Japan’s version of CES). Take a look: https://gizmodo.com/leaked-toshiba-k01-k02-and-l01-ultraportables-love-fol-5211338 The K01 (shown above) is a QWERTY slider with a 4.1-inch capacitive touchscreen, and is…

Tech News Danny Allen Oct 8

Fujitsu F-Circle Rotary Smartphone Comes from Past’s Future

Fujitsu says that their F-Circle concept phone—designed by Yuji Ito and shown at CEATEC in Japan—has a “timeless appearance.” Liars. I know your cellphone comes straight from the 60s, and apparently it can detect land mines. [Pink Tentacle]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 8

Video: Toshiba’s Latest Fuel Cell Prototype Gadgets Charge in Seconds

At Japan’s CEATEC show, Toshiba and KDDI are demonstrating a modified Toshiba T002 phone that’s powered by a direct-methanol fuel cell (DMFC) and Li-Ion battery. More advanced than previous prototypes, it runs for 320 hours on a squirt of methanol. DMFCs produce electricity from a reaction of methanol, water, and air—the only by-products are a…

Tech News Danny Allen Oct 8

What Is This Guy Doing?

What is Mr. Roboto doing here? Perhaps checking some CEATEC booth girl’s ass? Staring at the suspicious character crawling towards him off camera, the one dressed as a giant pink chicken? No, the answer is much cooler than all that: He’s actually controlling an MP3 planer with his eyes. There’s no camera involved here, no…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 7

Kohjinsha Netbook Concept Has Dual 10.1-inch Screens

I’m still not sure about this dual-screen laptop thing, but it’s interesting to see more concepts come out of the woodwork. The latest is Kohjinsha’s dual 10.1-inch screen netbook prototype, which is on display at the CEATEC show in Japan. Like Lenovo W700, one screen can slide behind the other if you don’t need to…

Tech News Danny Allen Oct 6

Toshiba’s Cell-Powered REGZA 55X1 LCD TV Can Record and Display 8 Channels At Once

Toshiba’s first TV with the PS3 Cell processor it helped develop has seriously kick-ass specs. For starters: The 55-incher’s LED backlighting divides the 240Hz display into 512 individually controlled areas, and has a dynamic contrast ratio of 5,000,000:1. The Cell processor also provides self-congruency for improved image quality at the edge of the picture, enhanced…

Tech News Danny Allen Oct 5

A Robot with Pigtails? What Next, Japan?

The creepiest — or most exciting — thing you will see on YouTube today is this new video of the Repliee R-1, an android that just went for its first spin at the 2008 CEATEC Exhibition in Japan. Based on an actual five-year-old girl, this robot can speak, wave, walk, pick things up, and even…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel Oct 12

Panasonic Smart Home Probably Won’t Try to Kill You like HAL 9000

Panasonic demoed their Smart Home concept at CEATEC this week. Smart Home seems to be an integrated system that controls the electronics in your house, from lighting to air conditioning to multimedia. Even the television will slide to follow you around, which actually looks sort of creepy and desperate. The mirror isn’t a mirror at…

Television Dan Nosowitz Oct 4

Pioneer 3D Floating Vision: Half Wii, Half Surface, All 3D

Pioneer showed off their new Floating Vision technology at CEATEC this year. It’s a system of layers: first, an LCD with built-in computer, then an array of 3D lenses, and finally the “space sensor,” or virtual screen, where you can wave your fingers around and watch the 3D animations react accordingly. But the space sensor…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 4

Hitachi DLNA Camcorder Concept Streams HD Video to TVs As It’s Shot

Hitachi showed off a cool-looking camcorder concept at CEATEC this week, which adds a Wi-Fi module for streaming video from its hard drive or what’s being shot live over WLAN to your TV. For recorded video it uses DLNA, which means it will work with any number of DLNA-compatible HDTVs or a PS3. For live…

Tech News John Mahoney Oct 3

Panasonic EZ Touch Remote Features Dual-Touchpads, Simple But Effective Interface

Remote controls might not be the sexiest of gadgets to overhaul, but Panasonic’s done a pretty neat job with this recent revamp. The company demoed a touch-sensitive remote at CEATEC, which features a touchpad on each end of the device and a crowd of buttons in the middle. Instead of using a touchscreen like many…

Television Elaine Chow Oct 2

Panasonic Lifewall Is the All-Knowing Gesture-Controlled TV of the Future

If only the ancient Chinese Had Panasonic’s LifeWall, they could have fended off nomadic tribes with HDTV instead of bricks and battlements. But since we live in the future, we can shut out the rest of the world with television that not only stretches from floor to ceiling, it follows people around the room. Panasonic’s…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 2

JVC Pseudo 3D Glasses Don’t Cause Headaches, Still Look Dorky

Digital tech has reinvigorated the 3D dream since the cardboard glasses and headaches of yesteryear. JVC showed off a nifty prototype TV at CEATEC outside Tokyo that converts high-def 2D video into what it calls “pseudo 3D” in real time. With the eyewear on, it takes a few moments for your brain to adjust, and…

Television Elaine Chow Oct 1

Hands-on with the Sony Alpha 900

There’s something about the 24-megapix Sony Alpha 900 DSLR, which hits stores in Japan on October 23rd for about 330,000 yen ($3,150), that feels great. It might have been the two lovely models in Hawaiian wraps that the electronics giant had posing for shutterbugs at CEATEC outside Tokyo, or it might be the 900’s 35mm…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 1

KDDI Cellphone Concepts from the Space Age

Japan cellphone carrier KDDI has a knack for turning out handsets that belong in museums. Past hit designs like the INFOBAR, talby, neon and MEDIA SKIN made into the permanent collection at the MoMa in New York. The trendy telecom showed off some of its concepts at CEATEC outside Tokyo, showcasing the talents of Hideo…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 1

Nikkai OLED Buttons Are Like Little Scraps of Optimus

For those who don’t need a whole keyboard full of OLED buttons, Nikkai is showing off standalone units at CEATEC. The buttons are bulkier than anything on an Art Lebedev product, and seem to have three input states: depressed, tilted left and tilted right (or up and down, depending on orientation) which makes makes for…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 1

CEATEC

Panasonic’s 13MP Lumix Phone Looks Like a Crappy Sony Ericsson, Disappointingly

Dual Screen Netbook Concept Actually Looks Practical

Yamaha Quietly Shows Off 1mm-Thick Cloth Speaker

Mitsubishi’s Modular 155-Inch OLED Screen

Toshiba’s Stylish Next-Gen Smartphones Could Arrive This Year

Fujitsu F-Circle Rotary Smartphone Comes from Past’s Future

Video: Toshiba’s Latest Fuel Cell Prototype Gadgets Charge in Seconds

What Is This Guy Doing?

Kohjinsha Netbook Concept Has Dual 10.1-inch Screens

Toshiba’s Cell-Powered REGZA 55X1 LCD TV Can Record and Display 8 Channels At Once

A Robot with Pigtails? What Next, Japan?

Panasonic Smart Home Probably Won’t Try to Kill You like HAL 9000

Pioneer 3D Floating Vision: Half Wii, Half Surface, All 3D

Hitachi DLNA Camcorder Concept Streams HD Video to TVs As It’s Shot

Panasonic EZ Touch Remote Features Dual-Touchpads, Simple But Effective Interface

Panasonic Lifewall Is the All-Knowing Gesture-Controlled TV of the Future

JVC Pseudo 3D Glasses Don’t Cause Headaches, Still Look Dorky

Hands-on with the Sony Alpha 900

KDDI Cellphone Concepts from the Space Age

Nikkai OLED Buttons Are Like Little Scraps of Optimus

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