Walk down the Omotesando shopping avenue in Tokyo Japan, lots of people with umbrellas and dressed smartly to have fun and shop. Lots of queuing for Chicago and Seattle style pop-corn stores.
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KOA Muscle Suit
The muscle suit provides extra strength for lifting items. KOA corporation is itself a producer of sensors. The muscle suit remains under development and is not on the market yet. The muscle suit is powered through a cable and a small battery. KOA also produces a touch sensor.
Mitsubishi Laservue 4K Laser TV
This Mitubishi 4K Laser TV uses red laser to produce the industry’s best red colors in addition to using blue and gree LED in this 4K LCD. Mitsubishi’s TV is one of the only laser 4k Tvs market. Some of Mitsubishi’s Laser TVs are on the market but are only sold in Japan for a price of about 2,000 USD and are currently only available in 1080p.
Electric DeLorean DMC-12
DC Power power produces a DC motors and produces a DC motor for electric DeLorean DMC-12 shown here at CEATEC 2013. The DeLorean DMC-12 was used in the film Back To The Future. Thi DeLorean DMC-12 prototype can travel a distance of 50-60km or 31-37 miles with the possibility for more battery.
Pioneer Booth Tour at CEATEC 2013
Pioneer shows DJ equipment that uses iPads, HUD heads-up-display for cars, speakers, Miracast or MHL functionality, the mixtrax application, electric car wireless charging and more at the CEATEC 2013 consumer electronics conference in Tokyo.
Nissan’s Self-driving Car at CEATEC 2013
Nissan shows their own self driving car similar to Google’s but without the volodyne radar system. Adding the technology to cars requires few changes to a car. The question is to know how far they are with development and if they can show this car on real roads in real traffic soon like Google does or not.
Mitsubishi Satellites at CEATEC 2013
Mitsubishi talks about their Satellites that go into space as well as smaller sized models of said satellites. Mitsubishi is itself is a contractor for governments. Mitsubishi has five satellites in space.
Sonostar E Ink Smartwatch prototype
Here’s the latest Sonostar E Ink smartwatch prototype. The Bluetooth 4.0 data connection and E Ink screen seem to be working, now the main challenge I think is going to be app support, how Android is going to send over which data to the E Ink screen, there needs to be a Wearable Computer protocol for Android, one in which things like app notifications, small versions of apps can automatically be sent over to such a smaller display as this E Ink Bluetooth 4.0 smartwatch.
Read more about it over at: http://www.sonostar.com
Panasonic 4K Booth Tour at CEATEC 2013
Panasonic shows all their latest 4K technologies, launching a 65″ 4K, showing off a 55″ RGB printed OLED screen, 4K 20″ tablet, 4K Camcorder (coming soon), showing HDMI 2.0 on their 4K, 4K upscaling, and more about Panasonic’s 4K engine.
Kyocera Smart Sonic Sound piezo film speaker
Kyocera displays a wide range of products based on its fine ceramics technology. Highlights of the booth included the company’s new 1mm ultra-thin Smart Sonic Sound piezo film speaker, and its newest mobile phones featuring the Smart Sonic Receiver technology which transmits clear voice reception via vibrations on the display screen. These Smart Sonic technologies utilize a piezoelectric ceramic actuator to create new ways to provide audio in consumer electronics. Also, as an established player in the solar energy field, Kyocera plans to launch one of the largest mega solar power plants in Japan this fall. Furthermore, the company sells a wide range of electronic components, and even makes recrystallized gemstones which are used as decorative materials in various products such as watches and cars.
Mastor Steadicams and Octa-copter steady Filming Devices
Mastor produces motorized gyroscope based steadicams, Gimbal Systems and Unmanned Aerial Systems for steady filming, the company is Hong Kong based. Mastor is itself a relatively new company being 6 months old. Mastor also had a IFA booth as well. Some of the products Mastor makes includes filming helicopters (Octa and Quad versions available) and devices for holding your smartphone, point and shoot and or larger sized camaera. The smartphone holder will come in February for 230 Euro or 313 USD. The GOPRO holder will retail for 299 Euro or 407 USD. The camera holder for directors has a remote control and sells for a much higher price.
Cambrios ClearOhm keynote at CEATEC 2013 (with Japanese translation)
Cambrios chief marketing officer Sriram Peruvemba speaks at the CEATEC 2013 about the Cambrios ClearOhm silver-nanowires technology. This is the full version that includes the Japanese translations, I may post a version half the length with all the Japanese translations edited out in the next couple of days.
Ginza street in Tokyo Japan
Walking on the Ginza shopping street in Tokyo.
Honda U3-X UNI-CUB motorized Unicycle, awesome
Honda UNI-CUB unicycle robot is an amazing motorized self-balancing unicycle mobility device, it can hold 100 Kilograms or 220 pounds. The robot itself would most likely be released next year and the price is not yet known. The robot itself needs to be optimized for people of higher weight. The Robot itself can be controlled with a smartphone or tablet.
Toshiba Dynabook Kira
The Toshiba Dynabook Kira was presented at CEATEC. It has most of the basic specs of an ultrabook but with a high resolution 2560×1600 display. Each display is individually color calibrated at the factory itself. The price is a very steep 1600 USD. The Dynabook Kira is the successor the z830 series and features an upgraded more durable design. The benchmarked battery life is 9.5 hours which is about 1.5 times the battery of the previous model.
Sharp Electronic Medical Chair
The Sharp eletronic medical chair allows one to find out basic information on the condition of your body such as blood pressure. The device itself features a touchscreen for interaction and a webcam to communicate with doctors. The chair like the cleaning robots is a prototype. The chair can be used for a variety of applications such as educational or in shopping centers. Sharp also shows a tablet device connect to a TV and device for inserting you arm into.
Sharp Cleaning Robot
Sharp’s cleaning Robot is designed to replace the function of a vacuum. The robot itself has has its own tablet running Android. The battery can go for up to 2 hours. The robots themselves remain prototypes.
Sharp IGZO ramping up mass production
Sharp shows the latest range of LCD IGZO screens, showing 4K at 15.6″ coming in laptops later this year, 32″ IGZO 4K, and Sharp is right now selling a range of Smartphone and Tablet sized IGZO displays in Japan, why they aren’t yet shipping IGZO much outside of Japan yet, I am not sure. IGZO allows to refresh the screen as slow as 1Hz, saving drastic amounts of power on the screen refresh. Sharp also shows their new MEMS screen demos, made in collaboration with Qualcomm, perhaps Texas Instruments has been showing similar MEMS solutions like this for something like 10 years though (if implemented in displays yet or not I don’t know).
Techmeme BS Stories 28.09.13
Unprepared opinions on the BS Stories of September 28th 2013 on http://www.techmeme.com/130928/h1400 filmed in Japan on tour-boat going through caves at Dogashima on Izu peninsula and filmed walking in the Matsuzaki village.
Unuiga Product Portfolio Planning Presentation
The name Unuiga means great harmony. The presenter shows Unuiga’s future product road map and shows the potential markets for his different products as well as the value of Unuiga products to Unuiga partners. The presenter shows all the different use cases for Unuiga products. The presenter explains how everything became digital and how everything is becoming smart. Unuiga focuses on smart TV boxes and HDMI sticks. Unuiga also produces products for telecoms as well. Unuiga produces platforms based on Rockchip and Armlogic technology and possibly Samsung or MTK. Unuiga products can also work with other protocols like airplay, miracast, or DLNA. Towards the end the presenter shows a remote control with a keyboard.
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