At the Rohm booth there was a remote controlled 31gram bird flapping around, here’s an interview with the creator.
Category: CEATEC
Makuake crowd funded the Sony FES E Ink watch
Posted by – February 19, 2016
Makuake is the Japanese crowd funding website similar to Kickstarter, they have shipped the FES E Ink watch designed by a Sony department.
8K 55″ TV by Astrodesign, 8K for TV and Cameras
Posted by – December 23, 2015
Astrodesign 8K and 4K recording and playback devices are used by the TV manufacturer and Camera manufacturer industry of Japan to prototype and develop 4K and 8K technology. Astrodesign also develops upscaling solutions enabling HD video to be upscaled to 4k.
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BOE shows 110″ world’s largest 8K display, 5.5″ world’s smallest 4K for Smartphones and even 10K!
Posted by – October 15, 2015
BOE is one of the largest LCD manufacturers in the world, they show the world’s largest 8K display at 110″, and they also show the world’s smallest 4K display at 5.5″ and 6.8″ for Smartphones and Phablets to come out, they also show a beautiful 4K display at 10.1″ and their transparent display for fridge concept. BOE also is the first to show a 10K display, shown here horizhontally and vertically, it’s like an 8K display but with a bit wider aspect ratio to add 2K more pixels on the side. Is it possible yet to get a 4K display at 65″ for sub-$1000? Maybe!
Sharp Free Form Displays, circular Smartphone, fancy car dashboards and no-bezel digital signage
Posted by – October 15, 2015
Sharp LCD IGZO cut into all kinds of shapes, and every pixel seems to work. They suggest an an all-round shaped Smartphone will be possible next year, in-car dashboards also with circular and curved designs, space for buttons, all using Sharp’s IGZO technology, could also be round displays for Nest type of smart thermometers, on Hi-Fi systems, all runs Android, customized for all these special LCD shapes!
E ink round Flexible Smartwatch display, dual screen, eBadge
Posted by – October 15, 2015
Category: Smartphones, E-readers, Displays, Smartwatch, Exclusive videos, MediaTek, CEATEC, E Ink, Android
E Ink shows their latest displays for Smartwatches, Smartphones and more. Here are some of the solutions that they show in this video:
1. UHF Tag with Information display (Reference product from Hitachi Maxell)
2. 1.54” 200×200 EPD evaluation kit
3. 5.83” Spectra B/W/Yellow EPD evaluation kit
4. 5.83” Spectra B/W/Red EPD evaluation kit
5. 1.43” E Ink Mobius EPD
6. 1.1” E Ink Mobius round EPD
7. 4.7” EPD dual screen solution
8. 2.9” NFC eBadge solution – Battery less
9. Visionect – Joan 6” Conference Room Assistant (Reference product from Visionect)
10. 31.2” Monochrome Signage
11. 31.2” Color Signage
12. 13.3” Color Signage
Rotacaster wheels are 360-degree multi-directional for smooth moving Robotics
Posted by – October 13, 2015
Australian company Rotacaster shows their 360-degree movement and multi-directional wheel for smooth moving Robotics, for robots on wheels that can turn and follow smoothly.
Omron Ping Pong Robot wins against me!
Posted by – October 12, 2015
I loose against the Omron pong pong robot. They are tuning and improving it, while claiming that this is to show Robots collaboration with humans, they focus on trying to see all slices and lifts and to beat real champions next. Omron also shows some of their other smart sensors, mechanics, for wearables, smart home, self-driving cars and more.
Sharp Robohon Robot Smartphone!
Posted by – October 12, 2015
Sharp shows Robohon, a Robot Smartphone and perhaps your new friend. Put your LTE SIM card in this small humanoid robot and it walks and dances around and talks to you based on cloud language conversation learning, and you put it up to your face when you make a phone call. This is really happening.
Murata Cheerleader Robots on inverted pendulum showcase sensors
Posted by – October 11, 2014
Self-balancing on a ball by inverted pendulum, they dance synchronized, using sensors, cameras and perfect precision in the remote coordination, they demonstrate some of Murata’s sensor components and innovation ability. You can watch the rest of the video to see some of Murata’s sensors, energy harvesting demonstrations and more.
Skeletonics Exarobot at CEATEC 2014
Posted by – October 10, 2014
You stand in the middle of the Exarobot and it immitates your moves, next function is walking, running and jumping extra high.
Epson E Ink Watch “Smart Canvas”
Posted by – October 10, 2014
Available on Epson’s Japanese website for about $180 each, these are Epson’s E Ink based Watches, with Seiko movements inside, the watches change the graphic every hour and every day, for a secret amount of time. Potentially for years you can wear this watch and see a new cartoon charachter situation every hour, fans check the watch often to see each new situation with the Moomin, with Wow designs or with Yamaga FC, Epson’s home town Football team.
Caiba.net Telepresence Robot in Oculus Rift
Posted by – October 10, 2014
Using Arduino, a small Windows PC, the user wears the Oculus Rift to see from both eyes of the telepresence robot, motors, battery life is about 3 hours, you see what it sees and it moves its head as you move your head and you move it around using a gamepad. The price may be about $500 (not sure if with or without the oculus rift type remote vision head-mounted display device)
Moff band, wearable smart toy
Posted by – October 10, 2014
Slap it onto your wrist, and your movements turn into sounds through bluetooth to your smartphone/tablet. Successful on Kickstarter, it has over 30 sounds on the app thus far, you can play air drums, you can sword fight, you can shoot, you can throw ninja weapons or make some magic in the air.
Udar Electronic Instrument
Posted by – October 10, 2014
The Udar Instrument is an invention by Michinobu UDA, the instrument has 400 sensors in a spiral providing several octaves of notes per hand.
Honda Uni-Cub Monowheel latest generation
Posted by – October 10, 2014
You just sit and lean in the direction that you would like to go. The newest version is more stable, supports heavier people, smaller and taller people. Honda is now selling their Uni-Cub to businesses in Japan that use it for futuristic guided tours, the commercial release of this monowheel mono transporter is for later.
Ping Pong Robot at Omron Automation Lab
Posted by – October 10, 2014
Is this seriously cool or what? You can play ping pong against this robot, with it’s dual vision systems, anticipation algorithms, self balancing algorithms, it’s able to play back the ping pong ball to you no matter where you play it on the table. Perhaps with training, with some tuning of the anticipation of effects slicing and lifting in the ball, soon enough this robot may be able to beat even the best ping pong players in the world?
Read more: http://www.omron.com/media/press/2014/10/c1002.html
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Sharp AQUOS Crystal X, smallest bezel 5.5″ FHD with Snapdragon 801
Posted by – October 9, 2014
A really impressive small bezel, makes this 5.5″ phone fit within about the same size as a regular 5″ phone’s dimensions, using its S-CG Silicon based LCD at 1080p, it uses a prism lens type of glass that refracts the display towards the edge of the device.
Toshiba Booth Tour at CEATEC 2014
Posted by – October 9, 2014
Crazy humanoid robot, Toshiba Smart Glass, Smart Plants (grown in lab), Smart Washing Machine, Smart Fridge, Toshiba Ene-Farm Fuel Cell, 4K TVs, Smart Home solutions, NFC, Video-conferencing Android app for old people, Smart band and more.
Panasonic ProXStream EX decodes HEVC 60p4K at 40mbitps
Posted by – October 9, 2014
Panasonic LSI shows their dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 based Set-top-box and in-TV solution decoding HEVC 4K at 60fps at 40mbitps, integating also advanced rendering algorithms for colors, shapes, vectors and more. You can watch my previous Panasonic ProXStream video here: http://138.2.152.197/2014/04/19/panasonic-ph1-pro4-arm-cortex-a9-with-proxstream1-4k-decoder-and-transcoder/
