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• We're at CEATEC in Tokyo

  Published: October 1, 2007, 11:46 pm

  Tags: Ceatec

  on in Tokyo these days, and CEATEC's latest up. We're out at the show today, and already we can tell that ultra-thin TVs are the new hotness in Japan this year. Don't wander far, coverage is coming right up! Permalink Email this CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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• Toshiba demonstrates hand motion controls at CEATEC

  Published: October 2, 2007, 6:56 pm

  Tags: Ceatec, Hand Motions, Handmotions, Qosmio, Spursengine, Toshiba

  is busy wowing onlookers at CEATEC with new applications that run on the firm's SpursEngine chip, including one that enables couch potatoes to "control a DVD player with hand motions." The chip is reportedly able to "process motion detected by a camera and turn it into commands," and the camera can "recognize hand motions from 10 feet away."

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• Hitachi's 100GB Blu-ray disc drive

  Published: October 3, 2007, 4:35 am

  Tags: 100gb, 200gb, 4 Layer, 8 Layer, Blu Ray, Ceatec, Hitachi, Prototype

  Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment, Storage Sure, it's just a prototype for now, but we can't help but feel a bit smitten with any drive capable of playing 100GB of data off a single 4-layer optical disc. The BD camp was also touting 200GB, 8-layer discs as they have since 2004 (at least) while showing off the components that will usher in 8x

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• Toshiba crams a fuel cell into PMP concept

  Published: October 3, 2007, 11:01 am

  Tags: 1seg, Ceatec, Fuel Cell, Fuelcell, Pmp, Toshiba

  off other fuel cell items at CEATEC to bolster its cred, including a prototype laptop -- which you can sign us up for right here and now. Read Permalink Email this CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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• Prototype mobile showcases e-ink keypad

  Published: October 3, 2007, 5:51 pm

  Tags: Ceatec, Cellphone, Concept, E Ink, Eink, Japan, Keypad, Phone, Prototype

  2006. On display at Japan's CEATEC show this week is a prototype clamshell that flips the concept on its head, moving the e-ink down below. The benefits are pretty obvious -- different keypad configurations can be shown in different phone modes, a tactic that's been explored before -- but unlike phones that use OLED or LCD displays, e-ink only

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• CEATEC shows off mobile phone with e-ink keypad

  Published: October 3, 2007, 8:19 pm

  Tags: Technologies, Announcements, Ceatec, E Ink, Eink

  to market, and seeing as how CEATEC already has a prototype out there, we’d say it’s no too unlikely. [Via: Ubergizmo] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Off Topic: Bluetooth eInk concept"Cells" mobile phone concept redefines keypad designNokia Twist Keypad Patent SurfacesS60 Annoyance: Hit 2 twice, see it onceU-Turn concept

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• DIY wooden keyboard kit brings out the carpenter in you

  Published: October 3, 2007, 9:54 pm

  Tags: Ceatec, Diy, Hacoa, Keyboard, Marubeni Infotec, Marubeniinfotec, Wood, Wooden, Wooden Keyboard, Woodenkeyboard

  Filed under: Peripherals We caught a glimpse of Marubeni Infotec's wooden input peripherals earlier this year at Computex, and now the makers of the Hacoa brand are reportedly readying a DIY kit that will enable users to actually assemble one of their own. Apparently, the company is downright tired of working long hours just to crank out a

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• Toshiba showcases trio of HDD / HD DVD recorders

  Published: October 4, 2007, 3:09 pm

  Tags: 1080p, 1080p24, 24p, Ceatec, Hd Dvd, Hd Dvd Recorder, Hddvd, Hddvdrecorder, Rd A101, Rd A201, Rd X7, Toshiba

  newest Blu-ray recorders at CEATEC, we're not too shocked to hear that Toshiba was touting a trio of its own for the HD DVD camp. All three units sport the ability to "transcode in real-time an off-the-air MPEG2 high-definition signal into the more efficient MPEG4 AVC compression system," and while we're not sure how capacious they'll be, it was

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

  Published: October 4, 2007, 8:00 pm

  Tags: Ceatec, Clips, Free Viewpoint, Japan, Video

  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,

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• CEATEC: 1mm Thick Flexible Plasma Display Debuts at CEATEC

  Published: October 4, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Ceatec, Displays, Home Entertainment, Japan, Plasma, Prototype, Shinoda, Tvs

  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

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

  Published: October 4, 2007, 8:00 pm

  Tags: Entertainment, Ceatec, Clips, Free Viewpoint, Video

  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,

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• Rohm's miniscule OLED shown at CEATEC

  Published: October 5, 2007, 2:01 am

  Tags: Ceatec, Oled, Prototype, Rohm, Viewfinder

  and the firm chose CEATEC as the venue to demonstrate its long-awaited full-color OLED that's "smaller than a fingernail." According to a company spokesperson, the 320 x 240 resolution display measures around four- by three-millimeters, is "embedded in a prototype chip and is designed for use in a video-camera viewfinder." Notably, the

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• Accessories: Pioneer SE-CLX9 Are Batman's Earphones of Choice

  Published: October 5, 2007, 8:40 am

  Tags: Accessories, Ceatec, Ceatec07, Earbuds, Earphones, Headphones, Pioneer, Se Clx9

  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

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

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: 120hz, 180hz, Ceatec, Ceatec07, Home Entertainment, Jvc, Lcds, Motion Blur, Tvs

  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]

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

  Published: October 5, 2007, 10:07 am

  Tags: Ceatec, Ceatec07, Cellphones, Docomo, E Ink, E Paper, Ntt Docomo, Sipix

  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. E-paper works slightly differently than Sony Reader's e-ink, which has revolving balls that are white on one side and black

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