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Gallery: Far-Out New Tech from Japan

Thank Japan for sushi, Kobe beef, karaoke and the goods from the annual CEATEC showcase.

By Corinne Iozzio Posted 10.07.2009 at 3:56 pm 2 Comments

It's not all about singing robots in Tokyo this year. The annual CEATEC tech expo is loaded with the makings of your gadget-geek future.

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Gadgets

Orkin Design and Sony Show Off Roll-Up Laptop Concepts

By Jeremy Hsu Posted 10.07.2009 at 12:32 pm 21 Comments

Laptops keep getting thinner and lighter, but some concept laptops take portable to a new level. Orkin Design's Rolltop consists of an OLED display that can start as a rolled-up mat and deploy as a multi-touch 17-inch laptop. My beastly HP laptop just shed a tear of envy.

The Orkin laptop can also transform into a tablet PC operable with a stylus, or become a standup flat screen display. A power adapter and other features fit with the carrying canister that comes with a convenient holding strap.

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Technology

In The Future, All Our Pop Idols Will Be Machines

By Paul Adams Posted 10.07.2009 at 10:59 am 7 Comments

Performing live at CEATEC, everyone's favorite catwalk model bot has been loaded with Vocaloid software (Rin), enabling her to croon sweet pop songs.

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CEATEC 2007 Photo Roundup

By popsci Posted 10.08.2007 at 12:05 pm 0 Comments

CEATEC in Japan was bursting with techno gadgets. Some were full-fledged products with price tags, others simply way-out science experiments. Launch the gallery here for a quick roundup of things from both categories.

For our complete coverage of the show, click here. —Sean Captain

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Hands on with Casio's Crazy High-speed Camera

By Sean Captain Posted 10.04.2007 at 10:04 am 4 Comments

While in Tokyo for CEATEC, I made the pilgrimage to Casio headquarters and geeked out at their museum. I saw the world's first electronic calculator (about the size of a toaster oven) and also the first digital camera with—if you can believe it—an LCD screen on the back.

But my real purpose was to meet with the father of that old camera, Jin Nakayama, to see his latest offspring. It's so new, in fact, they haven’t chosen a name yet. But it’s the wildest camera I've ever seen. By mating a high-performance CMOS image sensor with a new, lightening-fast processor, the camera can shoot up to 60 (yes, 60) six-megapixel photos per second or—get this—300 video frames per second. That’s National Geographic-style slow-mo video from a consumer camera. Well, if Casio goes ahead and builds a consumer camera. For now, it’s just a science experiment. But the prototype I saw looks pretty darn close to a real product.

Enough talking. If a picture's worth a thousand words, this 300-picture-per-second clip of me drinking water is the Magna Carta.—Sean Captain