Thank Japan for sushi, Kobe beef, karaoke and the goods from the annual CEATEC showcase.
Posted 10.07.2009 at 3:56 pm
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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.
Most of the more drool-worthy goodies are, of course, only in the prototype or demo stages right now. (Just like IFA before it, it's just a big ol' tease.) For now think of them as a far eastern crystal ball to what we can look forward to at CES come January when us Yanks get to have some fun.
From a Star Trek translator app to the thinnest laptop screen we've ever seen, here is the tech to watch coming out of CEATEC.
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Umm...What?
Dude, its bad enough they send us stuff like that one kid who THOUGHT he was getting a new nintendo ds lite, but opened it and found a box of rocks and a newspaper. And i wont even tell you what was in another box that some kid got.
But THIS?
All in all, sometimes, and i mean SOMETIMES, american built things, you just cant beat.
And im not trying to be bad mannered to the japanese, i just thing this is extremely strange.-DaSonicMan
ya i mean the only cool thing is the roll up lap top check out the video