Gizmodo convey you of late , off - the - picture insurance coverage of basically everything you need to know about the first twenty-four hour period of the CEATEC JAPAN 2004 convention taking place in Tokyo ’s Makuhari Messe . This includes reporting of Japanese girls with obnoxiously orotund , scarlet , curly ‘ fros . Enough pictures stolen from Impress Watch to sink three ships after the jump . We are , after all , “ visual apprentice . ”
Instead of examine to make sense of this mess at the Messe by recrudesce things down into corporate booth story , I ’ll instead divide new mathematical product / technologies by their applicable market . These let in storage , audio / TV , communications , and ultimately one apprehension - all family to extend crossing over junk .
Storage
You in all probability ca n’t search for “ storage ” and “ Japan ” without amount up with something about either Blu - Ray or HD - DVD . And this have sense – the Japanese are intemperately pushing both formats , with Sony at the helm of Blu - Ray and Toshiba and NEC behind HD - DVD . As was expected , both format were promoted in full force .
Here ’s Sharp ’s Blu - Ray record-keeper , called the “ AQUOS High - Vision Recorder . ” Also on showing are Pioneer ’s and Mitsubishi ’s versions Blu - Ray recorders . From the HD - DVD camp , Sanyo had an HD DVD musician , while NEC demoed an international HD DVD / DVD drive for PCs . But Blu - Ray of course suffice right back with this Blu - Ray / DVD+-R / RW internal drive from Pioneer :
It ’s even got a Blu light , just in pillow slip you forget what the hell it is that you ’re burning .
We ’ve heard plenty about Toshiba ’s 0.85 column inch heavy drives , but gee whiz , I just ca n’t get over how small-scale they are . Here ’s another picture of them to conclude reporting of storage gadget .
Audio / Video & Displays
The focussing of Ceatec Japan has generally been audio / telecasting product . This year was no exception . Up first is the world ’s largest liquid crystal display television at 65 inches , from Sharp :
Where ’s the cleaning lady in that picture ? It ’s uncommon to see a big aphrodisiac Japan screen without a minuscule sexy Japanese woman . Oh well .
Here ’s another one we already covered – Casio ’s 2.2″ screen with VGA ( 640 x 480 ) resolution . If you ca n’t tell , that ’s Microsoft Excel being displayed there . I do n’t believe I ’ve ever seen Excel so “ small . ”
These are three demonstration whole of Sony ’s “ DLNA ” compatible portable medium players . I ’m go to be true with you ; I had n’t heard of the “ Digital Living connection Alliance ” before today , but seeing as how Sony , Matsushita ( Panasonic ) , Intel , and other makers are part of the alliance , I ’m starting to consider they ’re credible . fundamentally , the stage of the Alliance is to establish interoperability of client and server medium meshwork connecter . Meaning , your Sony media receiver can recreate content being streamed from a Panasonic media server .
Particularly , with this Sony meshing metier player above , you could obviously playact streaming content while around your business firm – but the message can also be downloaded onto the internal hard drive for take with you on the go . Not stopping there , this portable equipment is planned to also operate as a host , so you may wirelessly stream message from it to whatever else it is you want to stream to . I ’m conceive devices like this are the next dance step for the still - newborn portable media players such as those offered by iRiver . Here ’s a Kenwood stereo system , which is also “ DLNA compatible : ”
I was n’t sure if I should put this with A / quintuplet or communication . From the photograph , you may tell three things : it ’s a portable sound recording player , is somehow compatible with Bluetooth , and is made by Aiwa ( Sony ’s 2d - level trade name ) . Apparently the gimmick here is that the player doubles as a Bluetooth headset for phones compatible with the engineering science .
Ever marvel what would happen to your meshing camera if your PC suddenly give up working ? I have n’t because I do n’t have any . If you have such an advanced livelihood situation that you practice web webcams for security system purposes , you ’ll in all probability excavate Panasonic ’s “ Monitoring TV Adapter . ” The concept is simple – plug away in up to four connection television camera , link it to your telly , and you ’re done . No motive to concern about personal computer configurations or any of that . Moreover , it turn back a SecureDigital slot to save image , and also acts as a normal connection hub . I ’d surely hope so given the “ $ 500 – $ 1000 ” count on cost .
Communications
To start the communication category , here ’s a shot of DoCoMo ’s “ Phone to PC ” TV phone applied science . If you have n’t been keep up with your Japanese cellular phone news , NTT DoCoMo ( the biggest cellular provider in Japan ) introduce “ TV telephone ” capabilities to their 3 G FOMA connection last year . Until now , the organisation has been “ phone to phone ” only , meaning that both parties require FOMA - compatible handsets to be able-bodied to enter in video recording telephone calls . But with NTT ’s new engineering science here , hopefully the less - than - successful TV phone service should get a square boot in the American Samoa .
Speaking of NTT , you may also think back that “ videoconferencing IP sound ” from a duad months ago . Here ’s another guess of it , if you ’ve forgotten .
It looks like it could up and fly away , but that ’s a 3 gramme phone concept model from Sanyo . It feature a double - hinge design , as well as 3D display . Though the main highlight here is evidently the bizarro design , another feature is wireless LAN support . That about wrapper it up for reportage of communications devices , but I ’ve saved the unspoiled for last : random shit ?
Random Bullshit
“ How could he call fuel cells fake ? ” Well , only because I really do n’t make love how to categorise them . There has been no shortage of coverage of fuel cellphone engineering at this year ’s exhibition . Including the above oblation from Hitachi , Toshiba also had their small - sized fuel cell on presentation . gratefully Mr. Yasuhiro Sakuma of ASCII24 mean fast and put up his business carte du jour for sizing comparing :
I ’m having a jolly hard time screen out exactly what the “ CARWINGS ” system , offer by NTT DoCoMO and Nissan , is . From what I can secern , it is a system to colligate cellular headphone and car navigation organisation , to easily exchange data between the two machine . For exemplar , you may send local data to your phone ground on GPS information downloaded by your car ’s piloting system . As the entire frame-up sustain Bluetooth , you ’ll also find “ answer ” and “ pay heed up ” buttons on the steerage rack , so you do n’t take to scramble for your phone if you find a call . This is also integrated with your car ’s verbaliser , so you could hear your protagonist talk in SURROUND SOUND . ultimately , for those of you without Bluetooth phones , CARWINGS is also compatible with undecomposed honest-to-god cable - based connection . Here ’s a picture of a CARWINGS cable car :
To conclude Gizmodo ’s coverage of Day One of CEATEC , I leave behind you with this USB random identification number author for physical science applications , on display by FDK Corporation :
Read – CEATEC JAPAN 2004 Link List[Impress Watch ]
CAETEC 2004 C+A ( French)[SorobanGeeks ]
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