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Watch Fujitsu’s Dual Touchscreen Transformer Phone In Action

5:49AM October 7, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Over at CEATEC, Fujitsu’s showing off a snazzy dual touchscreen smartphone with a hinge that allows them to stack vertically or horizontally. And the most exciting part? They’ve let UI wizards The Astonishing Tribe loose to make the software. Watch. More »


Mobile

Panasonic’s 13MP Lumix Phone Looks Crappy

6:20PM October 5, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

They promised more info for this week, and they gave us new info. Unfortunately… it’s not quite shaping up to what we were hoping for. Budget Sony Ericsson with 13MP camera, anyone? More »


Computing

Dual Screen Netbook Concept Actually Looks Practical

12:20AM October 30, 2009 | Danny Allen

I was pretty skeptical about Kohjinsha’s dual 10.1-incher when I first wrote about it, but it actually looks quite practical in this video. The second display simply slides out behind the first, like on GScreen’s Spacebook and Lenovo’s W700. More »


Yamaha Quietly Shows Off 1mm-Thick Cloth Speaker

3:30AM October 11, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Yamaha’s booth at CEATEC featured a few cloth posters with mundane advertisements on them that seem to lack any attention-grabbing oomph — until you step directly in front of them and realise that they’re incredibly thin directional speakers. Whoa! More »


Mobile

Fujitsu’s Seemingly Nonsensical Concept Phone Roundup

12:00PM October 10, 2009 | Jason Chen

These are Fujitsu’s concept phones they showed off at CEATEC, one of which we covered already. Akihabara News covered a few of them, but these three are our favourites. More »


Mitsubishi’s Modular OLED Screen Could Cover Entire Buildings

3:45AM October 9, 2009 | Danny Allen

Remember the advertising-laden skyscrapers from Blade Runner? Mitsubishi’s now got the tech to do it: its Diamond Vision screen uses individual 4-inch square OLED panels that can scale to an unlimited size. Check out the 155-incher on show at CEATEC. More »


Mobile

Toshiba’s Stylish Next-Gen Smartphones Could Arrive This Year

12:50AM October 9, 2009 | Danny Allen

Back in April, some pretty interesting renders of Toshiba’s upcoming mobile product line leaked out, and now seemingly near production-ready versions of the slick-looking WinMo 6.5 devices are on show at CEATEC (Japan’s version of CES). Take a look. More »


Mobile

Fujitsu F-Circle Rotary Smartphone Comes From Past’s Future

11:50PM October 8, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

Fujitsu says that their F-Circle concept—designed by Yuji Ito and shown at CEATEC in Japan—phone has a “timeless appearance”. Liars. I know your mobile phone comes straight from the 60s, and apparently it can detect metal too. [Pink Tentacle]


Gadgets

Toshiba’s Latest Fuel Cell Prototype Gadgets Charge In Seconds

11:10PM October 8, 2009 | Danny Allen

At Japan’s CEATEC show, Toshiba and KDDI are demonstrating a modified Toshiba T002 phone that’s powered by a direct-methanol fuel cell (DMFC) and Li-Ion battery. More advanced than previous prototypes, it runs for 320 hours on a squirt of methanol. More »


Gadgets

What Is This Guy Doing?

11:40AM October 8, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

What is Mr. Roboto doing here? Perhaps checking some CEATEC booth girl’s ass? Staring at the suspicious character crawling towards him off camera, the one dressed as a giant pink chicken? No, the answer is much cooler than all that. More »