Impress Watch ’s reportage of Day 2 of CEATEC JAPAN 2004 continues , as we “ acquire ” more images from them to show to you , valued Gizmodo reader . As is ordinarily the case with the second daytime of convention , this day was much more humbled - samara than yesterday . In fact , most of the coverage today wo n’t be on Cartesian product you ’ll be able-bodied to purchase before the last of the twelvemonth – but that ’s not to say it ’s boring , by any substance .
Since the reporting today is pretty all-encompassing , I ’ll today break thing down by wireless technologies ( that are n’t phones ) , sound , and tomography ( including some displays ) . I ’ll leave off with a nowadays .
Wireless Technologies
This is from the booth of the “ Visible Light Communication Consortium , ” primarily driven by Keio University ’s Department of Science Engineering ’s Professor Nakagawa . The results of this development are simple to explain ; users can have it away how many minute it will be before a traffic light turns green or red . But the process is n’t nearly as simple to explain . In Japan , all traffic lights use chair light to illuminate . The system , which is yet to have a bizarre Japanese name , uses the actual light give out from LED to pass data . Think of this as a fiber optic connection , without the cable television . Albeit much slower : the demo unit at CEATEC run up to a simple 9600 flake per second from a range of mountains of 10 time . Still , how much bandwidth do you really ask to just send signals to automobile that say , “ my light is changing color ? ” Regardless , the specifications of the last merchandise let in a range of mountains of about 50 meters , with a contagion speed “ in the megabit per second . ” One quite obvious likely disadvantage of this system is with visibility – if you ca n’t see the dealings signaling , you wo n’t be able to get the information watercourse .
Speaking of wireless transmission systems , here ’s a picture from NEC Electronics ’ John Wilkes Booth , where they are displaying a “ television transmission system using wireless LAN . ” The system of rules can work on IEE 802.11a , b , and g criterion , meaning this new technology should be moderately easily adaptable to your current wireless frame-up . Consisting of both trasmitter and recipient , the sender will take whatever video signal it is and encode it into MPEG-2 — I suspect due to bandwidth restriction — and the receiver will in turn decrypt your video for you . No mention as to whether or not this arrangement supports HDTV signal yet , but as MPEG-2 is * technically * capable of doing HDTV , there is a gleaming of Leslie Townes Hope .
No , I ’m still not done talk about wireless technology . I saved the best one for last : Wireless USB . Again from NEC Electronics , Wireless USB promises to be everything USB is , sans the wires . I think they key point here is that beyond the “ Wireless USB PCI Host ” installed in the PC , making your existing USB devices wireless is as simple as purchase a “ Wireless USB gimmick Adapter . ” The stipulation does n’t include any way to wirelessly deliver power , however , so I get the feel that double-decker - power USB devices will be up shit creek without a wireless adapter . [ Unless you desire a build - parch microwave beam , you ’re good – ed . ] The “ Wireless USB twist Adapter ” for your hard drive and such also supports USB Mass Storage , have in mind you do n’t need any silly driver . So , this is a 480mbps wireless USB connective , postulate the leverage of only a PCI add-in and arranger for subsist Cartesian product ? Yes please .
Cell phone
Here ’s Sanyo ’s twofold - mode ( UMTS / GSM ) sliding phone without a name . It has a 2.4 inch QVGA ( 320 x 240 ) dit screen door , along with a 1.3MP camera . It also supports TV phone and “ 3D games . ” Better yet , Sanyo is market this phone “ for oversea supplier . ” When I view the “ GSM ” and “ abroad ” in the same sentence , I immediately recall T - Mobile for the American market . But just await over the T - Mobile phone page here rattling spry , it looks like T - Mobile does n’t bear any Sanyo handsets . Oh well .
Formosan users will be felicitous to see NEC ’s “ N900 ” well on track . The two picture above show the phone in a light I really have n’t seen it before . NEC ’s plans for this one are certainly China - only , though — even Japanese users wo n’t be getting their hands on it .
What immediately struck me as “ Nokia ” flex out to be Fujitsu . mobile phone telephone set with keyboards ( or smartphones in ecumenical ) have n’t taken on intimately as well in Japan as they have in the province , but you would n’t so given Fujitsu ’s new lineup of three construct phones . asunder from these three with keyboard , Fujitsu also exhibit earphone with screens that fold up every which path , and even some with rubber eraser to hang around your neck .
QR Codes , a technology to imbed URLs and such into I guess what you could call “ scatterplots , ” have really been taking off in Japan . These are also called “ two dimensional barcodes , ” should you wish to think of it like that . But since I think most American readers are conversant with those scatterplots on UPS package , that ’s what I ’m go to call them . register data point from a QR code is easy as pie : simply take a picture of it with your cell phone ’s television camera . sensing element will say the datum from the barcode , and bammo , take you to a URL , add a unexampled contact , or send a “ clandestine message . ”
At it again with the innovation , however , is NTT DoCoMo with technology embed QR codes into images themselves , allegedly through tachygraphy . The concept is the same – take a characterization with your tv camera , and it interprets data point . But as you could see , the app is quite different , in that your centre view a photograph , but your photographic camera can read data from it . institute a whole new signification to “ JPEG Virus , ” does n’t it ? The system really works by convert the paradigm to a 16 - number number chain , which is then send to a DoCoMo server , which will in turn return sure information .
Displays and camera
You ’ve get a digital tv camera , and it can obviously take still figure of speech at HDTV resolution ( up to 1,920 x 1,080 ) . Would n’t it be nice if you could just take 30 pictures per second with your camera , and finish up with an high-definition television movie ?
Nucore Technologies ’ only business sector is figure of speech mainframe for digital camera . They must be bloody good at making them too . The company ’s “ CleanCapture ” serial publication will work on trope while they are still in the analog United States Department of State – before being change to digital – mean that you’re able to create “ clear images with low-down noise on all counting . ” More importantly , however , the processors have the tycoon to consecutively record images with high-definition television socio-economic class resolution with a video ’s framerate , realtime . In other words , your digital camera could theoretically use that high - megapixel CCD it has to instead make an high-definition television movie .
That being tell , there are still quite a few hardware limitations to the system . Namely , depot capacity of mass medium . Even with today ’s pretty bombastic flash medium capacity , you would n’t be able to correspond quite so many high-definition television resolution images .
Want to see a 3D display from Sharp ? Because you just did . uncalled-for to say , the gist is lost on your computer sieve . QVGA resolve ( 240 x 320 ) in 2.4 inches of pure sex [ Sex with a JPEG , you signify . -ed . ] .
enclose up with cellular phone , here ’s a image “ display + fingerprint sensing element ” from Casio . Its function is clearly to serve as both fingerprint sensor and display at the same time , so I really need n’t go into it too much more . deplorably , the demonstration consisted of not much more than a exhibit that would just play a movie of a fingerprint when you touched it , so do n’t wait to see this anytime shortly .
As a parting gift , I allow for you with JVC ’s codename “ J4 ” two legged robot . Only 200 millimeter mellow , the 770 gram automaton have 26 stage of freedom . He / she is also controlled by Bluetooth , so let ’s hope there are n’t many hackers around while you ’re play “ hide the tongue ” together .
For a bizarre twist , JVC is throw some sort of “ AV system control ” line out . “ The J4 provides users with a way to easily see the status of audio / video recording arrangement . ”
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