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The camera won’t fit in your pocket nor would it shoot anything faster than a sloth without blurring but for those pixel-loving camera enthusiasts out there, building your own a super-megapixel camera is relatively cheaper than splurging on a brand-new Sony A-900.
The scanner camera using parts from an Epson flatbed scanner and a Canon manual-focus [...]

Although not strictly robots, Nabaztag and Chumby are two of the most popular “smart objects”, so called because of their ability to connect to the Internet and interact with various Internet applications (to read news headlines, weather forecasts or email for example).
Nabaztag is a bunny-shaped (”nabaztag” is Armenian for “rabbit” I read) Wi-Fi enabled France-born [...]

Here are some more photos from the recently popular CEATEC Japan.
Possibly the cutest girl in CEATEC, showing cool stuff from Panasonic.

The giant model RX-78-2 Gundam, front and back. From the Niigata booth, of all places.

Of course, when Gundam is near, the Zaku has to be around.

Robots from Business Design Laboratories, the Mechadroid Type C3 (top) [...]

In one of the medium-sized booths in CEATEC, I found this lovable mechanical wonder. Pleo is a little dinosaur that can move and interact with his surroundings through an extensive network of sensors around his body.
Inside Pleo’s colorful coat is a dense connection of sensors, speakers, microphones and camera, which aid in giving this dino-robot [...]

One of the reasons I went to CEATEC was to see Seikochan, a cute little robot that can ride a unicycle, bettering her cousin Seisakukun (aka Murataboy) who could ride the bicycle. I almost didn’t get to see her. Such was the popularity of Seikochan that I had to wait until the last performance just [...]

I didn’t expect Sony to have a space for their digital cameras in CEATEC so I was quite surprised to see a sizable booth for their Cybershots and Alpha cameras, with two new lenses.
Sony’s booth with a prominent Alpha logo.

Sony’ cute model.

New lenses for Alpha dSLRs: Sony’s 70-400 and Carl Zeiss’ 16-35.

Sony’s new lenses, a [...]

CEATEC Japan, one of the premier exhibitions of cutting-edge technologies and gadgets, will start in a few hours. I think I’ll go and take a look. Try out some cool stuff, take lots of pictures and say hello to Seikochan, the new unicycle-riding robot from Murata. This should be fun.