Bouncing Red Ball

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.

If you liked Asimo, you’ll love Plen, the skating robot. You can have this diminutive robot for ¥250,000 excluding tax. From the website (translated from Japanese):
CREATE: After you finish putting together the kit, you can freely create motions for your Plen with the supplied software. No special tools are necessary; you can assemble the kit [...]