Japan's coolest tech
The annual trade show known as Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (CEATEC), under way here this week, is the Japanese equivalent of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), except about two years more advanced. We've come here, along with some 200,000 gadget-happy Japanese consumers, to see what American consumers might expect to see at home in 2008.
There are robots that ride bicycles, penguin-bots that sit on a car's dashboard to alert the driver to road hazards and red lights, and handheld spoken-word language translators that translate your English into Japanese and back, and all sorts of odd and inscrutable gizmoids that may not survive the fickle Japanese market long enough to make it to the States.
