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We Pick the Best New Gadgets From Japan

by Tom Samiljan on October 2, 2007 at 08:01 AM



The annual Japanese consumer electronics show (also known as CEATEC) in Tokyo is usually a good place to see some of the cutting-edge technologies that might make their way to the U.S. a few years from now. It's also a good place to see esoteric, only-in-Japan type stuff that never makes it across the pond. It's a gee-whiz-gadget-lover's paradise, and Switched was lucky enough to be asked to help pick the five most innovative and likely-to-succeed products at the show. We're part of a panel that includes tech writers from Popular Science, CNET and the Envisioneering Group. The four-person panel will present their decisions at the end of the show at a quasi-awards ceremony, as well as participate in a panel at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.

At any rate, we just wanted to give you the heads up, because it's likely you'll be seeing a few posts about innovative, gee-whiz products from Japan over the next couple of days. For even more on the latest gadgets from Japan, check out the CEATEC coverage at Engadget, which also has a couple of writers here at the show.

BTW, the above picture is of an attendant holding a 50GB Blu-ray disc in one hand, and a traditional DVD-RAM disc in the other. This show may have grown in size since the last time we were here, but the booth babes look the same -- a campy cross between swinging-London '60s era hipsters and/or Pizzicato Five, and flight-attendants that might look at home on a Virgin Galactic flight, when and if those ever happen. Yes, we're gadget dorks!

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Tags: CEATEC, Conventions, New Products, NewProducts

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