Best of CEATEC 2010: 9 Amazing Innovations (PHOTOS)

The Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (or CEATEC) is Japan's massive annual trade fair, showcasing the leading innovations in consumer electronics and smart tech.

This year, CEATEC took place on Octobr 5 through October 10 and featured cutting-edge concepts like a dual-screen mobile phone, see-through OLED display panels, electric car concepts, 3D cameras, augmented reality GPS devices, robots and more.

View our slideshow (below) to see some of the most exciting high tech products CEATEC 2010 had to offer. Vote for your favorites, then share your opinions in the comments section.

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TDK See-Through Organic EL Display Mobile Phone

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A model shows a see-through organic EL display mobile phone developed by Japan's TDK Corp.at the CEATEC Japan, Japan's biggest consumer electronics show, in Chiba near Tokyo, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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A model shows a see-through organic EL display mobile phone developed by Japan's TDK Corp.at the CEATEC Japan, Japan's biggest consumer electronics show, in Chiba near Tokyo, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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[gevan]

03:43 PM on 10/18/2010

If I'm suffering from dementia and a teddy bear starts making noises and waving its arms, I'm through the window whether it's open or closed.

[frankcaprafan]

12:08 PM on 10/18/2010

Bread and circus.

[xtiangodloki]

09:56 AM on 10/18/2010

I was at the Shanghai Expo and waited for about an hour to see the Japan pavilion (the average wait is around 5.5 hours). There are four things which caught my eye:

1) A violin playing robot. Yes the thing does play violin pretty well. It played a well known Chinese tune.

2) A prototype of Cannon's new camera which can automatically recognize something like 20 faces (I can only get 4 on my Nikon D90). The host held down a button and the camera automatically focused and took snapshots of all the faces.

3) Toyota's electronic scooter. It's kind of similar to the segway.

4) Some sort of motion detection OS for the TV. Think microsoft's kinetic but for controlling the TV. The host was able to use his hand gestures to open up photo books and switch channels.

[writersbloc]

09:28 PM on 10/17/2010

oh and that android's got man hands. Might wanna leave them in the dryer a little longer

[writersbloc]

09:27 PM on 10/17/2010

i hope some company develops that transparent monitor. I can think of several ways I'd make use of that.

[gevan]

03:45 PM on 10/18/2010

And make it flexible.

[Edward Standley]

07:58 PM on 10/16/2010

A lot of them seem pretty useless, but maybe certain aspects of these products may find a useful place in other products.

[Jennifer]

07:24 AM on 10/15/2010

The rest of the world is cleaning our clock.

[Max Headroom]

12:30 AM on 10/15/2010

"Fujitsu is using the bears as part of an experimental therapy program for patients suffering from dementia."

Seems to me; if I were a dementia patient, these bears would scare the hell out of me!

[Pucker]

03:48 PM on 10/14/2010

Japan has a clear advantage in uncannily scary robot people.

[amdezurik]

12:43 AM on 10/16/2010

no match for Cheney or Rove...

[DFL]

01:27 PM on 10/14/2010

Remember a few decades ago when everything seemed to say made in japan on it? and now it all says made in china, for me I try to help our country by practicing economic patriotism and buying american brands only.

[Max Headroom]

12:32 AM on 10/15/2010

What do you buy??? Certainly not anything really cool.

[M A Ross]

12:29 PM on 10/14/2010

That teddy bear reminded me of Mr. Stuffins!!
http://www.boom-studios.net/mr-stuffins-1b.html

~Watch out for military chips Fujitsu!!

[javajava]

11:52 AM on 10/14/2010

I reallyThe only thing of remote interest is the EL display. In a few years I could imagine then hanging on walls and graphic artists doing work especially for display with them.

[nhunter]

11:48 AM on 10/14/2010

Anyone who genuinely can't see the importance of the Murata Seiko-chan... well, just keep banging those rocks together, guys!

[Thomas Brown Woodwright]

11:33 AM on 10/14/2010

Wait... wait... these moving, reacting stuffed bears are for people with DEMENTIA?!!

What... to drive them from mild dementia into full-blown psychosis?

[davesf]

01:44 PM on 10/14/2010

I'd imagine to help them know that 'good' actions get nice consequences (happy looking bear) and bad ones get 'scared bear' or something like that. Though I'm not sure that, with dementia, one would care.

[BinaryMan]

01:47 PM on 10/14/2010

My thoughts exactly! "No, grandpa. You're not going crazy. Now go talk to your teddy bear."

[krummlaw]

11:02 AM on 10/14/2010

Amazing? They're mostly toys and oddities for goodness' sake! A singing robot? Duhhh....I use a radio

[SimonFromSydney]

06:22 PM on 10/14/2010

its actually to show what we're currently capable of and the advances in technology, robots reacting to movement, robots with emotions, robots that can balance (major breakthrough btw) transparent screen (as shown in sci-fi shows), autonomous cars, soon we wont need to drive, no accidents, people can continue to get lazier :) slowly the world is gonna become like AI (the movie) although studies have shown we shouldnt make robots in our image as 2 things, they will try to become like us and we can differentiate them and people get freaked by an artificial human... and we should establish rights for robots so we dont have a rebellion down the track which wipes us all out.

[jimtpat]

11:33 AM on 10/15/2010

Gee, a singing robot that can carry a tune. How about one that can carry out the garbage? For that matter, why don't they make one that can go to work for me, pay itself off, and make enough left over to support me? I could start pyramiding them and become a millionaire.
Then again, the millionaires would just buy them all up and put all us schmucks out of work.