According to their website: “CEATEC JAPAN is the Cutting-edge IT & Electronics Comprehensive Exhibition.”
As a comprehensive IT and electronics trade show where world-leading technologies, products and services are announced, CEATEC JAPAN is the focus of close attention by the industry and a truly wide range of users.

According to me, check out the singing robot!  (Just watch out for Typhoon No. 18!)

With the addition of Vocaloid software she sings!  Observe the animatronics, her facial expressions are pretty good, the random blinking action is very close to life! This is happening now in Japan at their electronics show called Ceatec:

http://www.ceatec.com/2009/en/index.html

More on the origin of the Vocaloid software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid#Kagamine_Rin_and_Len

It’s sends a chill up my spine – although as a child I always wanted my own robot, now I am “a’feared”.

More on Ceatec:  http://www.ceatec.com/2009/en/index.html

Sited from Crain’s New York, Small Business – October 06, 2009 2:23 PM

The city on Tuesday unveiled the NYC Big Apps Competition, a contest for software developers and members of the public to create Web or mobile applications using recently released city data. For the project, the Bloomberg administration partnered with 30-plus city agencies to release more than 170 data sets, including information on city landmarks, Census figures and restaurant inspection results. The goal: for developers to build applications that will make life a little bit easier for city residents, visitors and businesses.

Tuesday’s announcement comes less than a week after the mayor launched the Connected City Initiative, a broad series of programs geared at making the city more tech-friendly. Included in that initiative are plans to expand broadband access to low-income residents, grow the city’s 311 service and increase the use of electronic health records among New York City doctors.

What do you think?

In this episode I muse on the topic of the “mobile internet” and “net Neutrality spurred by a recent report; Time Warner Cable asked the FCC to lay off the Net Neutrality conversation, stating “Now is not the time to engage in a debate about the need for net neutrality obligations.” But if we don’t start out with equal and open access, how would we go backwards?

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Thoughts?