Enjoy big savings at the MSI-ECS Warehouse Sale on December 8-10, from 9am to 6pm. So if you’re looking to get yourselves (& your loved ones) premium tech stuff, get it from MSI-ECS! We promise big discounts and juicy bargains.

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TDK Audio Cassette Tape 90min 5 Pack Review

TDK seem to be to only manufacturer making cassettes these days, (unless you know different) fortunately, the offerings are not that bad. I use a Tascam pro machine and a Sony walkman pro and excellent results are obtained without Dolby NR
The bass is especially good and the overall sound is quite well balanced for a standard ferric tape. The shell is reasonably well made, so I have never had a jamming or runout problem with them.
It’s just as well these cassettes are quite reasonable as it seem they are the only choice. I have seen some TDK SA tapes around, but these are generally awful and hard to find at anything like a reasonable price.

So, if you have a half decent cassette player (or not) these are the tapes to go for and they are very reasonably priced.

Feature

• 5 Pack
• 90 Minute Cassette
• Audio Compact Cassette
• Capacity: Audio Compact Cassette

Overview
TDK Tape Cassette 90 Minutes Ref D90EB5 [Pack 5]

Dec 01, 2009 02:03:07

De acordo com Batman-on-film, em  janeiro a Warner  e o diretor  Christopher Nolan ( Batman Begins e Batman – O Cavaleiro das Trevas), se reunirão para começar a pensar no terceiro filme da franquia encabeçada pelo diretor britânico.

A informação foi publicada, no Brasil,  pelo Omelete que completa:

“O site diz ter recebido a informação de uma fonte confiável, mas sempre é bom desconfiar”.

Leia o especial: Batman

Essa fonte teria dito que a reunião não haverá um imediato anúncio oficial logo após a reunião. Uma das razões seria porque o novo filme de Nolan, A Origem (Inception), chega às telas em julho de 2010. As notícias sobre Batman 3 ainda devem ser escritas com o verbo no condicional até metade do ano.

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Adriana Chaves

I had a lot of ideas of what to do. But in the end I took the idea of a photo booth. So I grabbed people at a party and had them do whatever they wanted for 5 images.

To see the image BIG CLICK HERE or at the Link at the Bottom.

Looking at all the individual “photo chains” in a slide show is just silly so here is a link to this image in its largest size.  CLICKR HERE TO SEE IT BIG!

But if you want to see a slideshow of all the “chains” here it is: FLICKR SLIDESHOW

To preface this theological review of The Dark Knight, I think Christians tend to fall into opposite errors with respect to popular, secular culture. On the one hand, it is treated with paranoid suspicion or outright hostility by its detractors as a realm entirely controlled by Satan and his minions. On the other, it is wrongly treated as a suitable source for sermons and doctrine along with, or, in the worst cases, in lieu of, the Scriptures. I tend to take the middle road. Popular culture has its place, and its fruits can be enjoyed by Christians in their liberty with thanksgiving. Music, art, and storytelling in any medium can be entertaining, thought provoking, and even God-honoring. He created all things good. Beauty and truth can be creatively expressed even by those who are unregenerate. If one believes that God is sovereign, this should come as no surprise. Likewise, if enjoyment of such fair replaces our Christian duties of discipleship (Bible study, prayer, church attendance, good works, et al) they should be plucked out of our lives and cast from us as Christ commands. My goal with this review is to analyze some of the overarching themes (the nature of man, law, providence, morality, faith) raised in the film by looking at some of the crucial scenes. Caution: there are some spoilers.

I was reading an article where Christopher Nolan was describing his favorite scene in TDK: the interrogation scene between Batman and The Joker, hero vs. villain, good vs. evil. He said it was the hinge on which the whole movie turned. Or, to put it in terms the theologically Reformed can understand, it is the film’s doctrine of justification. In it, The Joker presents his own brand of chaotic nihilism. He spoke of the goodness (or lack thereof) of Gotham’s citizens,

“Their morals, their ‘code,’ it’s all a bad joke; dropped at the first sign of trouble. They’re only as good as the world allows them to be. When the chips are down, these, uh, ‘civilized people’: they’ll eat each other. You see, I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.”

When one grounds all hope and all authority in mankind, one must certainly reach The Joker’s bleak conclusions. If the law was conjured up within the mind of man, it is a bad joke. It is moral pretension. It has no ultimate power or intrinsic authority. However, the Scriptures declare that the moral law, the ultimate standard of goodness and purity, finds its origin in God. It is the product of the Ultimate Judge and is binding on all men. It is the bedrock for the laws of the state, itself instituted by God to bear the sword, to protect the innocent, and to punish the guilty. Civilization is a gift of God. It certainly is a means by which He restrains the evil of men.

Sadly, The Joker’s anthropology is more Biblical than that of many professing Christians. Man is NOT basically good. We are basically corrupt. Every aspect of our being is tainted and deformed by sin to one degree or another. This is often called total depravity, though a more apt term I’ve heard applied to it is radical corruption. We are not as evil as we could be, but there is not one aspect of our beings that is left unaffected by sin. Apart from God’s grace, we would indeed “eat each other.” So, too often, we see ourselves as “better” than the serial killers, the rapists, and the deviants of society. Horizontally, we may be better than The Jokers of the world. Vertically, however, we are all sinners deserving of God’s just condemnation. In comparison to God’s holy standard, we are all lawbreakers and criminals. We are the scum of the earth. That is why faith in Christ alone is so important. It is through faith in Christ, itself a gift from God, that Christ’s perfect righteousness is imputed to us. This allows us to stand before God blameless. For as Christ gives us His righteousness, so too did He take upon Himself our sin. He became sin and was crushed by God’s wrath that we might be saved from the Judgment. In terms of sin, we are all “monsters.” Despite this, God in His loving mercy still chose to save us.

The Joker continues to expound his twisted worldview in the hospital scene with Harvey Dent:

“I’m not a schemer. I like to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are…You were a schemer. You had plans, and look where that gotcha.”

A quick point, I know it wasn’t the script writer’s intention, but there is a droplet of truth here. We are all schemers. We are going to attend college here, we are going to do this, we are going to marry when we’re this age, have this many kids, live here, travel here, do this, do that, ad nauseam. God is the one who often shows “how pathetic our attempts to control things really are.” He alone is sovereign. While we should plan diligently, we must not do so assuming that we have the final say. God has measured our days. We shouldn’t delude ourselves into thinking that we can plan the time and the means by which we will come to God for our eternal destiny. The Scriptures declare that today is the day of salvation, now is the time to believe. Likewise Christ is the only way by which we may gain both acceptance by God and entrance into His heaven. Walking an aisle, signing a card, saying a prayer, getting baptized, taking communion, joining a church, singing a hymn, doing good deeds, and “living a good life” won’t save the first soul from hell. Only God-given faith in Christ can accomplish such a feat.

The Joker goes on:

“See, I’ve noticed something. Nobody panics when things go ‘according to plan,’ even if the plan is horrifying. If I told the press that tomorrow like a gangbanger would get shot, or a truck load of soldiers would be blown up, nobody panics, because it’s all ‘part of the plan.’ But if I say that one little old mayor will die, then everyone loses their minds! Introduce a little anarchy; upset the established order and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos.”

Hear we see the philosophical conclusion of an atheistic worldview, or at least a worldview with a non-Biblical god. The Bible declares that God is dread sovereign over the entire universe. He has the hairs on our heads numbered; he knows when a sparrow falls to the ground dead. We may see mayhem erupt in riots, wars, and other violence, but God remains in total control of every atom in Creation. Though God is not the author of sin and evil, He still may use these things to accomplish His purposes. We need look no further than the Cross for evidence of this. The Crucifixion of Jesus was the most evil act ever perpetrated by the hand of man. Pure innocence was executed. Jesus was murdered. By killing Jesus, His accusers and executioners committed cold-blooded murder in the first degree. However, out of this murderous act, God brought salvation. What men meant for evil, God meant for good.

However, while The Joker is the antagonist of the film, the film’s hero has a faulty worldview as well. So do the other ‘good’ characters. In her letter to Bruce, Rachel, lets him know that she has chosen to marry Harvey. She also says something worth examining:

“If you lose your faith in me, please, don’t lose your faith in people.”

Now, this seems like a kind letter that seeks to “let Bruce off easy,” but the final statement is truly foolish. We must not put ultimate faith in people, starting with ourselves. We are people of deceitful hearts and unclean lips. It is in Christ alone in whom we must place our faith if we hope to endure all trials and tribulations.

The end of the film has Batman delivering an interesting last line:

“Sometimes the truth isn’t good enough. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded. Sometimes people deserve more.”

Gordon and Batman had “bet it all” on Harvey Dent. The Joker told Batman that he had brought Gotham’s “White Knight” down to “our level.” If people were to know the crimes of Two-Face, then they would lose hope in what Gordon and Batman stood for, or so the protagonists assumed.

That is the overarching flaw of the film’s outlook on human existence. If man is the measure of all things; if God is not given his proper place, then The Joker will ultimately have the last laugh. If we put our faith in our government, our military, our wealth, our health, our family, our spouse, our children, our own moral performance, our heritage, or ourselves we will be eternally disillusioned. All these things, though good, cannot provide ultimate satisfaction or security. Only God can do that. Truth, Biblical Truth, is always good enough. People do not need to have their faith rewarded if that faith’s object is anything but the Living Triune God. Such faith should be torn down and exposed for what it is: a lie. The faith of Christians is the only faith that will bring reward. Not because of the faith itself but because of whom that faith is in: Jesus. We may not deserve Jesus, but He is the “something more” we all desperately need.

One scene from which I do draw inspiration in my Christian walk is the scene in the Bat Bunker before Bruce decides to turn himself in:

-Bruce: People are dying, Alfred. What would you have me do?

-Alfred: Endure, Master Wayne. Take it. They’ll hate you for it, but that’s the point of Batman. He can make the choice no one else will make, the right choice.

Many Christians, like me, who struggle with assurance and sin would benefit if we would take to heart the numerous Biblical passages that tell us to persevere in the faith. Knowing that our salvation is a free gift and that we are free from both the dominion and condemnation of sin, what will we now do? Turn ourselves back over to the world, the flesh, and the devil? God forbid! The world may hate us for it, but we must take it.

Let us press on to the goal keeping our eyes fixed on the Cross. Let us endure.

In conclusion, I loved The Dark Knight. It is a cinematic masterpiece. It raises the right questions that most movies shy away from even if it doesn’t offer the right answers.

My apologies for borrowing the title of Depeche Mode’s….what….sixth album?  And what about “album”?  Does that show my age or what?  But while dithering about trying to come up with the title for my very first post to this new WordPress blog I wanted to get it right and considering what I intend to cover I think I did.  If not, please feel free to offer an alternative title in the comments.  I’m all ears….so to speak. Thinking back on the history of consumer electronics one would find far fewer devices available to any family.  A radio was the only real consumer electronic for decades.  And, to a lesser extent, the phonograph made inroads into family living rooms.  Following World War II the world saw television signals delivered to the various aerials one would have either inside or outside the home and those transmissions flickered to life in varying shades of gray, forever changing the sound of radio. Eventually audio equipment in the guises of turntables, 8-track tape (and later cassette) players, and the like found a place in the family home.  Regularly a teen’s first major holiday or birthday gift would be one of those all-in-one stereo systems, resplendent with record player, cassette deck, AM/FM tuner and speakers.  Shitty speakers at that.  Not that the sound coming from the pitiful electronics inside the unit were that much better, but the truly weak link was always the rubbish speakers included with these all-in-one systems. But everything changed in the world of music when listeners were finally able to take music with them, wherever they went. We actually have to jump back to 1965 for the nascent start to it all in the way of the invention of the compact cassette by Philips.  But nothing else really transpired until 1979 when the innovative folks at Sony Electronics unleashed upon the unsuspecting public the Walkman.

Sony Walkman TPS-L2

The original model, the TPS-L2, wasn’t just a cassette tape player, but recorder as well.  It would turn out to be the player portion that would really take off in the consumer marketplace and push Sony to heights it hadn’t yet seen. Suddenly folks no longer had to be tied to a home or car stereo to listen to music.  Granted, portable radios had been around for decades, but that entailed listening to the music someone else wanted you to hear.  No longer.  Now you could bring along your prerecorded tapes or create your own tapes and truly enjoy the liberty of listening to your music on your terms. Over a period of about ten years I owned, if memory serves, about three of these devices.  I think one was a Sony and the other two came from a competitor named Aiwa.  I couldn’t find a picture of either model I owned, but I found this and it is very close to the latter of the two models.

Aiwa Portable Cassette Player

All of these portable cassette players were pretty cool devices, with each more current model offering better sound quality and features.  By the time I purchased the last one it included electronic equalization presets, Dolby B noise reduction, Type II metal tape bias adjustment and pretty decent battery life.  Yet, as good and useful as these devices were, they were something of a pain in the ass. I hated prerecorded cassettes as their sound quality was, simply put, atrocious.  Never did I hear a single one that sounded good.  Not even okay.  They always sounded awful.  The only choice for me was to create my own cassettes; mixed tapes, as we called them back then.  I purchased quality TDK (preferred) or Maxell and made full use of the Type II metal bias and Dolby B for superior audio quality.  I would spend hours putting together a mixed tape as it was an incredibly laborious project to both select the tracks and then obtain the best level for each individual song before actually recording it.  In essence I was listening to each song twice:  once to find the right level and once more when I actually recorded it to tape. This labor of love was always worth it though.  The quality of the audio was as good as was possible, but there were still the drawbacks and limitations inherent in the portable cassette player.  In my opinion the single biggest issue was the problem of flutter.  ”Flutter” is a technical term, but made easy to understand one can think of it like this:  the cassette player, for a variety of reasons, couldn’t always maintain a perfect speed while playing back the cassette.  Minute changes in speed of the tape during playback created a fluttering of the sound; a minor change in pitch.  A very minor change in pitch, but one that could be noticed, especially when the player was subjected to rapid changes in motion. “But why would a portable cassette player be subjected to rapid changes in motion?” you ask?  Simple, unless you were sitting still and the player was resting, the player would be moving.  For instance, I used to take my players with me when I went walking.  I never jogged or ran to keep in shape, but I enjoyed a fast walk.  If I attached any player to my belt via the included clip, the player would be jiggled about as my hips moved up, down, left and right while I walked.  This rapid motion was more than the AA or AAA batteries could overcome and so the player would speed up and slow down in rapid succession:  flutter. I mitigated this problem by carrying the player in hand while walking, which introduced another problem:  hand cramping.  Walking for sixty or ninety minutes (the usual time I walked) I would clutch the player as my arms swung back and forth.  This motion was such that flutter was hardly ever noticeable, but these devices where a handful in size and holding onto them in a secure fashion (never dropped one!) was tiring.  Yet these were the things one went through if they really wanted to listen to their music under the best conditions possible during those years.  But then things changed in a very dramatic fashion.  The world, for better or worse, went digital.

iPod Shuffle (1st gen)

Certainly the iPod line of portable digital music players were not the first.  Nope.  This honor probably belongs to the MPMan created and sold by SaeHan Information Systems of S. Korea.  It first appeared in the States in 1998 and was able to hold about 30-minutes worth of digitally encoded music.  Certainly not much, but a start nevertheless. A handful of players were developed over the following years, but it was the introduction of Apple Computers iPod in 2001 that forever changed the face of portable music.  I think it would not be unfair to say the iPod revolutionized the digital portable music medium. My first experience with a MP3 player was the above-pictured iPod Shuffle.  I purchased two 1GB versions; one for me and one for the daughter, whose portable CD player had recently died.  It was an amazing product and using iTunes was so simple, so intuitive, so convenient.  Suddenly the many, many hours spent creating mixed tapes were a total and complete thing of the past.  Now I could spend a few hours burning my CDs to the computer via iTunes and then transfer whatever music I wanted to the Shuffle.  I could let iTunes randomly select songs.  I could select the songs.  I could create playlists that would include just music I wanted (maybe by genre, year of release, artist, etc.).  It was amazing and I was completely smitten with the technology. But what do I remember the most about this experience?  The fact the Shuffle came with a lanyard so that I could do whatever it was I wanted without having to HOLD the damn thing!  Oh, and NO flutter issues at all.  Life was sweet.  But my appetite was now whetted and I needed more. However, the daughter’s Shuffle died a premature death and between this and the cost of iPods with greater storage capacity I was forced to venture to other manufacturers, which wasn’t a bad or good thing in the great scheme of life.  At this time I moved into the world of Creative Lab products.

Creative Zen Plus

The Zen line of MP3 players had received almost nothing but solid, almost rave, reviews all around the Internet.  Their price point was superior to the iPod and so it was I found myself purchasing a Zen Plus (the Plus included a FM radio, while the non-Plus model did not).  I made this purchase around 2004 and while very pleased with the audio quality of the Zen Plus, I was less-than-pleased with the included and required software.  In the end I used only Windows Media Player to transfer music to the player, but I first had to install the software which came with the player.  Why this was, I’m not quite certain, but it was clearly stated in the operating instructions that to do otherwise might leave me with a small, plastic paperweight.  Joy. While the Zen Plus was a fine player in most every regard, I had a fair number of problems with it and my soon-after purchase of the Creative Vision M.

Creative Labs Zen Vision M

I purchased this 30GB hard-drive based player (the Shuffle and Zen Plus being flash-based) for the purpose of taking it to my temporary job where I could listen to music all day long.  The 4GB Zen Plus left me hearing the same music twice within a few days, but 30GB…well…let’s put it this way:  my temporary employment gig came to an end before I heard the same song twice. But both of these otherwise competent and enjoyable Creative products gave me no small amount of fits and aggravation during their ownership. (to be clear I still own both, but haven’t used the Zen Plus since it died and the Vision M is used sparingly at most)  Both units seemed to have some issue with being recognized when plugged into my desktop PC.  Neither would be recognized in either Windows Media Player or the proprietary Creative software.  This was most odd.  This was very annoying.  And no amount of research or such provided me with any satisfactory resolution to the problem.  Sometimes the players were recognized and sometimes they weren’t. So it was that between this problem with being recognized by the computer and the premature death of my Zen Plus, I elected to again look elsewhere for my portable digital music needs. I enjoyed a very brief (like less than one week) affair with a Sansa product (made by SanDisk I thought I would give it a chance because I use SanDisk storage cards for my cameras), which was promptly returned as the audio quality was less than acceptable.  The player itself was pretty sharp and worked well (meaning the user interface was sufficient), but the sound quality, even with better ear buds, was simply not up to par. Enter the Sony Walkman NWZ-A818…

Sony NWZ-A818

The center player pictured above is the one I acquired.  With 8GB of flash memory it certainly would allow me to carry around a fair amount of music and did so in a well-designed and solid-feeling MP3 player I had yet owned.  But better than these impressions was the sound quality, which left behind even the great sounding Creative products.  The Sony, and its superior sounding ear buds, was a wake-up call to how good a MP3 player could be in every manner. The overall design was compact, but not too tiny.  The device felt solid in the hand.  The user interface was clean and well organized.  The display was very, very nice.  But ultimately it was both the sound quality and fact it needed no proprietary software that made this purchase so freakin’ smart.  I plugged it into my desktop PC, synced to it a randomly selected group of songs in Windows Media Player and was off and running in less than 20-minutes. I really cannot convey how impressed I have been with this player.  The whole experience is made even more impressive when one considers how lost in the wilderness was Sony for so many years.  For whatever reason Sony seemed to make mistake after mistake after mistake with its product line in the portable digital music age.  Proprietary codecs (the programming language that converts your CDs to a file format recognized by Sony players) and uninspired design left the former world champion of portable music languishing in the dust.  Mostly Apple’s dust.  The only complaint I have, and it really shouldn’t be viewed as a complaint, but as an unfortunate choice on my part, is that the NWZ-A818 is not compatible with iTunes even though it will play AAC encoded songs (AAC is one of a number of codecs that are used to convert CD songs into music files read by MP3 players – I’ll actually address this sort of stuff in my next post).  I say this is unfortunate because I recently acquired an iMac and am looking at making it my primary music playing computer, thus leaving the Windows world behind.  But for right now when I want to listen to take my music with me, and I desire sonic quality, I grab the Sony.  Period. But the story doesn’t end here.  Nope.  That would be too easy and make for a shorter story, so you’re stuck with me for a while longer. Actually, my next MP3 player wasn’t specifically purchased for its MP3 playing abilities.  Nope.  Instead it was purchased as a cell phone.  Say hello to my little friend; the Apple iPhone 3GS

iPhone 3GS by Apple

Besides the loads of other things this incredible device does it also serves as a media player, which includes music.  To be frank, while I have about 400 songs synced to it, I don’t actually listen to music on it.  I did, however, bring my ear buds (and not the horrible ones provided by Apple – less than useless they are) along and use it to both listen to music and watch some t.v. shows I synced to it, while I was in Florida visiting my parents at the beginning of September.  It is a fine and competent MP3 player, but I would not go so far as to say it sounds as good as the Sony (and I’m using the Sony ear buds so it’s a pretty straight up comparison).  I’d probably say the sonic quality is on par with the formerly discussed Creative products, which is very good, but still not in the same sphere as the Sony. But speaking of the trip to my parents….while there I received an e-mail from Apple, which mentioned they had refurbished, 2nd generation iPod Shuffles on sale with free shipping for a limited time.  The new 3rd generation iPod Shuffles had just come out and I guess Apple was anxious to unload the remnants of the 2nd generation players (the model I purchased is pictured below).

iPod Shuffle (2nd gen) by Apple

Now if you’ve managed to stay with me thus far you may be wondering why I would bother to purchase a 2GB iPod Shuffle when I already have:  Creative Zen Vision M, Sony NWZ-A818 and iPhone 3GS.  The question is even more poignant considering I own a stretchy arm-band thing for taking the Sony on the go when I hike, bike or…well…vacuum the house.  Well the reason is really quite simple:  2GB of storage is just about right for 200 songs, which is really great for not hearing the same song twice if you use the device only a fistful of hours each week.  The Sony, while a remarkable player, had become uncomfortable to wear with the arm band as the band makes me itch and, to keep it secure on my bicep, cuts off the circulation of blood to my lower arm.  Just a bit, mind you, but the slight tingling sensation in my fingers wasn’t any fun. When I saw the price,which was very good, I thought to myself “Why this over the new 3rd gen model?” especially when I had read that the latest version had superior sound quality.  But this answer was also pretty simple: the latest version did not include any controls on the actual player, but were moved to the Apple ear buds.  Which suck.  Totally.  And I wasn’t about to wait for a 3rd party product to come out for which I’d have to shell out another $20 – $60, thus raising the cost of this entire endeavor.  So I made the purchase from the comfort of my parents home and the 2nd generation iPod Shuffle in bright green arrived at my house a day after I arrived home. Sure…the sound quality is only okay.  Good, but nothing to write home about.  And sure, it only holds 200 songs (encoded in AAC at the highest possible variable bit rate), but you know what?  I don’t care.  I bought it for a specific need and purpose and it fits them perfectly.  I clip the little device to my clothes (usually along the hem of the neck opening of my t-shirt), pop the ear buds into my ears and I’m off and running with tunes while I do whatever it is I need to get done. What an amazing tale, eh? Okay.  This is a pretty long post.  And I really didn’t tell you much of anything other than my personal purchase history and impressions of MP3 players I have owned.  However, I did this to establish some ground work for what will be my next entry, which will also be related to the world of digital music and MP3 players.  In my next post I will discuss some of the criticisms of how we digitize music and the devices upon which we play said music.  And why I think those folks are crazy. I felt it was important to let it be known that I wasn’t simply making observations from afar, but that I actually have lived in the trenches, so to speak, of digital music playing device ownership.  It is from here that I will speak as I reconcile my personal purchasing habits (and the subsequent use of these devices) to what I read in the media. Until then…

CEATEC (Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies) Japan is a leading IT and electronics trade show and exhibition held annually in Tokyo.

This year, it was held from October 6-10, 2009 in the Makuhari Messe Convention Center in Chiba (just outside Tokyo).

Entrance fee at the door is 1,000 yen, but you can pre-register online for free.  Print out the registration form which contains a barcode, and on site, you scan the barcode in one of the laptops below …

… and your exhibit pass is automatically printed with your name and company.  Grab a transparent pass holder near the entrance and in you go – so efficient!

Once inside, you will find many exhibit booths organized in the conference hall.

For the real engineers, there were a number of companies displaying the latest in electronic components and equipment.

The latest in robotics is usually showcased in this event.  Murata Seiko (Japanese for Murata Girl) is the balance-blessed, unicycling robot …

… and Nissan’s crash-resistant Eporo robot car were featured.

Below is a YouTube from FNN about robots at CEATEC (I missed the singing robot).

There were not very many IT vendors this year, with only Intel and Fujitsu participating.

Cellular phone companies au by KDDI and Docomo had large booth areas showing the latest developments in mobile technology.

Consumer electronics companies had a huge presence during the show, with all the major brands displaying the latest in Full HD 3D TVs and green technology.  With 3D movies growing, it was only a matter of time when 3D had its presence in household TVs.

Panasonic displayed their latest full range of TV models …

… including the latest in Full HD 3D TV.

They also had a demonstration of the home of the future, a fully integrated electronic environment.

Hitachi had a large booth, but did not have Full HD 3D TV on display.

Toshiba had a full range of consumer electronics on display …

… including their version of Full HD 3D TV using Cell Regza technology.

Sharp showed their Full HD 3D TV model …

… and integrating green technologies into homes.

Finally, Sony had the biggest and most popular booth with their theme of “Sony brings 3D Home in 2010”, very impressive indeed!

Finally, there were booths from other well known brands such as 3M, TDK and Kyocera.

It was definitely a good day at the E.I.G.B this past weekend… Big props to the man Estria for putting it together for the people.

Jim Prigoff (Spray Can Art) chillin’ with Mr. Bode.

The man himself…

The theme was “GROW”.

Congrats to VOGUE TDK…for the first place canvas. It ain’t hard to tell.

Little DREAM with Uncle John. in the place to be.

DREAM FOREVER… BUT DON’T SLEEP.

Jo Baby, Greg C., Chad Yee

What’s a B-Boy event without a B-Boy Battle?…

we see you Paulskee.

yo…yall quit lookin’ at my shoes…don’t trip…it comes out next year…concentrate on the battle.

EMB crew…Leon “Cole”, Ran-D, FT, Scotty Doo.

Great Day in the “O” …Amen. I mean “OMEN” MPC. gettin down with the Brush.
Until Next year…PEACE!

-FRESHKO