By Ross Miller
2010 posted October 5th 2: 40 pm
Ah, the Fujitsu bear cub social robots. What child or elderly person should go without a "people-friendly Terminal" with snuggly soft fur and a camera instead of the popular button nose? The little guy made short the round this year, but this is our first time to make acquaintances. The duo waved us, waved us, laughed with (?) us and then eventually decided arbitrarily fall asleep, ignore uns-- just like our actual friends! The representative told us this prototype - with a reported 300 actions 12 actuators (three face, three neck and six in the body), 13 skin touch sensors, hand grip sensors, a tilt sensor and a microphone - one unchecked way of hitting childcare / nursing home market. For now, enjoy the pictures below and footage, after the break... and if all this eerily familiar hey seems, we are with you. A wink and a nod in this direction can be found on the second video.
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back at Mobile World Congress in February, the mobile UI gurus to TAT showed their interpretation of a dual screen telephone interface by TI power plant OMAP4 testbed. Seemed a little pie-in-the-sky at the time, but frankly, the concept seems device is displayed by Fujtisu at CEATEC this week - created involving the TAT's arises. - practically ready for production. Or the hardware have anyway; it was Spartan in use comparison to call a few important cases where two huge, glorious 960 x 480 right next to each other in handy shows having come could obviously designed. We were shown, browser and email list scroll over both zeigt-- boring, if not offensichtlich-- but what really our became interested, have a cool photo sharing with you spinning photos you from a catalog on the bottom panel to a list of contacts on the top one - very TAT to share when we say us. Both displays can between high- and create landscape, a beautiful medium clamshell or a gigantic flip, no unusual form among Japanese phones be turned. In fact because the form factor, the completely Japanese interface and Fujitsu's history, we are sure this was completely would be with the Japan domestic market in the Verstand-- and we do not at all surprised it show up in a retail capacity it within a year or so to see. Follow the break for video.