Shows and launches
CEATEC 2008: scrums, ball-point pens and unicycling robots
I have in my hand what appears to be the most desirable object here at CEATEC, and this is it. Allow me to explain, with apologies to those who splutter into their cornflakes that some content on this site has nothing to do with hi-fi or ...
CEATEC 2008: The house of the future - at home with Ma and Pa Nasonic
This is Panasonic's vision of the future, forming the centrepiece of its stand here at CEATEC in Japan. And it reckons this is how we'll be living in the next three to five years. The whole home, owned by a bright, dressed in white young ...
CEATEC 2008: slimmer, greener and working together
It's raining here in Makuhari, just outside Tokyo, where the annual CEATEC consumer electronics show opened this morning, and we're told there may be a typhoon on the way. But despite the weather and the global economic situation, the exhibiting ...
IFA 2008: a heady mix of late nights, keynote speeches and emotional rhetoric
The first full day of IFA 2008 is no place for the fainthearted. Manufacturers, journalists, carpenters and assorted enablers may have been hard at it in the Internationales Congress Centrum in Berlin since Wednesday, but today's the first day of ...
Check out our IFA show news
It's kicking off big-time at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin this morning, with most of the major manufacturers holding their press conferences throughout the day.Our four-strong news team has been up since the early hours dashing ...
First impressions from CEDIA Expo 2008
It's been a frustrating old day at CEDIA Expo at the Excel Centre in London's Docklands. There we were in the heart of a show highlighting some amazingly sophisticated technology, desperate to bring you news of all the latest gadgets and gizmos ...




