Photo 2 of 5: Gadgets galore in old Tokyo
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CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos travels to Tokyo to find out what may soon be on U.S. shelves.
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Get up close and personal with the curiously '80s-stylings of the Fujitsu UMPC
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More than just a repository of dying trades, the museum of tools and its associated library in the French town of Troyes are home to a vast collection of books about the craftsmanship of the past.
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Hitachi shows off its latest DVD and camcorder technology at the CEATEC trade fair near Tokyo.
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Long lines form in Japan where shoppers finally get their hands on the portable gaming device.
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A composer and koto player reinvents an ancient Japanese stringed instrument by way of an Apple G4 PowerBook and tightly focused beams of light. By Alexander Gelfand.
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Smart cards are on the rise in Japan, using computer chips with an antenna embedded in them to allow people to pay for purchases or unlock doors with a simple flick of their cards.
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Young Japanese people are evolving a new lifestyle for the 21st century based on the cellphones that few are now able to live without.
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Unlike its hipster namesake, the Tokyo neighborhood known as 'Grannie's Harajuku' is a kind of SoHo for seniors, with lessons for retailers everywhere
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By Mike Dougherty, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Jun. 22--thingsthatwere.blogspot.com   I love old stuff, and this blog has scads of pix of old stuff that once was. Some of it is still around. Lots of it isn't or is in a serious state of disrepair. Pretty cool stuff. Check it out.
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Cool gadgets from Asia this month also include a Toshiba laptop equipped for HD DVD-R.
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From the ultimate red-light district for gadget fetishists in Tokyo through Silicon Valley and CERN, we point you to the getaways that mean the most to your nerdy heart.
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In Japan, a 28,000-square-foot homage to the automaton begins the archiving of man's fascination with robots. Take a look at some of the specimens. By Brian Ashcraft from Wired magazine.
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The big gadget show is now formally under way in Las Vegas. Here are some of the highlights from Monday.
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The latest technology standards war intensified this week as Japanese electronics giants used a major Tokyo tech show to show off two technologies jostling for position in the high-capacity storage market - Blu-ray and HD DVD.
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CHIBA, Japan, Oct 6 (Reuters Life!) - Forget the giant  flat-screen TVs and snazzy mobile phones. At Japan's biggest  technology trade show on Friday, Wataru Tatebayashi, 35, aimed  his camera at the women in miniskirts lining up in front of the  gadgets to wave visitors goodbye.
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Sharp designs and colors fight the impression made by older devices.