Toyota unveiled Tokyo 2020 Games automated vehicles, the e-Palette project was announced at CES in Jan. 2018, touting low speed SAE level 4 running circuits through Olympic athletes village. Details in English here: https://t.co/JdCLcYpU8j pic.twitter.com/xS3XIO8heW
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) October 12, 2019
Year: 2019
Congrats to this trio on well-earned recognition; 2019 #NoblePrize in Chemistry for the development of Lithium-ion battery technology. Yoshino-sensei (et al) Many Thanks for your fine efforts, see announcement ceremony via Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences https://t.co/GzXsBm06yK pic.twitter.com/KM89tcVGvV
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) October 10, 2019
DoCoMo and AGC have been working on glass antenna base station design for several years, see announcement confirms world 1st commercial deployment for LTE network with 5G enabled version expected in 2020 [Jpn] https://t.co/ATtO7m3H4Y pic.twitter.com/W6PfJvMX6Q
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) October 10, 2019
Panasonic Design at Kyoto KADEN Lab unveils Hibiki wireless speaker, set in solid brass container modeled on famous local tea merchant project partner – with cool on/off feature, limited edition of 100 units priced at $3K. Details here [Jpn] https://t.co/bxdyXbqeuO pic.twitter.com/iv0mXgH1o4
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) October 9, 2019
The 20th annual CEATEC conference and trade show event runs Oct. 10/18th, often called the Japanese version of CES it typically draws +150,000 attendees. See 180 sessions on the program this year, agenda topics and speaker details here: https://t.co/AG74iN0rGH pic.twitter.com/u5ytsu6Bzs
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) October 7, 2019
The R&D Labs at KDDI just released this proof of concept; using blue LED to live stream video from your phone while scuba diving.. YouTubers Rejoice! [Jpn] https://t.co/ZX9XGDEE7l pic.twitter.com/yy1wTPXMkK
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) October 3, 2019
SoftBank announced Official Partnership for Wizards Unite, via Niantic Labs ala Pokemon GO style, with all of their 3,300 retail locations in Japan Live Today! Details as released in English here [Pdf] https://t.co/fhpTiZyVx0 pic.twitter.com/eiYkFeHoT7
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) July 2, 2019
DoCoMo held their 5G Pre-Service launch event, noting several handsets and related demo activities, along with debut of the O-RAN network partnering with Fujitsu, NEC and Nokia. Overview details here [Jpn] https://t.co/6ugpDpW0Jb pic.twitter.com/pMd5B1QwUR
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) September 23, 2019
See A.L.I. Tech. will exhibit their so-called “Speeder” prototype at Tokyo Motor Show in October.. apparently planning to deliver limited edition of this flying motorbike concept by 2H of 2020 [Jpn] https://t.co/NFs89FzkMx pic.twitter.com/ffZu65IJHG
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) September 14, 2019
The annual @Tokyo_Game_Show event runs 9/12-15th, with record 655 exhibitors across 2,417 booths, slim info. in English on their site this year? Here’s 60-page overview w/details in Japanese, machine translated: https://t.co/KDydZ8k3vf pic.twitter.com/5AoGERGR7Q
— Mobile in Tokyo (@Wireless_Watch) September 9, 2019