Getting my hands on the echorb was easily my most intriguing and impressive experience at CEATEC 2025. Part of that comes from what echorb is: a palm-sized, stone-like device that blurs the line between technology, art, and human sensation. Mixing art and technology has long been one of my favorite topics, and echorb sits squarely at that intersection. At first touch, echorb does not feel simple in a generic way. […]

At CEATEC 2025, Hitachi presented a connected vision for the future of industrial operations. Rather than showcasing isolated technologies, the company demonstrated how AI agents, metaverse-based digital twins, conversational machinery, and wearable sensing can work together to address a growing manufacturing challenge: maintaining efficiency, safety, and quality amid a shrinking and less experienced workforce. This challenge needs to be addressed particularly in Japan, where skilled technicians are retiring faster than […]

CEATEC 2025 featured the usual lineup of AI demos, service robots, and experimental interfaces. But inside Hall 4, a quieter, lab-style booth stood out for a very different reason. There, the RNA Co-creation Consortium demonstrated that RNA extracted from facial sebum can provide insights into the skin’s condition and support better day-to-day cosmetic choices. The booth’s theme, “RNA-Tech Driven Society – A new standard of living redefined by RNA-Tech,” reflected […]

At CEATEC 2025, Fujitsu expanded its ongoing exploration of what it officially calls its “AI technologies for human augmentation” with a new Golf Motion Analysis Experience, powered by the Kozuchi AI platform and developed in collaboration with Uvance partner AIGIA’s golf swing–analysis app.  This builds on last year’s showcase, where the company demonstrated how Kozuchi’s advanced skeleton recognition could analyze basketball shooting mechanics, yoga postures, and lifting movements in industrial […]

NARA, JAPAN – Qualicaps, a leading pharmaceutical equipment manufacturer, introduces its latest UV laser tablet printing and inspection system, QUALIS®-Pro¹, globally in November 2025. The new model integrates proprietary UV laser printing technology with a newly developed high-precision inspection system, offering enhanced manufacturing quality and efficiency for the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries.For over 20 years, Qualicaps has been a pioneer in UV laser printing technology and has led the industry […]

What if your brain could write its own captions, quietly, automatically, without a single muscle moving? That is the provocative promise behind “mind-captioning,” a new technique from Tomoyasu Horikawa at NTT Communication Science Laboratories in Japan (published paper). It is not telepathy, not science fiction, and definitely not ready to decode your inner monologue, but the underlying idea is so bold that it instantly reframes what non-invasive neurotech might become. […]

At CEATEC 2025, NEC unveiled an excellent example of how generative AI can improve real-world safety. Its AI Driving Diagnosis system, demonstrated inside the company’s booth, turns ordinary dashcam footage into an intelligent conversation about how we drive—and how we could drive better.The concept might sound like another driver-monitoring gadget, but NEC’s approach is quite different. By combining its video recognition AI with a large language model (LLM), the system […]