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[CEATEC 2012] So you are absolutely, positively in love with your furkid, and you go with him/her everywhere, shunning places that are not pet-friendly in the process while knowing the location of all the parks in the neighborhood. Perhaps you will like what Fujitsu has in store for the masses – a special “Animal Medical Care Cloud Service”. Basically, your pooch will wear a collar that has a device attached to it which will gather all sorts of real-time information on your dog’s activity, knowing whether it is walking or running.

Relying on FeLiCa technology, the pet’s owner will then download the data to a compatible smartphone, where the smartphone in turn synchronizes itself to the Animal Medical Care Cloud Service which will ensure your pet’s health information is updated all the time, and will be made available to vets who are also in on the cloud. This service costs around $50 to $100 a year, but at least you can be sure that you can change vets without having to go through tales of your pet’s medical history all over again with the new vet, and during emergencies, the medical history can be pulled out to know what can be done, and what is to be avoided. Sounds nifty, but will it take off in the US if it ever arrives here? Check out another shot of the Fujitsu device on a faux dog after the jump.

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[CEATEC 2012] All right, Sharp is really pushing the boundaries when it comes to the resolution count on tiny displays where smartphones and other portable devices are concerned. I am referring to this 6.1″ IGZO display that will carry a phenomenal 498ppi, definitely a pixel density count that is far higher than any other which we have seen in the past and on current devices, making us wonder if someone out there is interested in churning out a tablet that carries a 6.1″ display or not. Surely this is an entertaining enough thought, don’t you think so?

Not only that, the 6.1″ IGZO display comes with a resolution count of 2,560 x 1,600, which is basically a case of your regular 30″ desktop monitor being shrunk down in size to just 6.1″ while maintaining its resolution count. It sure as heck is going to be an expensive affair if it sees the light of day in future devices, and we do wonder just how much juice does this particular display consume?

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KDDI’s booth was rather uneventful this year and has not much to show, unless maybe this very cool new palm authentication app for Smartphones. Unlike Fujitsu Palm Reader technology, KDDI’s palm authentication app will actually read your “palm” and take a picture of your palm and its lines and memories it for future use. Thanks to today’s Hi-resolution sensors, Cameras embedded on smartphones can take pretty accurate details of objects and in our case every …

Anyone remember the Disney Channel Original Movie Smart House? We’re thinking that some of the executives at Sharp watched that movie and then decided we needed something like that in real life, as Sharp unveiled a new virtual management system called Cocorobo @ Home at Ceatec 2012 in Japan. The best way to describe Cocorobo @ Home is as a system that allows you to control all of your Sharp appliances from one simple interface.

We’re talking the whole kit and kaboodle – air conditioning, fans, kitchen appliances, outdoor lights, indoor lamps. All of it can be controlled remotely through Cocorobo @ Home. You can even link your family’s phones, televisions, and tablets to the Cocorobo @ Home, which will show you where in the house everyone is.

Need to get a little vacuuming done? You’ll be pleased to know that Sharp has a new vacuum designed to work with Cocorobo @ Home to. Rather confusingly, the vacuum itself is called Cocorobo, and in addition to being controlled through the Cocorobo @ Home app, you can also control the Cocorobo vacuum through simple voice commands. For instance, you can ask Cocorobo – which looks similar to an iRobot Roomba vacuum and features a Sharp plasmacluster air purifier – how much battery it has remaining, or how much space is left in the dust bin.

It seems that Cocoboro @ Home will work with other non-Sharp products as well, as users can hook up their TANITA scale with Cocorobo @ Home to track their weight loss. You can also set up Cocorobo @ Home to remind you when you forget to weigh in. All of this sounds really awesome, but don’t expect it to arrive in your household for a long time – Cocorobo @ Home is still a concept product, and it sounds like it might be a while before it makes it to market. Still, we’ll be following it throughout the development process, so keep it here at SlashGear for more information.

Sharp unveils Cocorobo @ Home virtual management system is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Sure, cars that look like bugs are cool and all, but what we’re really interested in seeing at Ceatec 2012 are robots. With that in mind, NEC did not disappoint, introducing us to its PaPeRo telecommunications robot. This isn’t the first telecommunications robot we’ve laid eyes on, but it stands a pretty good chance at being the cutest (and/or creepiest).

For those of you who aren’t in the know, telecommunications robots are used for, well, telecommunications. PaPeRo, for instance, is controlled by a remote user, who sees the images PaPeRo is capturing with its camera eyes on his or her own screen. In broad sense, telecommunications robots like PaPeRo allow you to attend important meetings, visit with family, or do some good old fashioned recon without actually being there.

As you can see in our video posted below, PaPeRo is controlled using an app – in this case, on a tablet. This isn’t anything new for telecommunications robots, but with PaPeRo, it does seem like users have more control over the movement of the head. The video we have for you is quite short, but it should give a pretty good idea as to how PaPeRo is controlled remotely.

Of course, there are also speakers and a mic present for recording and playing back sound, so conversation between the two parties is possible, no matter the distance between them. NEC has actually been licensing PaPeRo to companies since 2009 (you’ve probably seen it in videos before today), but what we’re seeing here at Ceatec is the first non-enterprise application of the robot, meaning it should be available commercially relatively soon. We’ll be on the lookout for more details, so keep it right here at SlashGear for additional information!

NEC shows off PaPeRo telecommunications robot is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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