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It seems that on September 23rd, Microsoft is not going to hold back on the upcoming Surface 2 range of tablets, and the folks over at Neowin have managed to pick up some vital information concerning such tablets, as well as the different accessories that these tablets will come with, courtesy of some alleged insider information.

Apparently, Microsoft has had plans for an updated Type Cover which should most probably arrive in a range of colors for the first time. So far, Neowin has managed to get hold of blue and purple Type covers, and who are we to say that there will be no other different colors down the road? After all, to churn all of these out in a bevy of rainbow shades is a simple matter considering how one just needs to spray the plastic with a new color. Apart from that, there are also whispers of a white/silver Surface 2, although it remains to be seen whether this is a result of a prototype, or is it yet another brand new color that will hit the market.

The press-only event that is set to happen tomorrow will also include another peripheral or two which has been making its way around the rumor mills, although there is nothing more concrete to continue from there. All in all, we just have to sit tight and stay tuned!

Microsoft Rumored To Unveil New Surface Tablets Soon original content from Ubergizmo.

NTT DoCoMo’s LTE-Advanced network may still be in its infancy, but the company’s already preparing for when 150 Mbps is considered slow. Many are looking towards the next-generation of mobile broadband, and DoCoMo has said its ready to reveal its very own 5G “concept” at the CEATEC conference in Japan next month. We don’t know if the company is referring to the monstrous 10 Gbps link that has competitor KDDI scratching its head, but “incredible speed, high capacity and low latency” are promised features. In addition, DoCoMo will preview its “winter 2013 / spring 2014” handset line-up and show off work it’s been doing in the augment-reality and wearable spaces. We’ll be around to browse the booth, of course, and dream of a time when streaming native 4K content over 5G to 21-inch smartphones will be standard.

[Thanks, Erwan]

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On October 11, NTT Docomo will start the Utsushite Honyaku service, which instantly translates foreign-language restaurant menus when you point a smartphone’s camera at them.
Utsushite Honyaku is a commercial version of a service that’s been available as a trial version. As well as menus, the new service can now handle signs. It works between Japanese and four languages: English, Korean and both simplified and traditional Chinese.
“For example, suppose you visit Korea, and you …

An AR heads-up display wasn’t the only navigation hardware Pioneer showed off at CEATEC 2012. The firm also took the opportunity to tear the wraps off a new line of gesture-controlled Raku Navi GPS units. With the infrared-powered Air Gesture feature, drivers can wave their hand in front of a device to pull up a menu with commands such as setting their home or a personal haunt as a destination or skipping to the next tune on a playlist. Once a hand is retracted, the menu will be replaced with the usual map interface. Though the solution isn’t completely hands-free, horizontal hand waves can be assigned one of ten different functions. Japanese store shelves will be lined with two dashboard-embeddable units by mid-October, while four console-independent models will join them in early November. As of now, there’s no word if the hardware will make the pilgrimage stateside.

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Ditch your Omega and get with the high-tech watch times, granddad: Futaba is hoping the well-dressed wrist of tomorrow will be sporting its flexible OLED, the company’s thinnest yet. Just 0.22mm thick, and easily capable of being bent around your arm – such as in the watch concept Futaba is showing at CEATEC this week – the 3.5-inch display makes current smartwatches look clunky in comparison.

The display is an odd aspect ratio – long and narrow, to wrap around your wrist – and so the resolution is atypical at 256 x 64. Brightness is 100 cd/m2, and of course there’s full color support; if you’ve ever wanted to watch video of very tall, narrow buildings as well as tell the time, this could be the concept for you.

What we don’t know is power consumption. Recent smartwatches have used e-paper or transflective panels so as to minimize energy requirements, on the assumption that a compact device will only have minimal space for a battery but still be expected to deliver all-day runtimes. Futaba wasn’t saying exactly what sort of power draw the 0.22mm OLED demanded, though the display technology has generally been more frugal than traditional LCD.

Of course, this watch itself won’t be hitting the market, as it’s just a way for Futaba to show off what its flexible OLED is capable of. Still, the screen technology is production-ready – the company had a 0.29mm version back in June – and is just waiting on a vendor with a suitable application to snap it up.

Futaba 0.22mm flexible OLED watch concept wants your wrist is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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