This year's CEATEC was a bit quieter than previous years, perhaps due to the lack of brand new consumer products. Fortunately, the show managed to substitute in plenty of future tech demos, while Nissan made more progress on the promise of a self-driving car and Japanese carrier DoCoMo offered up its vision for a wearable future through a handful of real-world demos. Dragon Quest smartphones, moon walking simulators and new solid-state hydrogen fuel cells rounded out the week's discoveries. Check out all the coverage after the break. Mata rainen!
Honda UNI-CUB vs. Toyota Winglet: the battle of human transporters at CEATEC
Nissan's autonomous Leaf shows its smarts on Japanese test track
Sharp's first Windows 8 tablet has 10.1-inch, 2,560 x 1,600 IGZO display and water resistance
Japanese carrier DoCoMo demos 'Intelligent Glass' wearable at CEATEC 2013
NTT DoCoMo's vision of '5G' wireless: 100x faster than LTE, but not until 2020
Dragon Quest Metal Slime smartphone revealed by DoCoMo, looks more metal than slime
Moon walker demo lets wannabe astronauts feel 0.17G (video)
The AI Plate is a floating touchscreen interface
Rohm showcases colorful solid hydrogen-source fuel cell chargers at CEATEC
Elliptic Labs releases ultrasound gesturing SDK for Android, will soon integrate into smartphones
Huawei's UltraStick is a 3G SD card with no storage, has slot for a nano-SIM
Toshiba bakes TransferJet file transfer and wireless charging into touchscreen kiosk