June 20, 2003

CeBit USA is Quiet.

I attended CeBit USA today at the Javitz center here in New York City. It was the third day of the show, and there were very few attendees on the floor. All the people manning the booths looked tired and bored. Perhaps I should have gone on the first day.

I did see some interesting demos at the NTT Docomo USA booth. They have developed a video pet feeder that lets you feed your dog or cat and watch it eat through a video phone. What will they think of next?

Mr. Ono, head of NTT Docomo USA gave a keynote speech, and he said that currently voice makes up 80% of their network usage, but in 7 years it will only make up 20%, and data will take up 80%. I hope he is right!

He ended with a very (unintentionally) funny video that was dubbed into English from Japanese. It seems that in the future, Japanese people will have mobile phones built into their clothing, and use their phones for everything. I sure hope they are wrong about that!

Posted by cyrus at June 20, 2003 04:02 PM | T r a c k B a c k
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Re: video pet feeder

Small dogs are the big thing here in Japan right now so the combination of pets and the net is a really hot one as the technology is not so difficult but the potential market comprises of people who have already demonstrated that they have money to burn! At this rate the first useful domestic robot is going to be the one that can take the dog out for walk. Hey, wait a second they can do that now. They could just hook the dog up to the Roomba! :-)

Posted by: Stuart Woodward on June 20, 2003 08:30 PM

As I hate small dogs.... What a fun idea! I will have to try it some time!

Posted by: Cyrus Shaoul on June 23, 2003 11:13 AM
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