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Robots on Stage

Robots on Stage

At the Robot and Equipment of Technology Automation Exhibition, robots of various careers featuring different strengths are given a stage to show off their talents. Some dancing, some conducting concerts, and some striving to win a football match…

Flat Screens Looking Good

Flat Screens Looking Good

A stand at the International Hi-tech Industries Expo attracts many passers by to come and stare at its walls. The walls are in fact, ultra-thin, flat-panel screens.

Kids Can Phone Home Too!

Kids Can Phone Home Too!

If anyone has doubts as to the omnipresence of the mobile phone, just look into the schoolbag of a primary school kid! Legend’s “Sea Star” model is clearly aimed at the youngster market, or rather, their parents.

Robo-dog

Robo-dog

Children accompanied by their parents are crowding around a table of robot “pets,” in the “Robots and Equipment of Technological Automation Exhibition” at the China International Exhibition Center.

E-dreams for Future Ease

E-dreams for Future Ease

The football match is over, thousands of fans swarm out the stadium. Which way to go? How to find the least congested route? Relax, the palm PC holds a map of just about any city in the world you care to name. Not only will it show you the most direct route home, it will download the latest traffic report from the Internet, allowing you to dodge those traffic jams.

Hearing is Believing

Hearing is Believing

A display of rocks might, at first glace, seem a little out of place at a high-tech expo. Rocks that can play music, however, now that’s a different story.