Toshiba acude a Ceatec 2014 with solutions that seek a 'Human-centered Intelligent Community'

Achieving a safer and more comfortable society is the objective of the new developments that Toshiba has presented at Ceatec 2014, among which stand out a robot that can communicate and smart glasses, that are presented as an alternative to Google's. Wireless communication technologies such as TransferJet, FlashAir, NFC or SeeQVault can also be seen at their booth.

Toshiba has attended the Ceatec fair 2014, which has been taking place in Japan since last Tuesday 7 from October to Saturday 11, with the latest developments made within the concept that the company calls a 'Human-centered Intelligent Community' (Human Smart Community) and which aims to achieve a safer society, comfortable and convenient for citizens.

Taking into account this strategy, Toshiba has announced, as we already published in Digital AV Magazine, a human-like robot that is capable of moving its hands and arms, and communicate with sign language. This android is designed to be used in service work, health environment and social assistance.

Other innovations that Toshiba has come up with are smartglasses, that could include different apps for both leisure and professional activities; a new generation of wearables designed for the sports environment, user health monitoring, disease prevention or for healthcare applications; and modern home energy management systems.

In the field of electronic devices, Toshiba is demonstrating new wireless technologies that improve the usability of a wide variety of products. In these demonstrations you can see products with TransferJet in operation, a high-speed near-field wireless communication technology, o SeeQVaultTM, designed for content protection.

Toshiba is also showing semiconductors and storage systems for Bluetooth and NFC applications at Ceatec, as well as the FlashAir memory card, a SDHC wireless LAN.

Wearables for a healthier life

In the field of wearables, Toshiba is orienting its strategy to the public health and healthcare environment with the aim of developing tools that help people lead healthy lives.

At the fair it presented a fitness bracelet that incorporates biosensors to monitor sports activity; Slime, a module that includes vital signs sensors to analyze the user's physical condition and predict illnesses; and a thermometer with an app that helps women manage their sexual and reproductive health.