J. Mark Lytle

Tuesday morning and all is well in the tech world - apart, that is, for builders of cheapo laptops interested in selling them with Windows XP pre-installed.

Sony's FeliCa expertise now available in North America

Exotic molecules like carbon buckyballs may soon become part of our everyday lives if the latest prototype fuel cell from Sony ever makes it to the high street

Rounding up what just happened so you don't have to

Thursday morning brings us the news legions of so-called casual gamers have been waiting for in the shape of the new Wii channel called, rather dully, Nintendo Channel.

If it gets its way later this week, the Japanese government looks set to introduce a levy on all portable digital music players and home PVRs that will amount to what many are calling an 'iPod tax'

Wednesday morning comes but once a week and what better way to kick it off than with a welter of phone-centric news snippets?

Exclusive What comes after photos and GPS? We look into how Japan is using RFID

Two formats in P960 for twice the chance of success

Rounding up what just happened so you don't have to

Vivaty adding 3D virtual rooms to flat online worlds

Galileo has money in the bank and political will to make it fly

Japanese data transfer system flows bits across skin

Mac, iPhone still hot but is the iPod boom over?

Cheap, smart and the perfect way to annoy pretty much everyone

Exclusive Pondering yesterday's news about HAL, the world's first commercial robotic exoskeleton, made us wonder how much of an impact robots that are designed specifically to help people are likely to have

Over the years, we've seen plenty of exoskeleton-type robot suits designed to give superhuman strength to mere humans, but - until now - none has been available to buy

One of the more low-key exhibits at the Display 2008 show in Tokyo is a new kind of e-paper that promises an electronic experience far closer to real paper than anything we've seen before

Exclusive Robots are good for plenty of things, but having a meaningless chat generally isn't one of them - something that has to change if a group of Japanese researchers are to be believed

Aside from flashy 3D displays, the other big draw for fans of future tech at Display 2008 today was electronic paper in at least 57 flavour-packed varieties

Tokyo show home to the latest and greatest in flatscreens

Tiny technology promises tiny electricity bills and better batteries

That old saw about lies, damned lies and statistics is often wheeled out by politicians but since when have respectable market researchers been using it to talk about video games?

Like in Japan, the tech is clever, but what's the point?

Now that Blu-ray is clearly the one format to rule them all, makers are throwing themselves into building bigger and better machines with almost reckless abandon.