SHOTLIST:

1. A driver getting on a Toyota motor triathlon race car

2. Close up of the screen showing the virtual circuit the driver is driving

3. Cutaway of people watching

4. Close up of the screen showing the virtual race

5. Wide shot of the driver finishing the race

6. People clapping hands

7. Ground shot of the wheel which install motor

8. Close up of the emblem

9. Wide shot of the car

10. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) of Shinji Iwasa, R & D Management Div., Toyota Motor Corp

11. Wide of Hitachi booth with the showcase of hologram

12. Tracking shot of hologram image of mobile phone

13. Mirror projecting the hologram image

14. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) of Takeshi Hoshino, Interaction Design Group, Hitachi Ltd.

15. A girl going around the image

16. Close up of Seiko Epson's flying micro robot flying up

17. Close up of kids watching

18. Flying micro robot flying down

19. Close up of a woman wearing Fuji Film eyewear

20. Women making wiping movement with the Fuji Film conceptual camera

21. Back shot of woman's arm making a wiping movement to the filming subject

22. Screen showing the ideas of the photos filmable with the device

23. Mid shot of a woman wearing Fuji Film conceptual glove shaped camera and taking a photo

24. Back shot of a woman zooming in and zooming out as she moves away and closer her glove camera

25. Close up of lens worn as if a finger ring

26. Mid shot of a woman taking photos with the glove camera

SUGGESTED LEAD-IN:

Tokyo hosted the Future Creation Fair last weekend (August 28-30), showcasing the best of what's to come from around the world.

According to the organisers, the aim of the fair is not just to show the latest, but also to stimulate designers of technology to go one step further with their vision of the future.

VOICE-OVER:

This is a prototype of Toyota's car of the future - the motor triathlon race car, or MTRC.

The car manufacturer is gambling that we'll all be wanting one in the future.

It's a combination of two-seater off road vehicle, road speedster and race car.

It has not one, but four engines - electric motors, in fact - one in each wheel powered by a stack of fuel cells.

The manufacturer has come up with a way for visitors to test drive the concept car, even though it never moves from its display stand.

Toyota have hooked up the controls to Gran Turismo 4, a video game featuring the concept car.

Instead of a conventional screen, visitors are provided with a race helmet with a built-in display for the ultimate virtual reality driving experience.

But the car isn't just for fun.

According to a company spokesman, the car has been designed to sense when the driver takes it off-road, automatically adjusting the ride.

SOUNDBITE: (Japanese)

"When the car goes off road, the condition is no longer smooth nor flat. This car reacts to the road condition and automatically adjusts the car height in accordance to the road condition. The car controls itself into the best position so as to be able to drive fastest."

SUPER CAPTION: Shinji Iwasa, R & D Management Div., Toyota Motor Corp

Remember the hologram telephone display in "Star Wars"?

It may no longer the dream far far away galaxy.

This is Hitachi's conceptual projector which displays the telephone caller in 3 dimensions.

The viewer can walk around the image seeing the speaker as if he or she were actually there.

SOUNDBITE (Japanese)

"Ordinary flat displays are limited. With this device, the subject or a human appears as if they are floating and three dimensional. You can go right around the picture."

SUPER CAPTION: Takeshi Hoshino, Interaction Design Group, Hitachi Ltd.

The projector uses mirrors to project an image of the speaker shot from 26 angles.

The different images are combined and projected to make the speaker appear as if he was floating on air.

Hitachi say this concept could one day make flat speaker screens obsolete.

Seiko Epson displayed the world's smallest flying robot.

The helicopter, a 12.3-gram (0.4-ounce), 85-millimeter (3.35-inch) machine, follows a pre-set flight programme sent from a computer using Bluetooth wireless technology.

The little buzzer also takes pictures and the manufacturer says it could be used in future search and rescue operations.

The cool shades are part of the completely new conceptual camera from Fuji Film.

They're the viewfinder for this new camera.

As the demonstrator pans quickly across the subject, in this case the people standing in front of the stand, the camera films the whole area.

And forget blurred and chopped off images.

This camera has high speed resolution making those common faults a thing of the past.

Also from Fuji is the camera glove.

The sensor reacts to finger movements and films the image and then replays it.

Finger movements make the lens zoom in and out.

Closing the hand and obscuring the lens causes the camera to stop filing and replay the image.

In spite of the enthusiastic reaction of visitors to the show, manufacturers say everything on display is just an idea and they have no commercial plans.

SHOTLIST:

Tokyo, Japan - 16th May 2013

1. Wide of Honda President Takanobu Ito walking towards podium

2. Mid of reporters

3. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Takanobu Ito, Honda President (on the benefits of Honda returning to Formula 1)

"For Honda to remain competitive, we must continue further development of our own advanced technologies. In order for this, young engineers need to test their technologies in the global arena and improve. I believe the F1 gives us the optimal opportunity to accomplish this."

4. Wide of Ito shaking hands with Martin Whitmarsh, McLaren CEO

5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Martin Whitmarsh, McLaren CEO (on renewing McLaren's partnership with Honda)

"Like McLaren, Honda is a company with motor-racing in its blood, and it's the mark of ambition we both share, that we want to recreate our past glories and take MacLaren Honda, back to the top."

5. Wide of Whitmarsh

6. Wide pan from photographers to Ito and Whitmarsh photo op

7. Close pan from Whitmarsh to Ito, zoom out to wide of photo op

8. Wide pan of racing cars on display

9. Close of Honda logo

10. Mid pan of a racing car

11. Wide of racing cars on display

SOURCE: SNTV

STORYLINE:

Honda announces return to Formula 1 as McLaren engine supplier

Japanese automaker Honda is returning to Formula One in 2015 as an engine supplier to McLaren, recreating a partnership that was dominant in the 1980s and 1990s.

Honda president Takanobu Ito made the announcement at a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday, reversing their 2008 decision to pull out of the sport due to the effects of the global financial crisis.

Ito says with F1 changing to six-cylinder turbo engines next year, the decision to return was easy because Honda will be able transfer the technology to its commercial vehicles.

"For Honda to remain competitive, we must continue further development of our own advanced technologies," Ito said. "In order for this, young engineers need to test their technologies in the global arena and improve. I believe the F1 gives us the optimal opportunity to accomplish this."

The tie-up renews an association that became one of the most successful and powerful in F1 history during the 1980s and '90s with Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost at the wheel.

Between 1988 and '92 McLaren and Honda won eight world championships and 44 grands prix, took 53 pole positions and set 30 fastest laps - all in just 80 grands prix.

McLaren CEO Martin Whitmarsh welcomed the renewal of its ties with Honda, "Like McLaren, Honda is a company with motor-racing in its blood, and it's the mark of ambition we both share, that we want to recreate our past glories and take MacLaren Honda, back to the top."

Honda was an entrant, constructor and engine supplier between 1964 and 2008 but the expense of F1 forced it out of the sport along with rival Japanese manufacturer Toyota, which pulled out in 2009.