Fujitsu is developing a sophisticated sensor system that actually detects when a driver gets drowsy or begins to fall asleep. It tracks the driver’s heart rate via the steering wheel and once it notices you are falling into a slumber it starts doing annoying things in order to wake you up. The system will roll it’s windows down, blast the stereo or even jolt the wheel. That’ll end that highway nap quick. The tech is currently unavailable in any cars as it’s still in the R&D stages.

Fujitsu has announced their LifeBook U820 which features a new innovation to laptops, a secondary 4 inch touchscreen located above the keyboard. The secondary touchscreen acts as a second display which means that you can move windows to and from the main display to the mini display. It defaults with a program launcher application but you can manipulate it any which way you want. Pretty cool. I can’t wait until someone figures out how to do gestures on it.

The laptop, in terms of specs, is pretty impressive still. It features a 2.26 Ghz Core 2 Duo, 256 MB ATI Radeon HD, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB Harddisk, Blu-ray drive, WiFi, Bluetooth and a 1.3 megapixel webcam. Not too shabby. The notebook will run you $1499. No word when it will be available.

Thank goodness somebody is addressing the wasted-space/elongated edges problem attacking our laptops. Each laptop has at least a centimeter or so of wasted space on those edges. That adds up! Worry no longer. Fujitsu understands

The company is set to release the LifeBook p8020. It’s a 12.1-inch ultraportable laptop that most certainly trims away those nasty edges. It’s a bit chubbier than we’d like but there is a lot underneath the hood. It features a Centrino 2 processor, 320GB HDD, 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi , Bluetooth, gigabit Ethernet, a fingerprint reader, DVD burner, gesture-friendly trackpad and a 1.3 megapixel webcam. Phew! And not to mention a screen that extends right to the end of the computer with minimal wasted space.

It will come out this November at an expected retail price of $1,799.

Fujitsu’s 12.1-inch LOOX R ultra-portable is almost here! Weighing in at a mere 2.8 pounds (1.27-k) it has an LED backlit 1,280 x 800 display, up to 4GB or memory (oh yeah) and 120GB of disk, dual-layer DVD writer, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 a/b/g WiFi, SDHC slot, Firewire, fingerprint sensor, PCMCIA, and a battery running for 9.7-hours! Rumor has it this will be the first laptop to run a mobile version of Intel’s new Penryn CPU. We’ll know soon as it’s all happening in January.

Fujitsu’s Esprimo is here for you to feast your eyes on. The Mobile U9200, V5505 / V5515, D9500, and M9400 have lots to peruse here.