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Where was this technology last week when I dropped my poor little iPhone, while trying to balance it on top of my Chinese takeout? The answ....
30 Nov 1:02 pm from Bionicbong

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Mobile Phone Straps

The strap animals look bigger than the phone in some cases Most users of Japanese cell phones (keitai’s), have a strap on their phone. I t....
30 Nov 11:14 am from Shibuya246

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iPhone, the Japanese way

Apple’s must have gadget is given the Japan treatment…. The iPhone presented a bit of a dilemma to the Japanese tech crowd. It closed th....
29 Nov 12:24 pm from Japanorama

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Make Tokyo Meeting 04: Where You Can See Future, Magic And Junk In A Place

Last weekend at Ookayama Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O’reilly Media’s mechatronics magazine “Make” held the 4th meeting[....
28 Nov 1:47 pm from Asiajin.com

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Light Sabers and Robots = Dance Party! – International Robot Exhibition 2009

The International Robot Exhibition 2009 is underway in Tokyo, and Yasukawa is again showcasing its Motoman robots. Previous models were dext....
27 Nov 12:07 pm from Bionicbong

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Mom Has Daughter’s Baby in Nagano

Dr. Yahiro Nezu of the Suwa Maternity Clinic, along with the mother and daughter, spoke with reporters about the procedure and pregnancy. T....
26 Nov 2:51 pm from Bionicbong

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Eco-friendly LED Lighthouse Test in Yokohama

Engineers test eco-friendly light emitting diodes (LED) in a 113-year-old lighthouse in Yokohama Port, south of Tokyo, on Nov. 19, 2009. The....
26 Nov 1:41 pm from Bionicbong

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Tokyo International Robot Exhibition 2009

Today at the Tokyo BigSight there was the Tokyo International Robot Exhibition 2009. Some pictures and a video, take your own conclusions. ....
26 Nov 1:41 am from zuco

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Won’t Miss #80 – being offered green cards

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24 Nov 5:01 pm from 1000 things about Japan

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Toshiba sends a chair into the stratosphere

To promote its new LCD televisions with LED retroillumination, Toshiba decided to send a chair to the highest altitude possible and record i....
23 Nov 7:10 pm from Kirainet

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Quadcam App for iPhone

Our world is full of competing visual stimuli. Capture that stream of visual consciousness with this great app for the iPhone. We live in a ....
22 Nov 11:54 am from Japanorama

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Universal Language Communicator

Well…for Star Trek fans this might be the closest we’ve come to the universal translator..for the rest of us it might be the next new to....
22 Nov 10:49 am from Bionicbong

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Hayabusa Asteroid Probe’s Rescue Plan

Japanese engineers have devised a plan to combine parts from two partially-failed ion engines to resume the Hayabusa asteroid probe’s jour....
21 Nov 4:48 pm from Bionicbong

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‘Runaway Sites’ Latest Exploitation of Young Girls

Desperate measures: A cell phone in Shibuya, Tokyo, shows an 'iede saito' (runaway site), where runaway girls post requests for a place to s....
21 Nov 4:32 pm from Bionicbong

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Crazy doggy bank eats your coins

An NTV morning news show plays with Choken Bako, a doggy bank that devours coins: The doggy bank is available in black, white, and brown. ....
21 Nov 11:34 am from Japan Probe

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Foreigners amazed by giant garbage claw

Some of Asahi TV’s foreign reporter team, visits a trash processing facility near Tokyo Bay and gets to see a giant claw in action: The ....
21 Nov 9:51 am from Japan Probe

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Two dimensions of 3D

An old Saturday Night Live segment once included this joke when Frank Sinatra was still alive: “‘Ol’ Blue Eyes’ is back in town, a....
20 Nov 7:55 pm from Reuters Blog Japan

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Father of i-mode

Mr Natsuno (夏野さん) is well known in Japan as the creator of Docomo’s Imode platform for their cell phones. I had the chance to go ....
19 Nov 4:00 pm from Shibuya246

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Robot meets iPhone

This video is nifty in ever sense of the word. It puts the power of the iPhone with a little bit of ingenuity in perspective like no other ....
19 Nov 12:47 pm from Bionicbong

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Fuel cell battery charger by Toshiba

This is the first fuel cell battery charger on sale in the world. It is called Toshiba Dynario and until now it is only available in Japan. ....
18 Nov 6:51 pm from Kirainet

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Google debuts instant translation service

This week Google introduced a new look and feel for it’s online translation service, Google Translate. Previously the system allowed th....
18 Nov 1:40 pm from Zonjineko

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Self-Generating, Battery-less Remote Control For TV

NEC Electronics and Onryoku Hatsuden developed a prototype [J] of remote control which is powered by the movement of user’s button-push ac....
18 Nov 12:15 am from Asiajin.com

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Plug-in electric scooter put to the test

“Mezamashi TV” morning show takes a new plug-in scooter for a 141-kilometer test run from Numazu to Tokyo: The scooter runs fine on f....
17 Nov 7:00 am from Japan Probe

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Japan tops ITIF broadband rankings

The graphic (available here) shows the top 20 nations by internet costs and speeds around the world as ordered by the ITIF Broadband Ranki....
26 Oct 8:15 pm from Zonjineko

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Japan: On Twitter, nobody knows you’re a bot

“On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.” — The words of a well-known adage dating back to a New Yorker cartoon fr....
12 Mar 10:24 pm from Chris Salzberg

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Japan: Tokyo gov’t invites Google to discuss Street View

Blogger Hiromitsu Takagi posts a transcript [ja] of a recent open meeting [ja] organized by the Tokyo metropolitan government about Google&#....
12 Feb 3:38 pm from Chris Salzberg

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