February, 2007
We all dream with the day that some company would create a GOOD e-book reader , with a nice screen, long battery duration, that could read lots of formats (open formats included) and a with nice shape/size/design. A long time ago I tried librie from Sony, and from my point of view it faild because [...]
Space is a big problem here in Japan, but Japanese people are always thinking how to use it in smarter ways. Robotic car parks are very common in Japan, Tokyo is full of them. Here there is a video where you can see one of the most advanced ones I used in Odaiba island: The [...]
Since December is pretty difficult to find DSs or Wiis in Tokyo area but PS3 are everywhere and it seems people are not buying them. Nintendo 1 – Sony 0.
There are 5.600.000 vending machines in Japan (Source), there is a machine every 22 Japanese!. Is the country with more vending machines in the world, even more than China that has 10 times more population. There are all kinds of vending machines in Japan, with TV screens, with gambling games, with mobile phone interaction… Some [...]
-An alien lands in our home planet and asks: How do you decide things here? -A democratic earth dweller replies: we divide our world in something called “countries”, and in every country the majority decides. -Interesting, And how do you decide the territory that belongs to each country? -Well… territories are decided fighting and killing [...]
I like to try everything when it’s new. Finally I end up registered in thousands of communities, services that I usually forget. But there are some SNS that I actually use frequently. Twitter It’s the newest thing in the Net, you have to be there to be cool. You write “what you are doing from [...]
Eel (Unagi in japanese) is a very common dish in Japan, people usually it it with an special sauce and some white rice. It’s one of my favorite Japanese dishes. What is not so normal is what you can eat in some special places, you can order “eel spine” as an appetizer.
