Archive for the category Gadgets

Guitar phone

Por kirai el 18 de November de 2008 en Gadgets

Taito launched a really cool software that uses Docomo mobile phones sensors and cameras to emulate a guitar or any other musical instrument. The software name is “Chokkanband” and what it does can be seen visually in this image:

But better than words, and better than images, take a look at these videos:

Sources: CScoutJapan and Chokkanband.

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iPhone magazines

Por kirai el 04 de November de 2008 en Gadgets

It’s amazing how many magazines about ONE phone are being published in Japan. Yes, I know that the iPhone is MORE than a phone… but still.

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Choc-u-lator

Por kirai el 30 de October de 2008 en Gadgets

Chocolate+ Calculator = Choc-u-lator!!!

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Sleeping device

Por kirai el 20 de October de 2008 en Gadgets

A Japanese guy has invented a new super-gadget that helps him to announce to the people sitting around him in which station he is planning to get off the train. Thanks to this gadget we will be able to sleep without having to worry about waking up because our fellow travelers will hopefully wake us [...]

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UP300

Por kirai el 20 de October de 2008 en Gadgets

Since two weeks ago I’ve seen this ads in different places in Tokyo. They are cool, but I had no idea what was it all about:

It is a new Nikon gadget that was totally unexpected by the industry. The UP300 is a devices with headphones, an MP3 player with 8Gb, Windows Mobile 5.0 and a [...]

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D4 is pretty big

Por kirai el 14 de July de 2008 en Gadgets

Willcom D4 is a UMPC (UltraMobilePC) about which we talked about a while ago because it is one of the most little devices in the world being able to run Windows Vista. It was released a while ago but I did not have the chance to use until last week, it IS little… but it [...]

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iPhone queue in Tokyo

Por kirai el 11 de July de 2008 en Events, Gadgets

I went this morning with Dannychoo to check out the iPhone queue in the main Softbank store in Harajuku. It’s impressive, there is already people lining up for tomorrow! Did you get an iPhone today? will you wait? you don’t care about the iPhone? Here there are some pictures of the queue I took:

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UMPC running Windows Vista

Por kirai el 24 de April de 2008 en Gadgets

Willcom, the company that made the W-ZERO3, just launched a new super-telephone-pda-smartphone or UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC) or whatever you want to call it, and it works with Windows Vista! In Microsoft they must be very happy to see how someone has bothered to do so, and has managed to do it! But if you see [...]

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70s pocket calculator

Por kirai el 12 de April de 2008 en Gadgets

I found this interesting magazine ad at DC News. It’s one of the first pocket calculators that where sold in Japan. It was made by Sharp and it cost 84,800 yen!, nowadays that would be around 800$

Have you ever used one of these? Why are some functions together in the same buttons?
Links about pocket calculators: [...]

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5.5 terapixel camera

Por kirai el 09 de April de 2008 en Gadgets

Jim found it before me! It’s the famous 5.5 terapixel camera. I can’t wait to buy one of these

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