Gadgets
A while ago Japan was known as the country where 3G smartphones cost 1 yen. The terrible competition in the mobile phone market made telephone prices drop until the limit of 1 yen. Not only the most basic phones cost 1 yen, even the advanced and pretty good phones cost also 1 yen. Those were [...]
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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: Aoki, [...]
