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When I arrived to Japan in 2004 one of the first things that caught my attention were the cellphones. In Europe I was using a 2G Nokia and suddenly I had in my hands a 3G Casio cellphone.
My brand new Japanese 3G Casio cost me three euros, much cheaper than the 2G Nokia I had [...]
Tadao Casio founded Casio in 1946, soon after World War II ended. At the beginning the business of the company centered around machines that emitted plane tickets. During the early years they also had to repair some of the first mechanical calculators with electronic components that allied forces installed in the airports of Tokyo and [...]
Last week scientists of the University of Tokyo announced that they had created a new material composed of 95% water but it’s not liquid, it’s gelatinous. The material is composed of 95% water, 2% clay and the rest organic materials. They say that it could have many applications in medicine and is totally ecological. Cool!
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It was a hot summer night, I had dinner plans with Hiroyuki, a friend who has been working for Sony for the last 18 years. After a few too many rounds of sake, Hiroyuki started telling me that he worked in a secret lab from Sony. After finishing dinner and a couple more rounds I [...]
Researchers at the University of Electro-communications in Tokyo and the Japan Science & Technology agency, have recently showcased a new “3D multi-tactile” technology which they have named PhotoelasticTouch.
The system uses transparent rubber objects that interact as an input device to a computer. The “trick” is that above the screen (in between the user hands [...]
The latest gadget released to the Japanese market by Emobile looks great to me. It is a device that fits your pocket and connects to the Internet via HSDPA anywhere in the country at 7.2Mbps, without being plugged to any computer, and then generates a 802.11 Wi-Fi signal.
In other words, if you have the Pocket [...]
Fascinating!
To promote its new LCD televisions with LED retroillumination, Toshiba decided to send a chair to the highest altitude possible and record it. The chair was able to reach a 30 km altitude after an hour and half balloon trip until it broke down. The video was recorded using a 1920×1080 Toshiba camera and a [...]
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. It works with concentrated methanol that Toshiba sells in little bottles/batteries. Dynario uses methanol and the oxygen it obtains from the air to produce, through a chemical reaction, [...]
During last years Japan has kind of lost track in the consumer electronics market; Korean and Chinese brands have eaten a big chunk of the market share which before was dominated worldwide by Japanese companies. On the other hand, in the automobile industry Japan has become the undisputed world leader.
In the automobile world the next [...]
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