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“Radio Center” (”Rajio sentaa” - ラジオセンター) is a group of many little shops specialized in electronic components: multimeters, transistors, valves, capacitors, robot components, you can even find humanoid robots! The biggest electronic components department store in the world. Walking by these shops, that are all below the rail tracks next to Akihabara Station feels like [...]
Evolta is a new brand of batteries manufactured by Panasonic. In order to demonstrate how good their new batteries are they used a little robot and made him climb from the bottom of the Gran Canyon until the top in 6 hours and 40 minutes with only 2 AA batteries.
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Two weeks ago I visited a place underground where they raise plants with artificial light. It is in the Marunouchi area next to Tokyo station, I was very surprised to see what they are doing below all those skyscrapers in Maronouchi.
These are some of the pictures I took. In some of the rooms the light [...]
I never noticed that this palm tree in Daikanyama had solar panels on the top until last week. I like the idea of integrating solar panels in our cities, for example, in my spanish post someone suggested that Big Camera and Yodobashi should install solar panels on all their buildings roofs.
Asahi, the biggest beer brewing company in Japan, that we already know because they made The Personal Beer Robot (PBP) a while ago, has created a more advanced robot that is able to do:
Pretty amazing!
Found at Reghardware.
Docomo just released the new 906i and 706i series mobile phones. One of those phones is the F706i, built by Fujitsu. They are marketing this phone as “the thinnest waterproof phone in the world”. It has a 3.2Mp camera, I guess it would be useful and fun to use it to take some pictures while [...]
Last weekend I went to Akihabara and spend some time visiting the Tsukumo shop where they only have robots and robot related goodies. They are specialized in humanoid robots but they also have all kinds of electronic and mechanical components that you would need to build your own robot. Will Smith went to this shop [...]
Today’s newspapers are featuring this cool cleaning robot and a liked it!
It cleans, and it’s kawai!
Read this article about how “keitai” (Japanese mobile phone) market is affecting personal computer market. Japan is going to be the first developed country in the world where the PC market shrinks. All major traditional personal computer makers such as Toshiba, Panasonic, Sony, Fujitsu, NEC… are now pretty focused on developing mobile devices.
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Sony was founded in 1946 and their first product for consumers was a rice cooking machine. From that, they started to grow and built their first transistor factory in Gotenyama where they created their first portable radios.
Sony portable radio TR-63 in 1957.
A shop selling Sony products in the 60s.
Sony was growing very fast, they needed [...]
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