Technology
As Evan Williams, co-founder and CEO of Twitter has come one week to work here with us in Tokyo, we prepared a meeting of Twitter users in Japan. Evan is happy about our work with Twitter Japan; we are now one of the 10 most used Internet services in Japan beating Mixi and Facebook. We [...]
The other day Carlos, Alain, Mayo and I went to visit a temporary exhibition that showed some inventions that Fujiko Fujio, Doraemon author, imagined decades ago while drawing his manga. Most of the exhibition is centered around robotics advances in recent years that have allowed the creation of humanoid robots that can walk like Doraemon, [...]
After living for four years at the same place in Shibuya, a couple of weeks ago I moved to a brand new place. One of the little treats that I have had to give up is the remote-controlled washlet that I had at my “exhouse”. It might look like a futuristic luxury for foreign eyes [...]
Developed at the University of Tokyo. The video explains it very well. Impressive! More information at the IEEE Spectrum magazine.
This robot is amazing! It is, among other things, capable of maintaining its balance on a ball. It has been created by a professor and a student at the university Tohoku Gakuin. Source: Walyou.
It’s the first time in history that a robot marries two human beings. The wedding took place last week here in Tokyo.
Nowadays users don’t care anymore about the name of the technology that allows them to communicate. After the smartphone boom lived during the last years, what users want now is more bandwidth, they don’t care if it’s WiFi 802.11, 3G or HSDPA, the important thing is to be able to view high quality videos and [...]
This post is based on this Tech On article, and as a secondary source I’ve also used this article in theoildrum.com. On the first article they talk about how we will reach grid parity earlier than thought, which means that the cost of generating solar power will be equal or less than the cost of [...]
