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After taking on the big and small screens, comic book heroes like Spiderman and Superman may soon be appearing on an even smaller screen — your mobile phone.
Suit-clad businessmen reading comic books are a common sight on Japanese trains, but they...
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In my place of work there is no check on an employee’s movement, and me being one, I keep loitering around for most of the day all unchecked. Employers in Japan have...
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Is any UN legislation in place as Russia is going to dig up Helium on the Moon in 2015 and Japan has found Uranium recently?
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Japanese unemployment rose to its highest in almost six years in May, raising concerns over the recovery of the world’s second-largest economy.
The unemployment...
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Twitting with just about anything is the latest go ahead. While radios and plants have done it already, nerds have even got an entire house to tweet. Stepping further...
made popular Jun 29 2009
Inspired by the Nature, formation of the clouds and the mountains (Mount Fuji found in Japanese woodblock prints of Hokusai), the Tokyo-based 16A Architecture Studio...
made popular Jun 26 2009
Filed under: News, Weird, Geek Out How do you celebrate the 30th anniversary of a popular anime series? You erect a 59-foot-tall statue in Tokyo — that’s...
made popular Jun 25 2009
The stigma attached to walking down the aisle even very late into a pregnancy is evaporating in Japan, with dekichatta-kon weddings accounting for almost one third of...
made popular Jun 22 2009
This Japanese fake taxi meter is a cheeky gadget that can turn a car into a taxi. It works like an ordinary meter, just press the button and it will start counting the...
made popular Jun 22 2009
We’ve spoken enough about motion sensing technology controlling doodads and it is time to move on and focus on a new way of doing it. You can control gadgets by using...
made popular Jun 19 2009
The internet gives us the ability to see and the prowess to communicate and frankly speaking, it was the smelling part which was missing. NTT has developed the i-Aroma,...
made popular Jun 19 2009
Some day your high-res TVs could be dwarfed to the size of a postage stamp, and that day isn’t very far away, for the Japanese (Kopin Corporation) have succeeded in...
made popular Jun 13 2009
From being capable personal assistants, to medical aides and even baby sitters, robots are being developed to take care of everything we humans can. A robot that could...
made popular Jun 12 2009
A lot of effort is going into making cars autonomous vehicles, but the results so far haven’t been very appealing. They’re slow, unpredictable and unworthy of any...
made popular Jun 12 2009
Japan’s Ethics Organization of Computer Software (EOCS) has decided not to allow the sale of rape games in the country. The decision came after protest from American...
made popular Jun 8 2009
We often use the phrase, “the future is here” – quite liberally in its actuality each time though. We cannot guess what the future has in store, but...
made popular Jun 6 2009
Japan’s sprawling Mitsubishi conglomerate has cornered a 40 per cent share of the world market in bluefin tuna, one of the world’s most endangered fish.
A...
made popular Jun 3 2009
The iPhone isn’t the most affordable thingamajig in many parts of the world and, to posses it, you sure need a sound income or else you need to be a student from the...
made popular Jun 2 2009
Your teeth need to be taken care of properly, and the better the “assistance,” the healthier they remain. Omron Japan has developed a toothbrush, the...
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With energy on the grind and the earth suffering, bulbs that glow using very little energy could be a big boost. AIST Japan has succeeded in developing such a lighting...
made popular Jun 2 2009
The geek has indeed inherited the earth. A growing number of pursuits are now aimed squarely at the geek in all of us. Gone are the days when poring over comicbooks,...
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Carlyle-controlled Japanese handy-phone firm Willcom Inc rolled out the world’s first phones featuring Intel Corp’s Centrino Atom microprocessors, as it...
made popular Apr 16 2008
Japan has taken a tougher stance on the DUI culprits and they are taking the help of technology to stop this menace.
Japan’s largest mobile operator KDDI corp....
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The Toyota motors group is making easy for car drivers to navigate cars and other services. The company has developed a mobile phone, named TiMO with KDDI Corp to help...
made popular Aug 31 2006
DoCoMo Inc. announced that company is going to begin the sales of new mobile phones in Japan, which will allow customers to download music and video clips about 10...
made popular Aug 28 2006
JCB Co. has developed the credit card software. Now Japan’s second-largest mobile phone operator, KDDI Corp is ready to sell mobile phones that contain credit...
made popular Aug 23 2006
The cell phone companies in Tokyo have planned to standardize the cell phone battery chargers and sockets so that any cell phone whether it is of NTT DoCoMo Inc, KDDI...
made popular Jul 13 2006
KDDI Corp. and Google have agreed to develop search engine into internet mobile phone services of the former. KDDI corp. will become the first mobile telephone network...
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Who else other than the Techonology King , The Japs should invent a mobile that can help parents keep track of their children ? With crime rates increasing immensely in...
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