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...

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?

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...