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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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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For someone who has ever spent a good few Sunday afternoons trying to teach their foggy grans how to make a call through their cellphones, the Raku Raku Phone V should...
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Japan’s top telecommunications company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. said Tuesday its group net profit surged 32 percent in fiscal 2007 on booming long...
made popular May 13 2008
When I mentioned all by your self in the head, I did not intend a pun at all. It is now a possibility to transfer data into a device by merely touching it; all courtesy...
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If you happen to love gadgets and if plenty of them are lying around like they are in my case, then you will find this very useful. I thought that my modern gadgets...
made popular Apr 18 2008
After the instance that involved a loss of data after HM Revenue and Customs lost discs containing 25m people’s details in UK, three years collaboration has...
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Japan’s top mobile phone carrier, NTT DoCoMo, said Friday its profit fell 15 percent in most recent quarter because of growing promotional costs and discounts...
made popular Oct 26 2007
What could be the most effective and vibrant advertising tool to lure the customers than NTT’s forthcoming aroma-emitting digital signage, dubbed the Kaoru...
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No doubt that all phoness tout their shapes, designs and features but NTT has came out with a unique gadget, the Flet Phone VP2000 that resembles a Tablet PC.
This...
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The weird sensation that you were feeling before you clicked on this post was probably because of the image that you are currently staring at. Yep, looks like that guy...
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Many of you might be having a dream to fly like a bird in the sky and feel free. No, I am not talking about your regular flights! They don’t have any wings... I...
made popular Dec 16 2006
NTT DoCoMo is planning to spread its tentacles all over the world by making its models compatible with global standards. It is definitely a good sign, both for the...
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