All the stories tagged with: japan
Video games pirate arrested in Japan
05/30/2012, Japan is a country where piracy is frowned upon, and authorities in the Land of the Rising Sun has clamped down hard in recent years, especially where video game piracy is concerned. In fact, they have recently arrested a suspected [...]
Osaka Station City uses water to tell the time
05/18/2012, Fountains as well as sprays of water are definitely a thing of beauty, and for those who have been to Las Vegas, surely the fountains of Bellagio have mesmerized you with their nightly performance? Well, halfway around the world is [...]
Japan creates disaster-proof mobile networks
05/02/2012, If ever there is a country who knows that much about technology—leading the consumer electronics industry and leaving the rest of the world in awe and begging for more—it is the land of the rising sun, Japan. Japan’s top telecommunications [...]
Japan University to install photovoltaic panels on building
04/12/2012, In an effort to go green, the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan has revealed that the “Green Hills 1st Building”, which is a spanking new piece of construction in the Ookayama Campus of the university, will feature an installation [...]
Plug-in ad is non-intrusive and yet draws the crowds
04/12/2012, The irony of this particular advertisement is, it piques your interest and in the attempt to “kill the cat”, so to speak, you actually fall for the advertiser’s bait. Sure, the girl trio Perfume from Japan is currently taking a [...]
70 Megawatt Solar Plant Project in the Pipeline for Southern Japan
04/10/2012, Three companies, Kyocera Corporation, IHI Corporation and Mizuho Corporate Bank have unveiled their plans to install a 70 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic plant in Kagoshima City located in Southern Japan. Kyocera will supply the 290,000 multicrystalline photovoltaic modules and will also [...]
3-Axis analog joystick turns your phone’s camera into a joystick
03/30/2012, One of the caveats to having an onscreen joystick on your smartphone is that it usually blocks up a good portion of the screen. While it’s not much of a problem on a tablet, on smaller devices such as the [...]
Google’s auto-complete function breaches privacy
03/26/2012, Uh-oh – it seems that Google will have to stop its auto-complete function in Japan simply because of a case where a Japanese court deemed that the search engine breached one man’s privacy. The Tokyo District Court actually approved a [...]
Visible light communication projector adds more information to image
03/12/2012, The University of Tokyo is a hotbed of innovative thinking, and the Naemura Group is currently heading a research into interactive ways of presenting information, resulting in a projector that communicates through visible light. This visible-light communication projector is capable [...]
Tokyo Sky Tree officially completed
03/01/2012, Move over, Canton Tower – it looks like the crown for the world’s tallest tower has now been awarded to Japan’s latest megastructure – the Tokyo Sky Tower. Officially completed yesterday, the tower stands at 2,080 feet tall while the [...]
Speech jamming gun shuts people up
03/01/2012, The speech jamming gun has got to be one of the more interesting inventions that we’ve come across recently. Created by some researchers in Japan, it is a handheld gun that can jam the words of speakers who are over [...]
Brain waves used to make disturbing music
02/29/2012, While natural disasters can’t be helped, nobody likes to be reminded of them especially when they claim the lives of thousands of people. However, a Japanese artist named Masaki Batoh has decided to turn this negative experience into something creative [...]
Sony Ericsson Xperia NX up for pre-order next week
02/03/2012, Remember the Sony Xperia S that was launched during CES 2012 last month? The phone was reported to be arriving sometime in March in the UK, but it looks like it’ll be arriving in Japan a month earlier. According to [...]
