All the stories tagged with: japan
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 [...]
KDDI pushes ads onto Android devices
01/23/2012, While this news doesn’t affect us directly, it looks some folks in Japan have it bad with the carrier KDDI. It has been reported that the carrier recently started pushing adverts directly to Android devices of its customers after a [...]
Robots help farm Japan’s disaster zone
01/20/2012, It is nearly a year since the mega disaster which comprised an earthquake and a tsunami hit Japan, wiping out entire villages in the process while killing thousands of people with its path of destruction that also turned once-fertile farmland [...]
Slim your chin with this crazy device from Japan
01/20/2012, While Japan must be commended for coming up with some of the crazier inventions, and having this resilient mindset that allows them to bounce back from hardship and disaster easily, they do, too, come up with their fair share of [...]
Samsung Galaxy S2 WiMAX announced for Japan
01/17/2012, It feels like Samsung isn’t ever going to run out of Galaxy S2 phones to make. The company has announced just announced a new variant of the Galaxy S2, this time it’s headed for Japan’s KDDI au and it features [...]
Sony Xperia arco HD and Xperia NX announced for Japan
01/12/2012, In addition to the new phones announced at CES 2012 this week, Sony has announced two new devices for the Japanese market as well. Called the Xperia arco HD, it will be the follow up to the original Xperia arco [...]
PlayStation Vita prices expected to drop?
01/04/2012, The PlayStation Vita definitely is an impressive piece of hardware, but despite all the new bells and whistles that the console brings, it isn’t selling like hot cakes in Japan. The device has only been in sale for two weeks [...]
Robot says no problem to walking through sand
01/03/2012, If you are still hugely impressed by the Asimo robot from Honda or the PETMAN project that seemingly cannot be toppled over no matter how hard of a kick you give it, then you might wonder whether the former is [...]
Robots wrestlers make entertaining fights
12/28/2011, It will be many years before we get giant-sized robot battles like those in the movie Real Steel, but if you’re looking for something on a smaller scale, you won’t have to look very far. The folks over in Japan [...]
Vending machine in Japan dispenses drinks and WiFi
12/28/2011, Vending machines typically dispense foodstuff, such as drinks and snacks, but what about one that dispenses WiFi? Well, technically it does not actually dispense WiFi, but Tokyo-based Asahi Soft Drinks recently took the wraps off a new vending machine that [...]
Japan’s top 3 mobile carriers to support global NFC standard
12/22/2011, As of late, there has been a lot of talk about NFC technology making their way into our smartphones, but until some sort of standard has been established, it will be hard to encourage adoption by users. So much so [...]
Car seats that can prevent grand theft auto
12/21/2011, If you think that the current slew of car security systems fail to impress you, this new car security system from the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology in Tokyo might just do the trick. Some researchers have come up with [...]
Vending Machine 2.0 in Japan has Full HD display and facial recognition
12/20/2011, Basically, vending machines are pretty dumb – they need not have any form of smart features after all, as all they do is receive whatever dough you put in, and in return, will “spit out” the product of your choice [...]
