All the stories tagged with japan
Machine To Turn Your Office Paper Into Toilet Paper
01/29/2010, Do you think that there is too much paper being wasted in your office? Well, the smart folks over in a Japanese company called Oriental have come up with a machine called White Goat. If you’re wondering what a machine [...]
Brother SV-70 document viewer
01/29/2010, Most new products released are often better versions of their predecessors, but Brother of Japan takes the road less traveled with the SV-70 document viewer which is a lesser version of the SV-100B. It shares most of the same features [...]
Bandai Japan launches GNO3 Gundam USB flash drive
01/27/2010, Bandai Japan has rolled out the GNO3 Gundam USB flash drive which will come in a various capacities, presumably 1GB, 2GB and 4GB. It will also come pre-loaded with the GN03 game, allowing you to have some downtime from your [...]
EV Mini Sport Is Powered By Electricity
01/26/2010, Japan’s Tajima Motor Corp has unveiled its latest electric vehicle, the EV Mini Sport. It might look like a mini Formula One car, but its top speed of 43 miles per hour ensures that you won’t be winning any races [...]
Century Japan USB 3.0 HDD Stage Rack
01/26/2010, There is a new iteration of the Century Japan USB 3.0 HDD Stage Rack, and this one differs from last November’s release with the inclusion of a vertical door that allows you to slide your 3.5″ SATA hard drive in [...]
Sony Memory Stick With Transfer Jet Introduced In Japan
01/20/2010, We’ve mentioned the Transfer Jet technology to you a while back, but in case you forgot, it’s a short-range point-to-point communications protocol, allowing you to transfer files wirelessly at speeds of up to 560Mbps by holding the devices close to [...]
Robot hummingbird developed
12/28/2009, Robots seem to be the future, and Japanese researchers at Chiba University have come up with a robot that resembles the tiny hummingbird in many aspects, where it tips the scales at less than an ounce while flying in a [...]
Inoki Matsuri GPS navigation system
12/22/2009, To each his own, and while folks Stateside might think that rapper Snoop Dogg’s voice on a GPS is cool, those in Japan would find that the equivalent is an Inoki Matsuri GPS. This Japanese pro wrestler is the idol [...]
Robotic Muscle Suit
12/18/2009, The robotic Muscle Suit developed by boffins at the Kobayashi Lab of Tokyo University of Science is a wearable robot of sorts, where two options are available. One of them augments the muscles in your lower back, targeting blue-collared workers [...]
Debt alarm clock
12/17/2009, Forget about catching up on your sleep debt – this alarm clock requires you to put in money just to shut it up, making you “bribe” your way through those hard-to-wake-up mornings. Meant to look like the national debt ticker, [...]
Traffic light alarm clock
12/17/2009, Do you loathe the sounds of morning rush hour traffic, with impatient drivers honking their way through? If that’s the case and you find it hard to wake up, then the traffic light alarm clock might be just the tonic [...]
Marine creature robots
12/09/2009, Masamichi Hayashi, president of marine education establishment kyg-lab, certainly walks the talk by hand-crafting more than 100 robotic marine creatures using nothing but recycled items including plastic bottles, food containers, styrofoam, raincoats, and windshield wiper motors! This self-taught roboticist also [...]
Fingerprint scanner fooled
12/08/2009, Lin Ring had a $14,600 surgical fingerprint switching procedure which managed to bypass security scanners at the airport, but sharp-eyed immigration officials managed to notice scars on her fingers before catching on onto her game. Apparently, prints from Ring’s left [...]
