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| Feb 27, 2014 | Leaked: Just before Bitcoin catastrophe, MtGox dreamed of riches | Antana reader comments 52 with 40 posters participating
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| Jun 13, 2012 | Webcam System Models Your Movements And Emotions On A Lifelike Avatar | A new system created at Keio University will help add lifelike motion capture and emotion-sensing to apps, games, and design programs by scanning your face and body for cues. The system works on any PC and can recreate all of your facial ex... |
| Jul 13, 2011 | Video: Japanese Robot Talks Like A Human | Update July 14, 2011: much better video now available (please see below).
We’re one step closer to the Robocalypse: a research team at Japan’s Kagawa University has developed a robot that’s able to “speak” like a human being. While talking ... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Giant VR Helmet Is Very 90s, Yet Way Cooler | You might remember trying on one of these big-ass VR helmets ten or fifteen years ago, maybe at a big arcade or some sort of tech show. They were pretty cool, but were mainly used for plain orientation of the head in the game; you had joyst... |
| Jun 30, 2011 | For iPhone 4: Japanese Beetle Case | You look for a case for your iPhone 4 but those Hello Kitty ones we showed earlier this week are too girly-girly for you? Then here’s a (quite nasty) alternative: a case with a plastic Dokkiri, a Japanese beetle, glued to it.
The covers are... |
| Jun 27, 2011 | Sony Officializes Its New Z Series Laptops, With Quasi-Light Peak-USB Port | Last month saw the introduction of a new Sandy Bridge-enabled S series from Sony, and now we see their more powerful, full-on Z series get a boost. The new Zs have a standard (not low-voltage) Core i7, 256GB SSD, and a 13.1″ screen at 1600×... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | Robotic Hug-Jacket Is Somewhere Between Depressing And Therapeutic | Now, I’m going to be honest here, the way this thing is pitched (“Sense-Roid provides you a passionate tactile communication with ‘YOURSELF'”) isn’t really the right way to go about it. People don’t hug themselves, not because they can’t (y... |
| May 12, 2011 | Discussion Table: Pioneer's (Awesome) Take On Microsoft's Surface (Video) | Yesterday, Pioneer unveiled the WWS-DT101 Discussion Table [JP], which is essentially the company’s answer to Microsoft’s Surface – just bigger and better. The main component here is the 52-inch multi-touch “interactive” LCD display with fu... |
| May 11, 2011 | Video: Robot Lightsaber Duel | If you’re a robot otaku who happens to be a Star Wars otaku, too, then this video is for you. Japanese robot maker Yaskawa recently showcased its Motoman 7-axis robo arms at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Shangha... |
| May 9, 2011 | D9500: Samsung Rolls Out 75-Inch LED 3D TV | Samsung officially announced [KOR] the D9500 today, a 75-inch LCD 3D TV with LED backlight, the biggest of its kind. That is pretty cool, but the downside is that users will need to wear active shutter 3D glasses to view pictures in 3D.
The... |
| May 3, 2011 | Casio Rolls Out miffy2011xEXILIM Special Edition Camera | First it was Astro Boy last month, now its popular Dutch cartoon bunny miffy that gets a special edition Casio Exilim camera [JP]. Technically, the so-called miffy2011xEXILIM is based on the EXILIM EX-Z800 Casio introduced last summer, but ... |
| Apr 28, 2011 | Korean Telecom and grocery chain Lotte offer NFC payments | According to Akihabara News, NFC has become a reality in Korea. The story says that Lotte Co. Ltd, one of the largest grocery chains in Japan and South Korea, has begun accepting mobile payments using near field communications (NFC) at the ... |
| Apr 26, 2011 | Asahi Glass Develops World's Thinnest Glass Substrate For Touchscreens | What’s almost as important as sturdy touchscreens? Thin touchscreens, and Tokyo-based Asahi Glass can now claim the bragging rights for having developed [press release in English, PDF] the world’s thinnest soda-lime glass substrate for touc... |
| Apr 26, 2011 | The Sony Freestyle Hybrid PC And Ultimate Mobile PC Are Likely Sony's Next-Gen Touchscreen Windows Netbooks | Forget Sony’s S1 and S2 for a hot minute. Sony also revealed a more traditional product line for the firm: The Freestyle Hybrid PC and the Ultimate Mobile PC. Akihabara News notes they’re “scheduled to come anytime soon.” They’re said to ru... |
| Apr 22, 2011 | LIFEBOOK S761/C: Fujitsu Shows Notebook With Integrated Pico Projector | It took them a while, but PC makers are finally building notebooks with integrated pico projectors: that’s the main bullet point the LIFEBOOK S761/C that Fujitsu announced [JP] for the Japanese market has to offer. The projector replaces th... |
| Apr 18, 2011 | Gigantic AR Card Creates Life-Sized Miis (Kind Of) | Here’s something to save up your coins for, at least if you’re in Japan. Nintendo’s “Club Nintendo” rewards program lets you trade product registration and stuff for little rewards, like a Game & Watch replica or a case for your DS. And... |
| Apr 6, 2011 | K-Touch W700 Superphone Is China-Only | Evo 4G Shmevo 4G – how about a Tegra 2 Android 2.2 smartphone with 8GB of storage, 3.8-inch screen, and 720p video support and FM radio, GPS, and WVGA resolution. This old girl costs about $540 in Hong Kong.
Obviously you can’t get this thi... |
| Apr 1, 2011 | SIM-LEI: Japan's Newest Electric Car Reaches 333km Driving Range, And It's Fast | In December last year, we reported that a spin-off startup at Keio University in Tokyo has teamed up with a total of 34 Japanese companies and municipalities to develop a new electric car. And now the startup, SIM Drive Corporation, has ann... |
| Mar 9, 2011 | Yamaha Creates Voice Masking System To Quiet Discrete Conversations | If you’ve ever been in a situation where discretion is important when speaking, then you may want some help from this guy. It’s the Yamaha VSP-1 and it is a little speaker device that plays sounds to cancel speech — up to 89% effective — al... |
| Mar 8, 2011 | Mitsubishi Elevator Detects Wheelchair Users, Can Be Voice-Controlled | Great invention: Mitsubishi Electric has developed an elevator [JP] that can not only be fully voice-controlled but also automatically detects people sitting in wheelchairs. In other words, the new system, dubbed “Touchless Call”, allows us... |
| Mar 7, 2011 | Necono: Cat-Shaped Digital Camera (Video) | A digital camera that’s shaped like a cat? That’s what Tokyo-based Superheadz announced today with the so-called Necono [link in English]. The Necono is being marketed as “No longer a camera, more like a pet.”, but it is a fully-functioning... |
| Mar 3, 2011 | Krator Desktop Speakers Inspired By Sydney Opera House | Distinctive yet tasteful desktop speakers are hard to come by; I was always slightly jealous of my Mac friends and their cool Harmon Kardon Soundsticks (not that they were only for Mac, but you know what I mean), since the best PC speakers ... |
| Feb 23, 2011 | Sega Toys Shows 3D Spray Art Toy | The 3D craze we’re currently witnessing isn’t limited to the home electronics market and movie theaters, it seems: Sega Toys in Japan announced [JP] the so-called 3D Spray Art Pro, a toy that makes it possible to spray “graffiti” on paper, ... |
| Feb 21, 2011 | The iASUS Stealth Bluetooth Throat Mic Instantly Makes You Hardcore | Live out your SOCOM fantasy with the Stealth throat mic from iASUS Concepts. It picks up sound directly from the throat thanks to properly-placed sensors just like the military models. This of course would be perfect for loud environments s... |
| Feb 21, 2011 | First Pics Of The World's Thinnest Smartphone, The NEC Medias, Leak | NEC is apparently to unveil the “world’s thinnest smartphone” (7.7mm) on Thursday, if a “leak” covered on a Japanese blog today is to be believed. That leak, reported today by Akihabara News, is actually a few days old (see this Japanese bl... |
| Feb 16, 2011 | NEC Technology Actively Cancels Out Zoom Noise In Digital Camera Movies | I’m not sure zoom noise was really the most pressing concern (I’m more worried about feature bloat and low-light capability, personally), but apparently NEC thought it was worth looking into. They’ve created some tech, apparently already em... |
| Jan 31, 2011 | LG Continues The Thin-Bezel Love With New 47WV30 LED TVs | We all know LG hates bezels. Or loves thin bezels. One of those things. At any rate they are eliminating the thick bezels we all have on our TVs and monitors and replacing them with thinner ones. I love the trend, personally, but it takes m... |
| Jan 3, 2011 | Pioneer Japan Outs Stylish Cordless Phones | Everybody may own at least one cell phone nowadays, but that doesn’t mean fixed line networks are dead. Case in point: Pioneer Japan’s TF-FN2000 [JP], a new series of cordless phones that will be available in black, white and red.
Technical... |
| Dec 21, 2010 | Is This The iPad Mini? | Is that man right there holding an iPad mini? He seems to think so. But seeing how this pic originated in the fertile gadget fields of China, it’s more likely to be a smaller knock-off than the real deal. But if it is real , DreamerJimmy be... |
| Dec 1, 2010 | Multi-Card SD And MicroSD Readers From Elecom | These little gadgets are… very practical. I’m surprised this kind of thing isn’t more common. Basically you’ve just got one doodad with room for multiple cards of the same type. So if you need to duplicate or transfer files from one to the ... |
| Dec 1, 2010 | Bring On The Quantum Dot LED Displays | While it’s a little early to throw away your brand new (Black Friday-bought) LCD TV, there will come a time when even the latest local-dimming LCD tech will be obsolete. And this quantum dot LED display tech being researched by QD Vision ma... |
| Nov 16, 2010 | Sony Announces HandyCam NXCAM, An E-Mount Super-35 Sensor Camcorder | http://www.sony.co.jp/video3/player.swf
Sony will be showing off a new Handycam tomorrow, the NXCAM. It’s a “for professional” camera that uses E-mount lenses (we’ve seen them in the NEX series and Sony’s last interchangeable lens Handycam,... |
| Nov 10, 2010 | Elecom Outs Bluetooth 3.0 Mouse | Elecom’s new Bluetooth 3.0 laser mouse will come with an 800/1600 DPI resolution and a quite compact size of 74.3×52.3×33.4mm. The little thing will weigh 43g without the 2 AAA batteries. As you probably aware BT 3.0 is fast and way better ... |
| Nov 2, 2010 | Great Fixed 3D Glasses On Konami's Road Fighters Arcade Game | The arcade has traditionally been a place where temporary discomfort and chintziness have been tolerated for a look at the latest technology. Strap yourself into an uncomfortable bucket seat or wield a dirty, poorly calibrated light gun! It... |
| Oct 20, 2010 | Samsung To Make Prescription 3D Glasses | One of the common complaints about 3D is that it’s essentially calibrated for those among us lucky enough to have perfect or near-perfect vision. Even if you wanted to try putting the glasses over your existing glasses or contacts, there’s ... |
| Oct 15, 2010 | Handmade Natural Bamboo Case/Cradle For The iPad | The iPad is surely seeing no shortage of accessories. So far, we have seen weird, expensive, and potentially useful ones. But what about a “handmade natural bamboo case/cradle” that’s tailor-made for the device?
Tokyo-based Geek Stuff 4U ju... |
| Oct 5, 2010 | Hitachi Announces Hybrid Optical Drive With SSD | Hitachi announced a new optical drive, a Hybrid SATA III which combines the optical technology with SSD.
Details are non-existent, but combining an optical drive and with an SSD drive and you’re going to have one hot device. Hitachi announc... |
| Sep 20, 2010 | How nice, a pink Samsung Galaxy S that comes with make-up! | Well. The Galaxy S Femme. I’d say this isn’t going to end well (shades of Della), but in Korea, this might just be one of the default trims. I presume it’s the international version of the many-faced smartphone.
It’s a deal with Aveda, in c... |
| Aug 30, 2010 | First Korean Android Tablet Released | Korea has their first Android tablet. Called the “Identity TAB”, the new device runs a 1GHz Snapdragon cpu, and sports 8GB of internal memory. The tablet has a 7-inch screen, a DMB TV tuner, gyro-sensor, a 3 megapixel camera, and an SD card... |
| Aug 30, 2010 | Now On Sale In Japan: Hand-Knitted Super Mario Sweaters | I am not sure how many of these will actually get sold, but starting today, the Japanese can lay their hands on Super Mario-branded sweaters [JP]. Buyers can choose between four versions in two colors, and the sweaters actually do look quit... |
| Aug 6, 2010 | Neckphones: Takara Tomy's Cute Travel Pillow Speakers | Takara Tomy in Japan is offering what they say is the perfect companion for this summer: the Neckphones [JP], travel pillows (kind of) that feature an integrated speaker. The devices are waterproof, making them suitable for use in the bath ... |
| Jun 7, 2010 | Video: Sharp's 30-screen display system boasts world’s thinnest frame width | Sharp today in Japan presented the PN-V601 [press release in English], a multi.screen display system, which – at 6.5mm – features the world’s thinnest bezel separation. In other words, Sharp managed to design the display, which consists of ... |
| May 20, 2010 | Hitachi Maxell develops magnetic tape cartridge with 50TB capacity | Just in January this year, we reported about a very special magnetic tape that was developed by Fujifilm and IBM and that stores a whopping 35TB of data. But yesterday Hitachi Maxell has announced that its new high-capacity magnetic tape ev... |
| May 20, 2010 | Carnaby: Pioneer's very special car navigation mini robot (videos) | What do you get when you cross a car navigation system with a wacky mini robot? You get Carnaby [JP], a very special piece of hardware developed by Pioneer and robot venture iXs. The in-car robot may look weird, but it actually serves a goo... |
| May 10, 2010 | South Korea first to terrestrially broadcast HD 3DTV | Conclusive evidence that South Korea is the greatest country on Earth: it will begin terrestrial (that’s over-the-air) 3D TV broadcasts in a few weeks. Better still, it’ll be in full high-definition. How long do you think it’s going to be b... |
| Apr 15, 2010 | Fujitsu shows off new prototype e-book reader | So fair warning, there’s not a whole lot of detail on this one. Fujitsu just showed off their latest e-book reader prototype at a trade show in Japan. It probably won’t hit the US, but expect to see it in Japan later this year. We’ll keep y... |
| Apr 2, 2010 | Robot for your computer: Honda releases Asimo desktop widget | There are many humanoids out there, but Honda’s two-legged, super-advanced Asimo is certainly one of the coolest. And if you’re a hardcore robot geek, you can get it now on your computer desktop via a new Adobe Air app.
The widget can be in... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | Move over Humping USB Dogs. Here comes the Dodobongo USB Dog. | The Humping USB Dogs became so popular 2 or 3 years ago that the maker, Japan-based Cube, not only started selling the silly things internationally but also added a plethora of other animals to the line-up. And now, the same company has ano... |
| Feb 16, 2010 | Mitsubishi now wants to upscale your HD to 4K | As a guy who likes his image quality, I have to say I am shocked, shocked at this ridiculous trend. I think the manufacturers of TVs and Blu-ray players are preying on consumers’ ignorance with the whole upscaling thing. Sure, it’s good to ... |
| Feb 12, 2010 | Video editing keyboard costs $272 – that’s one expensive jog wheel | The jog wheel. A must for anyone who edits video on a regular basis. Well, maybe not a “must” but definitely handy. They’re expensive, though, as evidenced by this otherwise normal keyboard that costs $272 thanks to the attached jog wheel.
... |
| Feb 12, 2010 | Thanko's Spy Flashlight records video in HD (video) | It looks like Tokyo-based acessory maker Thanko is trying to carve out a new niche for themselves, spy gadgets (apart from insane USB gadgets). The newest addition to their spy equipment lineup is the LED Spy Light HD [JP], an LED flashligh... |
| Feb 4, 2010 | The JXD V3 does gaming, plays media, takes 5MP pics, gets the ladies | How come Japan always gets all the fun toys? Like this JXD V3. It can play most modern roms along with nearly every video and audio format. One look at it and you know that it will bring you some serious geek cred in your computer science c... |
| Jan 25, 2010 | XLR-to-USB cable brings you one step closer to music stardom | You’ve been working on your music career for 13 years now. Take things to the next level by purchasing a higher-quality microphone. You know, one with an XLR input. Ask any touring musician about microphones. They’ll all be like, “Dude. XLR... |
| Jan 12, 2010 | Awesome Sega Genesis and Space Invaders business card cases | If you’re an old-school gamer, the Sega Genesis (known as Sega Mega Drive outside North America) sure does have a special place in your heart. And if your current job requires you to give away business cards from time to time, this new busi... |
| Jan 8, 2010 | GREEN SLIM: Casio announces pretty, eco-friendly friendly projectors | One of the few product announcements by a major electronics maker that’s not been made at the CES: Casio has unveiled the XJ-A series, which consists of nine projectors that are not only pretty cool-looking but also eco-friendly: The compan... |
| Jan 4, 2010 | Buffalo Japan sells very pretty external HDD | If you ever wanted to watch movies stored on your computer (you know, the ones you legally downloaded from the web earlier) in style, Buffalo might have the right device for you. Their HD-AV2.0TU2 [JP], an external HDD, is currently Japan-o... |
| Nov 24, 2009 | The twee-est iPod speakers on the planet | I think we can all agree that these require a collective “aw.” Then again, I’m guessing the sound is somewhat… anemic.
They’re cute, but I prefer the look and sound of my Muji cardboard speakers (–>). Plus, they’re compatible with anythi... |
| Nov 24, 2009 | USB-powered mini Yoda figure | Tokyo-based Cube Works, whose products regularly find their way outside Japan (example: the humping USB dog), has announced a mini Yoda figure (the little green guy from Star Wars) that you connect to your computer’s USB port. The power is ... |
| Nov 20, 2009 | USB-powered Alien figure with illuminated tongue | The Japanese madness for all things USB continues. Today I can give you an Alien figure that you can connect to your computer’s USB port. It then sticks out its nasty tongue at random times, backlit by a spooky red LED. Apart from that, the... |
| Nov 19, 2009 | Wrestling and boxing gong-shaped alarm clocks test your reaction time | Japan and its alarm clocks. We just blogged the bizarre Clockman on Monday, but major Japanese toy maker Banpresto‘s two new models aren’t too normal either. The company has designed alarm clocks using wrestling and boxing gongs as the desi... |
| Nov 17, 2009 | Love-Digi Moving Photo Camera is a portable photo booth – almost (video) | Here’s something yourself or your sister might be particularly interested in: A digital camera that helps you to pretty up pictures taken with it on the go. The so-called Love-Digi Moving Photo Camera [JP] is made by Japanese toymaker Takar... |
| Oct 30, 2009 | Thanko's non-crappy GPS watch | Tokyo-based Thanko, famous for its plethora of USB-enabled gadgets that make no sense whatsoever, has announced a GPS-enabled watch [JP] today. And this device has a USB (2.0) port, too. It’s compatible with Windows XP and Vista.
The so-cal... |
| Oct 26, 2009 | The Future: 3.3mm-thick Samsung TV | If you think about it, you’ll probably only need to hang your flat panel TV on the wall once. Maybe twice. Maybe three times if you really move around a lot, like in the middle of the night when you hear a knock on your door and thank god y... |
| Oct 20, 2009 | These "Crazy Earphones" sure deserve their name | Tokyo-based Solid Alliance is slowly but surely evolving into a serious competitor for Thanko in the wacky gadget department. So far, the company gave us a USB Ninja knife, a USB Terminator 4 skull and a spectacle-shaped USB stick. And now ... |
| Oct 9, 2009 | Numeric keyboard/touchpad combo for notebooks | Japanese gadget maker Elecom has announced the TK-TCT005BK [JP], a combination of a numeric keyboard for notebooks and touchpad supporting gestures. You can switch between both functions by pressing the “Num” button on the top left of the d... |
| Sep 15, 2009 | Korea gets ultra-cute Hello Kitty desktop PC | Japan has its good share of Hello Kitty–branded computers. So it’s only fair that it’s not Japan but Korea that gets a special version of the MiNEW A10, most probably the cutest Hello Kitty computer out there. It’s made by Korean PC maker M... |
| Aug 31, 2009 | New projector houses a DVD player and is cheap, but pretty ugly | Yokohama-based electronics company Kumazaki-Aim has announced a “portable” LED video projector [JP] (size: 268×295×92mm, weight: 2.5kg) that won’t win any design awards but houses a DVD player. Buyers also get a screen (132×25×980mm) for th... |
| Aug 27, 2009 | USB-powered, hand-held Japanese bamboo fan | OK, now this whole USB gadget thing is really getting silly. They’re now producing Japanese bamboo fans that double as USB memory sticks. And this time, “they” aren’t even offered by CrunchGear favorite Thanko, but exclusively and for a non... |
| Aug 25, 2009 | Elecom's tiny 'nanoSSD' SATA drive is cuter than all the Jonas brothers combined | How adorable is that little solid-state SATA drive right there? You just plug it right into the SATA port on your motherboard! Look at you, little man, with all your data! You’re holding an entire operating system — yes you are! Yes you are... |
| Aug 14, 2009 | USB digital microscope with 2MP CMOS sensor | A Japanese company called esupply is selling a cool little microscope [JP] that can be hooked to computers via a microUSB port (Windows only). The device boasts a 2MP CMOS sensor made by Sanyo and features 5x to 150x zoom. Not powerful enou... |
| Aug 12, 2009 | Super-cute Hello Kitty USB flash drive | Sanrio, the company behind the dream of millions of teenage girls around the world, cartoon cat Hello Kitty, is to celebrate the cat’s 35th birthday on November 1st. Reason enough to team up with design USB flash drive maker Mimoco and give... |
| Aug 11, 2009 | Star Wars meets rice: Japanese company sells lightsaber chopsticks | If you happen to both be a Star Wars fan and have a penchant for Far Eastern food, this new gadget might be the right thing for you: lightsaber chopsticks. A Japanese company called Kotobukiya (which also has a US website) is selling three ... |
| Aug 6, 2009 | 64GB SDXC cards to arrive early next year | reader comments 28 with 24 posters participating
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| Jul 23, 2009 | These Pac-Man 30th anniversary Zippos are very cool | Namco’s Pac Man was first released in Japan May 22, 1980, which means the 30th anniversary of the cult game is a good year away. But if it’s Pac-Man, you can never celebrate too early: Starting in November, Namco Bandai, as the company is n... |
| Jul 9, 2009 | Grilled Meat King: Bandai to sell BBQ simulator toy | Just in time for summer, Japan gets a new toy that won’t require you to go out to get the BBQ experience anymore. This actually doesn’t make much sense, but Bandai has announced [JP] an-indoor BBQ simulator toy yesterday, the Yakiniki Ou (r... |
| Jul 1, 2009 | Beautiful chrome puzzle USB key costs 1,000,000 yen | Are you rich and short about 16GB of storage? Buddy, have I got a product for you. The SolidAlliance Mnemosyne USB drive is a beautifully designed little object that not only looks money, but stores your deepest, chromiest secrets (or mp3s)... |
| Jun 25, 2009 | The PhotoFast CR-7200 MicroSDHC RAID-0 CF adapter | Now this is a good idea: RAID together four 16GB MicroSDHC cards for a fast, 64GB Compact Flash card. I guess in theory this is an efficient flash memory solution. You get the speed of MicroSDHC spread over four cards that’s compatible with... |
| Jun 24, 2009 | Buffalo Thumbkey flash drives upped to 16GB | Who doesn’t love the Buffalo Thumbkey Flash Drives? They are so small that they fit snuggly into a USB port with only a little stub sticking out. They’re great. Well, the flash drives just got better now that Buffalo is producing these in 1... |
| Jun 16, 2009 | The Sony brings style to mice with the VGP-BMS10 Bluetooth mouse | Mice might not be the most stylish devices in the computer world. Most of the time ergonomics wins over style as your hand covers it anyway. But this Sony VAIO mouse forgoes the comfort for a drop dead gorgeous look.
Inside, the VGP-BMS10 r... |
| Jun 15, 2009 | Samsung B7610 enters the fray, officially | Today at an event in Singapore, Samsung Korea officially launched four new handsets to the market. The flagship of the four phones introduced was the Samsung B7610, a part of Samsung’s Omnia brand of smartphones. The B7610 comes with a 3.5-... |
| Jun 12, 2009 | Limited edition Gundam Zippos | Even after 30 years, Gundam is as big as ever – literally in Japan. These limited edition Zippos are probably the best way to show your robot love outside of getting some ink. Plus, if a chick compliments it, you know you have keeper. |
| Jun 9, 2009 | Thanko sells "acceptable" HDV pocket video camera | It seems Tokyo-based crap gadget maker Thanko finally managed to come up with a device that’s not (too) crappy. The device in questions is a HDV (not HD, mind you) video camera [JP] measuring 99×53×23mm and weighing just 95g.
The HDCam POMO... |
| Jun 4, 2009 | The LG GD910 watch phone to ship in July | You’re soon going to be able to live out your Dick Tracy fantasy when LG ships out its video-calling watch phone this July.
Folks in Europe will get the first crack at the GD910 on Orange, but soon after Asia, the Middle East, Australia, an... |
| Jun 4, 2009 | NEC announces 43-inch curved LCD for the low, low price of $8,000 | Some people like big cars, some like big guns, and some like big monitors. If you’re a big monitor person, this 43-inch curved LCD with a 32:10 aspect ratio from NEC is right up your alley.
It’s wildly expensive at $8,000 but that just mean... |
| Jun 2, 2009 | Miffy DAP promises music, video, world peace | The Internet has lifted this charming piece of flotsam on our shores, reminding us that MP3 players don’t have to look like monoliths of jet ebony but can, in fact, be shaped like tiny little freaking rabbits with a little rabbit house with... |
| May 26, 2009 | Seiko Epson pave way for 37-inch and larger OLED screens | Yay for Seiko Epson! The corporation just announced a breakthrough in the layering of organic material that should allow for larger OLED screens eventually. The current method, called Vacuum Thermal Evaporation (VTE), has problems producing... |
| May 22, 2009 | This device may or may not upscale your Wii's output | Well here’s another wacky Japanese gadget that you’ll forget about before the end of the day. I say that not because it’s junk, but because it’s so niche you’ll be like “Oh, wow. Now what am I going to eat for lunch?” It’s the Castrade CG-U... |
| May 21, 2009 | Sea & Sea MDX-Pro: Oh, it'll waterproof your Canon 5D Mark II all right | Time to break out the expense account, ladies and gentlemen. This is the Sea & Sea MDX-PRO 5D Mark II. It’s a fancy waterproof cover for the Canon 5D Mark II. It costs ¥280,000, or just under $3,000. Yeah.
As you might imagine, this typ... |
| May 12, 2009 | JVC introduces 8K projector | Because of the growing number of consumer-level cameras with 100-megapixel sensors and camcorders shooting at 4240p, JVC has come out with a new 8K (that’s 8000 horizontal pixels) projector with 10,000 lumens of brightness and a 5500:1 cont... |
| May 4, 2009 | Samsung unveils svelte plasma TV line | Samsung doesn’t care that the plasma market is quickly shrinking. Hells no. In fact, the company just announced the 850 PAVV lineup, which includes a 50- and 58-inch sets that are one inch thick. That’s thin, folks.
These Samsung PDPs do bo... |
| Apr 27, 2009 | Japanese company sells USB-powered mini Zen garden (video) | This is an odd USB gadget that doesn’t come from Thanko for a change. A company called Japan Trust Technology is selling a mini Japanese style garden [JP] (OK, it’s just a couple of plastic bamboos) that includes a watering system and is po... |
| Apr 21, 2009 | Sharp's Mebius PC-NJ70A netbook with LCD trackpad | http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x91plu
Someone in Sharp’s R&D department must have been paying attention when the Internet started mumbling about the MacBook Pro’s potential LCD trackpad. The new Mebius PC-NJ70A netbook comes packing wit... |
| Apr 21, 2009 | Cube H100D portable media player first to output video in 1080i | In the interest of helping you kill time at work or school, we present this gadget from the Far East that you’ll never own. It’s the Cube H100HD, a portable media player that does something no other one can do: it outputs video at 1080i. No... |
| Apr 20, 2009 | SmartTrack Neo: Bootleg multi-touch input device for your Windows PC | Hey there, multi-touch! With this, the SmartTrack Neo [JP], you can add multi-touch capability to your PC. A hot $50 for this life saver.
Yup, simply hook up this gadget to your Windows XP or Vista PC, and you’ll be doing your best iPhone i... |
| Apr 17, 2009 | This USB drive will self-destruct in 24 hours | Remember that British IT guy who left a flash drive with confidential info on millions of Brits on a train? That and like incidents happening every day could have all been avoided if he had one of these cool new self-destructing drives. The... |
| Apr 7, 2009 | Weird PC mouse displays LED messages, cools off through built-in fan | Offered by a Japanese company, slightly over-engineered, USB connection and senseless but kind of cool. What sounds like the typical Thanko product, is offered by another company in Nippon: A computer mouse that can not only display LED mes... |
| Mar 23, 2009 | What recession? The Sanwa throat microphone should improve call quality (but you'll look odd) | Go ahead, walk around your local mall with this Sanwa throat microphone and see what happens. Created by Japan’s Sanwa, and modeled after similar throat microphones used by elite military forces around the world (supposedly), the mic wraps ... |
| Mar 23, 2009 | Samsung announces colorful NC310 netbooks, extended battery good for up to 11 hours | Samsung’s got a new line of netbooks coming soon – the NC310 series — although details are still a bit murky for now. The entire press release is in Korean, but a quick run through Google’s magical translation machine leaves us with words s... |
| Mar 16, 2009 | CrunchDeals: Repolish your iPod's chrome back, ¥2100 (plus airfare) | This isn’t actually a real CrunchDeal, but it is a pretty good bargain if you’re in Japan. It seems that Apple went to a Japanese metalworker named Kobayashi Kazuo to create the shiny aluminum back for its many iProducts. They wanted an 800... |
