Category: Korea/Japan Week
Korea/Japan Week: Kim Jong-Il boasts he's an 'internet expert'
Well, well, well, it looks like Kim Jong-Il fancies himself as a bit of an ‘internet expert’. Funny that, considering most of North Korea doesn’t have electricity in the evenings.
Jong-Il recently met with the South Korean President, Roh Moo-Hyun (only the second time North and South Korean leaders have ever met), and one of their topics of conversation happened to be the internet. When Moo-Hyun broached the subject of allowing South Korean companies located within the North Korean…
Korea/Japan Week: Samsung's touchscreen mobile phone recommender
How do you decide what new phone to buy? Well, it depends on whether you drink wine or beer. Whether you put your trousers or shirt on first in the morning. Whether you like handbags or console gaming.
A nifty touchscreen gadget in Samsung's Anycall Studio store in Seoul uses these questions to decide what phone you should buy. See how I fared in the video below (yes, I accidentally said I was a woman). It's hard to see this sort of tech appearing in Carphone Warehouse any time soon, but you never know…
Korea/Japan Week: Faltima 010 – LP to CD with the press of a button
There's so many ways of converting LPs to a digital format these days, but nearly everyone requires a computer, some software and a good half hour with an instruction book. Not the Faltima 010. New to the Japanese market,…
