Tag: Japan
Vision Magane Japan launch the MyDo eyeSonic earphone glasses
Bless the Japanese, the world would be an awful place without their crazy inventions and Hello Kittyfied products.
A company out there, Vision Magane, has announced some new glasses which literally make my eyes bleed just looking at them. The MyDo eyeSonic specs contain bone conduction earphones, so sound vibrations reach…
Learn English with Snoopy and Charlie Brown on new Nintendo DS game
Everyone’s favourite dog, Snoopy, is dog-paddling his way to the DS shortly, in a game that promises to teach users English. Yes, a dog teaching you English. Well, at least it’s not hamsters!
English Lessons With Snoopy allowes gamers to use the stylus to touch all items in a scene, and view the English spelling and pronunciation, triggering animated actions within the scene. Snoopy’s joined by Charlie Brown and the rest of the gang, who can help you through English-training minigames, slide puzzles and even a Charlie Brown dress-up game. So that’ll be several different zig-zag shirts then?…
Eavesdrop on a conversation between the Nintendo President and a Ninty designer
The next best thing to actually having a conversation with the head of Nintendo must be being a fly on the wall, listening to a conversation between the Nintendo Prez Satoru Iwata and Shigesato Itoi (Japanese writer and designer of Nintendo’s Mother RPGs), as they discuss Ninty, and Shigeru Miyamoto in full detail.
Thanks to Itoi, we don’t need to buy expensive spy-microphones to make that dream a reality, as he’s only gone and published the whole conversation on his website! Yup, in English – either he’s brilliant…
Perfect Japanese rice, automated, with Zojirushi's "Ultimate" Rice Cooker
Compared to pasta, or a nice jacket potato, rice can be a bit of a mystery to cook. Those in the know probably use the “absorption method”, hoping that they time the cooking just right so that there’s not a horrible burnt-on sticky mess at the bottom of the pan and crunchy grains of rice at the top.
Unsurprisingly, the Japanese love affair with both technology and rice has come to the rescue, as a highly detailed article at Tech-On! proves.
Believe me, there’s not much you won’t know about cooking perfect, Japanese-style (slightly sweet and sticky) rice once you’ve read it — or indeed, how Zojirushi has perfected a machine to do it automatically.
Japanese researcher claims batteries dangerous. Oh, hai there, Sony!
Someone get Gary, the Idiot Toys battery aficionado on the phone stat! We have some awful news about batteries that will probably render him useless to update his various sites for at least the next three days.
A Japanese researcher is claiming that lithium-ion batteries are dangerous, and not made well enough for the heavy-duty tasks they’re meant to perform. Masataka Wakihara, of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, is calling for a change in design…
Japan developing Internet replacement: rollout by 2020
Though I'm not convinced that trying to replace the Internet is such a good idea, I'm more inclined to take notice when Japan says it's planning to develop such a network, rather than those in the House of Lords. According…
Get bragging rights with a USB mini lamp that glows as you type faster
Bit of a self-indulgent post, this, mostly because I’m hoping someone in Japan can pick one of these USB-powered mini lamps up for me and DHL it over quick-smart. Any stalkers out there? Time to come out of your mothers’ basements and send me presents. Or else, Mum, I guess you’re reading this…feel like spoiling your favourite daughter?
As anyone within a five mile radius of my desktop computer can attest to, my biggest claim to fame in Shiny Towers is that I hold the award for being the world’s loudest typer. I can’t help it, it’s because I’m a swift typer with skillzorz bettering the average courtroom typer…
The curious riddle of PS3 v Wii sales in Japan
More proof that statistics can be used to prove pretty much any view you like. There’ve been several reports on how Wii and PS3 are doing in Japan this week, yet with two considerably different spins on their respective fortunes.
Manga coming to the iPhone
Japanese company Voice Bank has detailed a deal with the Digital Manga Association Japan to format their comic books specially for the iPhone.
Oki Japan introduces iris identification for mobile phones
Oki Japan has just introduced its iris recognition software (or Iris Authentication Middleware, to be more accurate) for Windows Mobile and Symbian-based mobile phones, allowing any mobile with a built-in one megapixel or better camera to be secured.
