[Hands-On] Pentax K-01 MILC Camera Designed by Marc Newson
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Pentax Ricoh Imaging have developed the Pentax K-01, a mirrorless interchangable lens camera, designed by the world-famous Australian industrial designer, Marc Newson. “In most mirrorless cameras, the fact that there’s no m[...]
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NICT demonstrate the World’s Largest Full HD Glasses-Free 3D Display
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NICT, in collaboration with JVC Kenwood, has developed a 200″ auto-stereoscopic Full HD 3D display which shows video from 57 different angles. This means multiple people can walk around in front of the screen and see around corne[...]
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Actroid-F Robot Gets A Brother And An Eye Implant
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AIST has developed a male version of its android robot Actroid-F, which was first shown to the public last year. These human-like robots imitate the movements of the people they are watching, and are currently being placed as observers[...]
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Japan getting new Panasonic full HD 3D home theater projector this fall
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Although Panasonic is known for its line of home theater equipment, until now there hasn’t been a 3D projector from the company that offered more than a 720p resolution. That recently changed when Panasonic unveiled the PT-AE7000[...]
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Let’s Visit Tokyo – Too HOT!
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Sorry folks but it is WAY too hot here in Japan for me to shoot our usual let’s Visit Tokyo series, so let’s take a break until the weather cool down shall we?
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Japan new super Hero… Testicle-Man!
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Totally out of topic but I could not resist sharing with you these photos of a new promotional character for Japanese “Genki Drink” Testicle-Man! To be very honest with you I made-up the “Testicle-man” thing, but I don’t know what the [...]
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Japanese farmer sold a Black-rind watermelon for up to 300,000 Yen ($3800 USD)
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Japanese love Suicas (Watermelons) and apparently their love for this delicious fruits! Indeed, the Mainichi Daily News in Japan reported that a Black-rind watermelon from an Hokkaido farmer fetched a winning bid price of 300,000 Yen, [...]
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Let’s Visit Tokyo – Osaki
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There is in any city in the world an area that really does not fit in, a place where whatever people try to do it will never work, and Osaki seems to me like one of this place. Osaki feel like a place that nobody really cares, people p[...]
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Japan is planning to cover all its new Building with Solar Panels
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According to AFP, Japan official are considering to actively enforce the installation of Solar Panels on every new structures in Japan either Houses or New building by 2030. While we did not hear anything official yet on this matter, t[...]
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Let’s Visit Tokyo – Toda in Izu
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The Let’s Visit Tokyo series is back and we hope for good, but since we do not like to do things like they should, we will not visit a specific area of Tokyo today but rather a small little beach and temple located in Toda City in Izu,[...]
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Kawaii shojo helps you recover from the big earthquake
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Latest news from Otobank Inc., the release of Rodoku Shojo – Story Time Girl. It is a program focused on “entertainment for readers,” in which a girl in a school uniform recites a story just for you! “Rodoku girl” mea[...]
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‘Wii 2′ to be revealed at E3 in June, coming 2012
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Early this morning Nintendo revealed that the successor to its popular Wii will be coming next year. There have been many rumors leading up to this, as it is also rumored that the new video game system will be codenamed Project Cafe, b[...]
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Let’s Visit Tokyo – Ishigaki
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Things are slowly going back to normal here in Japan and we hope to be able to soon resume our weekly “Let’s Visit Tokyo” series and to provide you with your weekly fix of video! Meanwhile here you are a rather long video I shot last w[...]
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Are Japan aid programs really helping Japan?
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By now, most of you know about the Japanese Red Cross, which is putting it’s heart and soul to help people whose homes and possessions were destroyed by the tsunami’s destructive force. It’s logical after large-scale [...]
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Pixar working on an Adaptation of Totoro for Xmas 2011? – April Fool Warning -
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Not sure what to expect here and if I am quite found of Pixar’s work I just worried when someone is talking about working on a modern adaptation of my favorite Anime. Anyway according to JapanCinema.net, Pixar is planning to release it[...]
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Joe is Japanese and he is Back for a good cause!
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Back in 2007 we stumble upon a nice little teaser of an upcoming Anime: Joe is Japanese. Anyway we loved the Teaser, we loved the spirit behind the character of Joe Mc Cunney and when we received an email from the guys behind this Anim[...]
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Hatsune Miku aids in Japanese support relief
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Just announced by Mikatan’s blog, Good Smile company will be producing a nendoroid edition (cute-ified mini PVC figurines) of the famous Japanese vocaloid Hatsune Miku. After the earthquake hit Eastern Japan a couple of weeks ago[...]
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DOCOMO and KT Agree to Launch Cross-border NFC Services
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NTT Docomo, one of Japan’s 3 biggest players in the telecom market, recently announced an agreement with Korea’s leading telecom operator KT Corporation, to use their NFC-technologies (Near field communication) for cross-bo[...]
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Japanese iPad 2 Fans Turn Attention and Piggy Banks Toward the Relief Effort
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With iPad 2 releases going ahead around the world as originally scheduled tomorrow, spare a thought for the iPad loving masses in Japan, who were recently told that in light of the Great Tohoku-Kanto Earthquake, that release of the iPa[...]
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Amazing collection of pictures on the Big Picture about this week-end tragic events in Japan
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If you want to grasp what is going on in Japan, we strongly advise you to go and check the Big Picture on Boston.com where they have an impressive collection of… really sad pictures but it will give you the raw fact that you may look f[...]
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Fukushima Dai-Ichi: How a nuclear power plant works
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Although we’re not nuclear scientists here, we felt this thead might be of help for al those who wish to keep a clear interpretation on what your local news broadcast is announcing. A major number of high end press agencies was a[...]
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