"Kakuchoushi Pantsu"(file extension underwear) with "zip", "exe", "php" and "log" underwear for men from Okinawan company Monolith Store [J]. 1575 yen(US$21).
Women's underpants are said to be coming soon as well.
via Slashdot Japan [J]
CyberAgent, [J] which manages “Ameba," has begun to offer the second installation of their English conversation study application series for iPhone, “Moshi Kareshi Ga Gaikokujin Dattara Eikaiwa” (If Your Boyfriend was a Foreigner English Conversation), “Moshi Kanojo Ga Gaikokujin Dattara Eikaiwa” [J] (If your girlfriend was a foreigner English Conversation).
Although the price is set for 250 yen for download, until August 10th it will be on sale for the discount price of 170 yen.
“Moshi Kanojo Ga Gaikokujin Dattara Eikaiwa” (girlfriend) is an application which allows one to strengthen English ability while enjoying a romance drama type of story, based on the question, “what would I do if my lover were a foreigner?” Players select one of three foreigner characters, then follow along the progress of each one’s story. Players talk on the phone with their selected partner once a day, can drill their listening skills by following the conversation, and can learn 300 English idioms by practicing and repeating phrases from the conversation in three types of different quizzes.
Download “If my Girlfriend was a Foreigner” here:
Android version release is planned in September.
Translation licensed by VSMedia [J]
Saitama-based company Pocara [J] released a new iPhone social camera application "Nailapp", dedicated for nail decoration lovers.
We covered some geeky nail-arts by Japanese girls before. As well as other countries, there are not so many ladies in industry so having those techy nail art may show how popular nailing in Japan.
Must-have feature for Japanese girls, you can decorate your nail photos,
You can share your nail photo on Twitter from the app, too.
The app supports both English and Japanese, is priced $2.99 but for the first 100,000 users provided for free. Android version is also under development.
August 6 was a day when the atomic bomb was dropped to Hiroshima by the U.S. Army. Hidenori Watanave Laboratory at Tokyo Metropolitan University launched pluralistic digital archive “The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Archive”.
http://hiroshima.mapping.jp/ (English and Japanese)
“The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Archive” is a pluralistic digital archive using Google Earth to display on it the materials gained from such sources as the Hiroshima peace memorial museum, the Hiroshima Jogakuin gaines association and the Hachioji atomic bomb survivors association. You can watch survivor's note, interview video and photos here.
They launched "Nagasaki Archive"(English and Japanese) as well as this last year. Please check this, too.
GREE [J] has announced that their mobile device social platform in August has exceeded 130 million users worldwide, achieving 107 million users outside of Japan.
The number of GREE’s users is a total of the Japanese “GREE,” combined with the social game platform primarily developed for America, Europe, and China, “OpenFeint,” whose user number has been expanding by 2.8 people per second and has reached 107 million in August. GREE’s user number at the end of June was 26.41 million users, and has expanded up to collectively 130 million users in the world.
GREE aims to be the web service with the greatest number of users in the world, driving global expansion as a social platform specialist offering social games with killer contents.
Original article on VSMedia [J]
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