Tokyo-based Juki Corporation is going to sell an anti-sleep system “Sleep Buster” for driver in 157,500 yen (US$2,000) in February 2012.

The product keeps collecting a biological signals in the driver’s heartbeat rate and pulse wave sensor, which are built into the driver’s seat, shows seven levels (concentration, relaxation, distraction, fatigue, drowsiness, physical deconditioning, etc.) of driver’s status, alert the driver to stop driving both by sound and display. It detects the transition of the driver’s mode from “awake” to “sleep” about 10 minutes before the driver really starts sleeping, which is expected to stop accidents.

With the management software “Human Tachometer”, planned to be released in April 2012, automobile carriers will be able to track their drivers’ health conditions, and other status changes such like drunk driving during their work.

“Sleep Buster” is developed by Delta Tooling Co., University of Tokyo, Oita University and Shimane Institute of Health Science.

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Cyber Agent’s Ameba, one of Japan’s largest blogging service with thousands of celebrity blogs and virtual community around Ameba Pigg, announced on its staff blog [J] that Ameba services got illegal access, and some of its users are seeing trouble that they can not log in and look withdrawn the service since December 24 night.

The blog said that there are no data loss both on blogs and Pigg. They have been working to recover the troubled IDs. They also reported that there were no invalid usage of its virtual currency Ame-gold or leak of members privacy information.

Ameba is to run an emergency maintenance by stopping the whole service for 6 hours, from 2 a.m. to 8 a.m. December 26.

Asahi reported [J] that the number of members affected by this attack was 50,000. The total number of registered Ameba ID is said around 20 million. CyberAgent consulted the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

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