Phyzios [J] has released an iOS game application “Battleship Craft,” which uses its own particular physics engine.  Download is free.

“Battleship Craft” is a naval battle game which fuses the fun of manufacturing with real action.  Users use various weapons and block parts in the 3D space to build an original battleship and can engage in battle with other users.  The battleship’s actions use Phyzios’ particular physics engine, and real physical phenomenon such as buoyancy, water resistance, gravity, and so on, are replicated.  Depending on things like the method of fixing screws and the rudder, and the combination and arrangement of parts, the ship’s movements at sea, ebbing and flowing, speed, rotation, stamina, and the like, will change.  In “Battle Mode,” matching takes place via Ad Hoc or Game Center, and you can challenge users from all over the world in real time depending on what’s going on that morning or evening or whenever.  Furthermore, the background music in the game offered by the Marine Self Defense Force (Performance: Marine Self Defence Force Band) uses the marching songs “Battleship” and “ShikiShima Warship”

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Softbank announced today(May 29) that they would ship Pantone 5(107SH) the world’s first smartphone with radiation measure feature in July.

By this Sharp’s made Android 4.0 smartphone, you may measure gamma rays in the 0.05μSv/h to 9.99μSv/h range just by pressing the dedicated button for long. You may let it measure periodically and plot the history on map.

After the Eastern Japan Disasters on March 11, 2011, leaked radioactive from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plants has been worried a lot, and home-use radiation counters are subject to increase demand.

As always as a Japanese phone, it has one-seg TV, wireless-touch e-wallet(Osaifu ketai), bluetooth and infra-red communication, emergency alert and waterproof (PX5／IPX7) feature.

The cellphone also comes with 8 colour variations.

[Update] It’s not “geiger counter” as some major English tech blogs describes, it is said to use a silicon sensor.

Home radiation counters have been causing lots of false rumors by inaccurate usage and wrong interpretations of measured numbers among risk-averse Japanese, who do not believe any measurement provided by government organizations.

There is a background that Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son is showing strong interest in entering alternative energy business. He insists government should subsidize solar power generation business a lot more, which is being discussed now and the suggested aided-price is criticized too high by some people. Softbank said to Nikkei that this function is implemented by Son’s own decision as he received a lot of requests to his Twitter account.

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This week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article.

Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.

• Naver Japan Warns LINE Users Not To Access Unauthorized Third-party User Finder Services
• IC Card Reader Sales Suspended By B-CAS Card Hacking via Buzzap
• Gree Platform Launched For 153 Countries
• 90′s Online Service Nifty Serve Comes Back For One Year – Nifty Serve was a service affiliated with Compuserve
• Weekly Bunshun Reports Gree/Mobage Sponged By Chinese Mafia – it shows the social game companies come into eldery’s sight. TV also reports Kompu-gacha issues to the people who do not use the Internet.
• Lettus Umbrella

  

• 6 Social Game Platformers To Set Kompu Gacha Guideline
• Conf Gacha App, To Collect Apache Web Server Conf(giguration) Commands – another parody. see Konbu Gacha
• Panasonic and some major Japanese Chain now offers wireless charging in 27 locations across Tokyo « Akihabara News [En]

If you want to know any specific news more, but unable to find them in other English blog/media, please let us know.

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Niconico user A0 invented an alarm system for guys who tend to forget to zip up their fly, named “Chakku Shimewasure Boushi Debaisu”(device to prevent from forgetting to close your fly).

(The first one minutes explains how to make it, the demo starts around 1:00.)

By this, you will notice that your fly is wide open when you see yourself in mirror after you have done it, or friends/colleague around you will soon notice by seeing the LED light and tell you.

via ITMedia

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Mapion, [J] is hosting “Kunitori Onigokko 2012” (Country Grab Tag 2012) for “Keitai Kunitori Kassen” [J] (Cell Phone Country Grab Battle), their location based game for mobile phones.  It will run from April 24th until June 11th at 3:00 P.M.

“Country Grab Tag 2012” is an event continuing from the stamp rally in partnership with Tokyu Railway [J] in April of last year.  This time, continuing from the stamp rally game publicly offered by Tokyo express railways and with the cooperation of the Tokyo Bureau of Transportation, [J] the area has expanded to along both the Tokyu line and the Toei Subway.  When you access the 2D barcode of the special posters shown around commercial areas and 15 stations along the Tokyu and Toei Subway lines, a game of tag with the famous character “Jii” from “Cell Phone Country Grab Battle” pops out, and you get to have some location based fun.  There are 3 courses in the stamp rally’s main stage: “Triangle Course,” “Extra Course,” and “Pleasure Course,” and when you achieve success you can get battle experience cards or special game bonuses.  What’s more, “treasure maps” that let you play “treasure hunting stages” are sold at shops along the Tokyku line, and they’re also selling train tickets linked with “Country Grab Tag 2012” during the limited term period.  Details are Here [J].

I Went on a Location Game Trip.  Seek Stamps and Zip Through the Country [J]


”Cell Phone Country Grab Battle” Super Walkthrough Guide Book [J]

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