Technology
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Self-Generating, Battery-less Remote Control For TV
NEC Electronics and Onryoku Hatsuden developed a prototype [J] of remote control which is powered by the movement of user’s button-push actions. User actions produce electrical energy, and …
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Real-Time Drawing Collaboration Service Cacoo Breaks Out of Beta
Fukuoka-based nulab, Inc. [ja] launched a real-time collaboration tool for drawing diagrams called Cacoo. With its real-time synchronization technology, you can edit files on Cacoo while other team …
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Digital Content Expo 2009: AR & VR Applications Come Together (2/2)
Continued from the previous blog post on Digital Content Expo 2009. Pull-Navi (The head mount device to navigate a holder by pulling his ears) (Developed by Kajimoto Laboratory, the University of …
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Digital Content Expo 2009: AR & VR Applications Come Together (1/2)
Last week, there was an annual event called Digital Content Expo 2009 at Miraikan, Japan’s national museum of emerging science and innovation located in the Tokyo waterfront area, which …
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KDDI To Increase Tribrid Powered Cellphone Base Stations To Reduce CO2 Emissions
Japan’s no.2 cellphone carrier KDDI au announced to start the deployment of a new power control system to their cellphone base stations as to switch the power sources to three ways of solar …
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IBM Research Lab in Tokyo Develops Technology to Control Reading Flow
Researchers at IBM Research - Tokyo is working on a way to easily arrange the reading flow of screen readers and mobile devices. With the visual editor technology they are developing, webmasters can …
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Emoji/Manga Relation Explained Fully
You might have heard about that Gmail and iPhone has added Japan originated emoticon, Emoji, set. You may know that Google has been promoting those “letters” into Unicode standard. Filing …
