Yoichi Ochiai and Keisuke Toyoshima from Tsukuba University developed a car with facial expression – convey your driving intentions and emotions over the car, to communicate with other drivers and around. Humans and vehicles can be unified as one unit by Homunculus. It is based on a new concept of interactions between humans and vehicles.… Continue reading Homunculus: The Car Becomes More ‘You’
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Tokyo Parking Machine As Seen From Onboard Camera
photo © 2005 shibainu | more info (via: Wylio) Roppongi Hills is a central Tokyo landmark, and is well-known as the preferred office location for many top IT companies in Tokyo. Current tenants include Google Japan and Gree, and the likes of Yahoo! Japan, Livedoor, and Rakuten have all had their head offices there in… Continue reading Tokyo Parking Machine As Seen From Onboard Camera
Taglet – Contactless Information Sharing App On Android2.3 NFC
Taglet [J] is a new Android app/service utilizing the latest Android 2.3(Gingerbread)’s new feature – NFC. With the app, you may register any other NFC devices with the service. You may add information like URL, short message, phone number, e-mail address, etc. on each NFC. Then, when you hold your Android over the device, Taglet… Continue reading Taglet – Contactless Information Sharing App On Android2.3 NFC
Physical iPhone/Android Test Robot From US$70,000
Quality Commander [J] from Japan novel Corporation [J] is a gadget test automation robot which combines an industrial robot with camera and software. A blog S-max reported [J] their demo at Embedded Technology 2010 conference at Yokohama. The robot touches the device’s screen, by program and/or repeating a human’s first operation. The software will capture… Continue reading Physical iPhone/Android Test Robot From US$70,000
Cellphone Java App Emulator On Javascript/HTML5
Before smartphone, there were feature phone applications. Java MIDP is one of the application environment used on Softbank/Wilcom/KDDI au in Japan, and also on Motorola feature phone, etc. Android is known to use Java-derived environment. Google made different virtual machine Dalvik with avoiding using Sun’s(and now Oracle’s) Java, but Java/CLDC profile MIDP is authentic standard… Continue reading Cellphone Java App Emulator On Javascript/HTML5
LTE vs. Extention Of Current Techs: Who Brings Us The World’s Fastest Mobile Broadband?
Japan’s largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo announced at their seasonal press conference that it would launch an LTE (long-term evolution) service called Xi[J] (pronounced as “crossy”) on Christmas eve of this year in Japan’s highly populated areas of Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. LTE is collectively known as 3.9G mobile technology standard that allows you to… Continue reading LTE vs. Extention Of Current Techs: Who Brings Us The World’s Fastest Mobile Broadband?
Live: Six Japanese Tech Start-ups Present At SF NewTech Japan Night
As Shunichi Arai introduced here last month, San Francisco-based digital consulting agency btrax, Inc. organizes an event featuring six Japanese tech start-ups today. Without being at the venue in San Francisco, you’ll be able to watch it live on Ustream from all around the world. The live starts today at 11:30am JST, 7:30pm PDT and… Continue reading Live: Six Japanese Tech Start-ups Present At SF NewTech Japan Night
Piping Manufacturer Invents New Idea To Control Typhoons With Subs
The Mainichi Shimbun, one of Japan’s major newspapers, reports[J] a manufacturing company called Ise Kogyo[J] in the Central Japan has invented a new idea that enables to let a typhoon downshift its strength with a bunch of submarines. Twenty submarines having special equipments for pumping out cold water from the deep sea to the sea… Continue reading Piping Manufacturer Invents New Idea To Control Typhoons With Subs
Facebook Launches Places in Japan
Japan has officially become the first country outside of the United States to receive Facebook Places.
Japan Internet Tech Entrepreneur Event In San Francisco
A first of its kind event is being held in San Francisco featuring Japanese Entrepreneurs on October 13, 2010. This event named SFNewTech Japan Night is the vision of Brandon K. Hill, President/CEO of btrax, Inc – a San Francisco based digital consultancy agency. “I wanted to help Japanese Entrepreneurs extend their market outside of… Continue reading Japan Internet Tech Entrepreneur Event In San Francisco