Yupiteru’s Speed Camera Detector Lei01 Is A Virtual Girl Talks You When Driving

In Japan, carrying speed-radar detectors on your car is not illegal. People try to avoid speeding tickets by knowing where radar gun is pointing you beforehand. And when some machine is a commodity, there is always a room to ship a product with moe-flavor for people who love it. Yupiteru’s radar detector Lei01 [J, beware,… Continue reading Yupiteru’s Speed Camera Detector Lei01 Is A Virtual Girl Talks You When Driving

Tokyo Architecture Navigator – Visit Tokyo’s 1000 Notable Buildings With iPhone

“Tokyo Kenchiku Navi/Tokyo Architecture Navigator” is a new English/Japanese bilingual iOS app by real-estate information website R-Store, which covers about 1,000 Tokyo buildings designed by architects like Tadao Ando, Arata Isozaki, Kazuyo Sejima, etc. The app contains around 3,000 photos of the buildings, information of each building such like the designer’s name, address, year established,… Continue reading Tokyo Architecture Navigator – Visit Tokyo’s 1000 Notable Buildings With iPhone

Mapion Offer’s 1 Year Limited Term Overseas Play Location Game “World Magical Adventure”

Mapion [J] under sponsoring by NTT Docomo [J] has announced the release of the location based game “Sekai Magical Daiboken” [J] (World Magical Adventure), which allows Docomo users to play overseas, for a one year fixed term starting September 8th (Thursday). Currently Mapion offers the cell phone stamp library game “Keitai Kuni Tori Kassen” (Cell… Continue reading Mapion Offer’s 1 Year Limited Term Overseas Play Location Game “World Magical Adventure”

Japanese Location-Based Service Colopl Sells Special Card With Pro-Baseball Ticket

Colopl [J] is planning to implement the sports game watching “Pro Baseball! Colopl Series” [J] to link with their cell phone geo-location game “Koroni-na Seikatsu” (Colony Life).  This will be their first attempt to collaborate with professional sports.  The “Pro Baseball! Colopl Series” is for sales of special Colopl Card linked game tickets for 16… Continue reading Japanese Location-Based Service Colopl Sells Special Card With Pro-Baseball Ticket

Yumemi To Develop American Location Game “MyTown” For Japan

Yumemi has announced that they are joining forces with Booyah, maker of the American location information social game “MyTown” which has over 4 million users.  From now on, “MyTown” will be developed in Japan. “MyTown” is a Check-in type of location based service with strong game components.  It is tied to such corporations as Disney,… Continue reading Yumemi To Develop American Location Game “MyTown” For Japan

KDDI Buys 5% Stake In GPS Game Provider Colopl For US$6.2 Million

Launched in Japan as early as 2005, “Colopl”, a simulation in which cell phone users manage a virtual colony, is probably one of the earliest geo-aware games out there. The namesake company made “Coloni-na Seikatsu Plus” (Colony-like Life) available to subscribers of NTT Docomo, SoftBank Mobile, and KDDI au. In the game, players collect a… Continue reading KDDI Buys 5% Stake In GPS Game Provider Colopl For US$6.2 Million

Colopl Visualizes Where People Checking-In East Japan

Japanese Location based service Coropura(Colopl.jp) makes a map of east Japan to show where its users checked in the day before [J]. The hex displayed on the map means there were at least one check in yesterday. The map has a choice of cellphone carriers, Docomo/au/Softbank. Docomo must have more users and good coverage. The… Continue reading Colopl Visualizes Where People Checking-In East Japan

Japan Railway GPS Challenge Requires Users To Visit Bullet Train Stations Nationwide

Railway heavyweight JR (Japan Railway), which was the national railway until privatization in 1987, has begun a new promotion for its high-speed ‘shinkansen’ (bullet train) network using a GPS location game. All six of the JR passengers companies, spread from Hokkaido to Kyushu, are involved in “Nihon Rettou Judan, Challenge Shinkansen” [J] (Bullet Train Challenge… Continue reading Japan Railway GPS Challenge Requires Users To Visit Bullet Train Stations Nationwide

Dentsu iButterfly Experiments AR and Location Based Coupon Service

Dentsu Inc., Japan’s largest advertising agency, announced that they started experimental coupon platform iButterfly with free iPhone application. The application “iButterfly – Coupon Entertainment” can be downloaded for free until the end of March 2010 (requires iPhone 3GS). On the mobile application, user can look through the iPhone app to the town and find butterfly… Continue reading Dentsu iButterfly Experiments AR and Location Based Coupon Service