W53H GPS/Phone

Hitachi is aiming to replace your GPS with a cell phone / GPS combo. The newly announced W53H (AKA Wooo) will come in 3 colors: Japan Black, Nordic White, and Euro Purple. With its 2.8″ OLED TV like screen, you’ll see where you are going, even if you have no clue where you are.
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PS3 Rumble

Rumble is available for the PS3, but not without jumping through some hoops. To make it easier, just buy Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (the first retail game with built-in rumble support) and you will have the firmware. The controller is a more difficult as it is set to release next month in [...]

nano speakers

Creative Labs recently unveiled their upcoming TravelSound i50, a portable speaker system made specifically and exclusively for the diminutive iPod shuffle. Aside from the USB port and carabiner clip, what I find most interesting about the unit is its size. It makes the shuffle about four times bigger than it really is, which negates one [...]

Our Robotic Overlords Will Be Able to GET DOWN

Those crazy Japanese! A group at the University of Tokyo have taught a Kawada Industries HRP-2 to dance a Japanese folk dance, the Aizu-Bandaisan. It’s a little creepy, I admit, but then again it would be better to have Overlords who appreciate a good dance, than not.

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The Aliens Exosuit Was Real: Check Out This Enryu T-53

All of you sci-fi fans certainly see the similarity between this Japanese support robot, the Enryu T-53, and the exosuit that Ripley used to do away with the queen alien in Aliens. Or am I the only one geeky enough for that? In any case, this is a rather impressive piece of hardware, although unfortunately [...]

Blu-ray Disc Camcorder

Hitachi is showing off its upcoming world’s first Blu-ray Disc camcorder. planned for an August 30 launch in Japan.
The two 5.3 megapixel CMOS models, the DZ-BD70 and DZ-BD7H hybrid which packs both an 8-cm BD writer and 30GB disk…

… have a system which captures, records and stores 1920×1080 full high-definition video throughout the whole process [...]

$32K Wooden Car

Would you spend $32,000 for a wooden car? Where do these people get these dumb ideas?
A Japanese furniture maker has come up with this Wooden Supercar which only goes about 50 mph for a top speed.
I suppose there are enough folks out there with more money than brains.

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Train Schedules Alarm Clock

For those who live in a society based upon train travel, this gadget is mighty handy. Meet Japan’s Yamanote alarm clock which incorporates train schedules into its dial face.
With supporting chimes and sounds actually used at the said train stations, you’ll feel right at home - rushing to catch the beast to work. Except that [...]

Japanese Devise Cellphone Hypnosis… er… Biometrics

Really, I think it looks like this guy’s being hypnotized, but apparently he’s looking into Oki Japan’s new iris recognition security technology. Not much more to say about it, except that in addition to all the other strange habits we’ve grown accustomed to with cellphone use, staring intently before making a call will soon be [...]

Who’s Your Nani?

A Japan phone, this one might just duke it out with Apple’s iPhone.  Some of the features on Sophia’s Mobile Nani is bound to bring some excitement to those who can’t or won’t ever support Apple’s iPhone.  It comes with a large 4.3 touchscreen, video playback (800 x 400 pixels), expandle MicroSD slot, camera, WiFi, [...]