Japanese gadgets
Japan: World’s Leaders in Toilet Production
By Rizmyn | September 2, 2008
The Japanese know that a toilet can do more than umm dispose of your undesirable bodily excretions. The toilet can calm and soothe your harried nerves and even save your marriage! How, you may ask. Let the experts explain. The Japanese have invented toilets with more accessories than your new iPhone. Their high-tech toilets, which everyone may laugh over but secretly rushes to buy, understands that a toilet that can automatically put the lid down for you would please your wife and is thus, obviously, called the marriage-saver.
Urn Retrieval System Solves Problem of Grave Deficiency in Japan
By Rizmyn | August 26, 2008
The question of finding burial space in Japan has almost drove people to their graves (if they could find space to dig one). Buying plots for graves have become more and more expensive and almost an impossibility for the less fortunate. In a land where ancestor worship is an important part of the culture and the mourning process, the need for a material object as a representation of the link between the living and the dead is a near necessity. The latest solution for this problem is the retrieval of urns holding the ashes of loved ones.
Brace Yourself For The Next Earthquake With GraGraph
By Vlad | August 23, 2008
Imagine how cool it would be to alert oneself about an earthquake about to occur and also know how big the quake can really get. GraGraph is a device, which enables us to know the intensity of a quake on the Richter scale right from 3 to 10, but it’s not a predictor of earthquakes that’s going to occur. The device helps us to brace ourselves before any damage occurs. This device consists of an in built LCD clock, an alarm and a night-light. The GraGraph also records seismic activity where in the frequency or magnitude of any earthquake activity in a given area.
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Heralding interactivity: Talking Towers
By Cheryl | August 18, 2008
Interactivity is the buzz word today and buildings were the only static thing untouched by this phenomenon until the concept of Talking Towers came into being.
Designed by Bieling Heydekamp Klotsche Zelmer, this is an Interactive Video-Installation, which gives participants the power to modulate and move the particles with the help of a light stick. Following this, the moving particles are then projected on the newly built Kranhaus Süd in Cologne.
The installation is open to public viewing post August 16 during the “New Talents” Design Biennale.
Via: Design Spotter
“The Archbishop” Gothic PC from Datamancer
By Cheryl | August 12, 2008
If change is what you love and experimentation is what you don’t mind and daring is your spiri then, you have all the characteristics to make you an ideal owner of the new Archbishop PC. Coming from the house of Datamancer, the Gothic PC homes a full computer inside a stained glass cabinet, while the monitor finds home in a Gothic arch.
Breathing in the gothic era are the The LCD/Keyboard/Mouse combo which specially cater to the gaming fans. The Console features 20″ widescreen LG LCD, dual core processor, 2GB DDR2 800 (upgradable to 8G), Ethernet, NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS 512MB Video Card.
Air Conditioned Bed
By Cheryl | August 5, 2008
It seems heat is actually roasting people coz every new day we are coming across a new and innovative air conditioner to keep you cool. If earlier it was the USB shirt AC to keep you chilled in Office, now it’s the turn of an air-conditioned bed that’s perfect to give you some cool sleep.
Coming to the functionality of this bed. It is quite simple. All it does is puts the dual fans featured in the bed pad to use. Cool air is pulled in from behind your head and circulated through the soft membrane which also acts as an air-cushion to support you. Don’t woory the fans are extremely quite, won’t disturb your sleep at any cost.
Available in the measurements of 92cm x 200cm (36in. x 79in), the bed features 3 speed levels with the fan power of 4.5w. Best of all, the bed uses extremely low power, costing only $.24 per month if used eight hours a day!
Price: $399
Via: GadgetGrid
Fujitsu unveils F706i, its new waterproof cell phone series
By Andrew | June 18, 2008
Come the rainy season and one thing that I dread the most is using my cel phone out in open. A few showers on it and it’s gone for a toss. But seems water woes of mine and many more like me are about to hit an end. Why? Because, Fujitsu has come up their cool new waterproof wonder, the F706i series. Yes, it’s their new waterproof phone so go ahead and get drenched in showers together with catching up with your gal on your waterproof phone.
Talk about features and Fujitsu’s F706i series is loaded with them. Starting from a unique LED panel that provides all the important information about the phone, it opens to be a 2in1 phone option giving you the flexibility to hold use two numbers on a single phone. It supports HSDPA, 3G WorldRing, features 1Seg TV tuner and a 2Mpix camera and also supports PC web browser just like the real one!
Sega Toys bring the new female robot for adults, it can kiss as well!
By Andrew | June 12, 2008
If your kid is has grown old enough to play with his good old macho robot and young enough to have a girlfriend, why not get him a sexy she humanoid, which is not just ultra sexy but quite a toy as well. Check out Sega toy’s latest add on – E.M.A meaning “Eternal, Maiden, Actualisation”.
This sexy female robot stands 38 cm tall and is blessed with a ‘curvy body’ and high levels of interactivity. Now a view of what all your new companion can do for you. Well, it can hand out your business cards, it can walk, sing and also dance like a ‘perfect lady’.
If you are thinking to get EMA for you and not for your kid, let me disclose it’s most exiting feature. EMA can also kiss you! All you need to get one is, bring you head close to EMA and its love mode triggers off to give you a warm pucker!
Powered by battery, the robot features infra red sensors to deal with obstacles, sounds and position.Coming to the price Sega toys will give it o you for $175 by 26th September.
Via: CrunchGear
Hitachi’s 3D image display system with LCD screen
By Andrew | August 24, 2007
Now enjoy the magic of 3D image display system in your cell phone. Capturing films and then transferring them to your friends’ phone is now an old-news. The demand-of-the-hour is to transfer images that are three-dimensional in nature.
Japan’s electronics giant Hitachi researcher Rieko Otsuka displays the newly developed 3D image display system composed of LCD screen (bottom), and 12-side inverted pyramid shaped half-mirror screens, to show live or computer graphics virtual 3D images in Tokyo.
The 3D image is replicated with 12 mirrows set inside the canister and display floating 3D images that can be viewed from any angle. Weighing only one-kilogram; this portable 3D display is expected to display exhibits of museums and art pieces at schools.
Via Yahoo
World’s Thinnest and Lightest LCD TVs by Sharp
By Andrew | August 23, 2007
Sharp Corp takes the opportunity to launch the world’s thinnest and lightest LCD TVs that ensures picture quality. Against Sharp’s old model 52-inch LCD TV that was 81mm thick, this new avatar is just 20mm thick.
Along with thickness, the weight of the prototype is 5 kgs less than the old model and weighs 25 kgs. Consuming almost half the electricity, the set displays a 100,000:1 distinction ratio and delivers five times more vibrant pictures than conservative models.
With no information about the price tag, plans are to start the production of these ultra-thin sets at its new LCD factory in Sakai, western Japan. The factory will be online and in full-process by March 2010. Sharp is considering Sony’s organic light-emitting diode TVs as it tough competitor as its features are also at par. Sony’s set will be launched by the end of the year.
Via HDTV News