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Saturday, November 24th, 2007 |
Blog-happy Tokyo residents might want to make a note of a fun event taking place in early December at which they could walk off with not just a Sanyo Xacti camcorder for free, but also plenty of insight from a living, breathing Japanese video-blogging legend.
The gig is being staged at the Pink Cow bar (so, there’s booze, ok? 
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007 |
Next time you throw an old cellphone away, spare a thought for the engineers at Hokuto System in Japan, who have recycled their old handsets to make fully functional computers.
The result of their labors is a simple PC on a business-card-sized circuit board that they’ve dubbed the DVIEW and it is about to go on sale in Japan for an unspecified price.
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007 |
Japanese researchers have come up with a rather snooty technique for detecting online pirated video content in places where it shouldn’t be. By analyzing clips for ’amateur-looking techniques’ KDDI reckons it can sort the professional stuff out from the garbage the rest of us produce.
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007 |
Korg tuners and metronomes are acclaimed for their extremely high accuracy and superb features. Korg TM-40 combines these two functions into a single compact easy-to-use unit. A great lesson and practice tool, the TM-40 offers both tuner and metronome functions simultaneously or independently in a handheld unit that you can carry everywhere. Its large LCD-type needle delivers both the accuracy of an LCD and the excellent visibility of a needle indicator. It also has LED indicators that show pitch deviation or blink to indicate the tempo, making the TM-40 a highly visual tool. (more…)
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007 |
The ViewPad 1000 is a network-ready PC in a tablet form factor featuring built-in WAN, LAN and WiFi wireless connectivity. The ViewPad 1000 is ideally suited for value-added resellers and system integrators selling mobile vertical market applications. This innovative device offers mobile access to information whether you’re in the office or on the road. And with its built-in digital camera, you can capture, send and receive live images from anywhere. The 10.4″ high-resolution touch screen allows easy navigation. And at just 4.3 pounds, you can bring your office with you. (more…)
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007 |
Imagine having a flashlight that does not need batteries, or any kind of charging from an electrical outlet. All you need to do is to shake it, and with some useful magnetic and electrical interaction, the shaking gets converted to energy.
Have you ever fumbled in the darkness for a flashlight during a power outage only to discover that your batteries were dead? You’ll never have to worry with the Forever Everlife Flashlight DLX. That’s because it doesn’t require batteries. Just shake it for 60 seconds and you’ll have up to 100 minutes of continuous bright light. Imagine the money you’ll save by not having to replace costly batteries. The Forever Everlife Flashlight DLX uses the Faraday Principle of Electromagnetic Energy that guarantees replacement parts will never be needed! It never needs batteries and bulbs. It is waterproof and floats in water. 60 seconds of shaking provides up to 100 minutes of continuous light. (more…)
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007 |
When it comes to internet speeds, we’ve long-since consigned the humble kilobit-class connection to the dustbin, so a mathematics-based breakthrough has us wondering if megabit- and even gigabit-level connections will one day sound as quaintly archaic.
Researchers at Japan’s Tohoku University have tweaked existing protocols to enable standard fiber-optic cables to carry data at hundreds of terabits per second [Subscription link]. At that speed, full VOD movies could be downloaded almost instantaneously in their hundreds.
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007 |
KDDI, the company that recently started an online service delivering DVD-quality movies to domestic customers has upped the ante to send quad-HD films down the same pipe.
Although the unnamed technology is still in the labs, KDDI R&D claims it can fit video of the same quality as the Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI) requires into a typical ADSL or fiber-optic internet connection.
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007 |
A story like this just cries out for a headline about Mickey Mouse phone companies, but we won’t go down that road – instead we’ll point out that Disney’s new cellphone venture is bound to go down a treat when it launches in Japan next year.
With an eye on the cutesy-loving residents of Japan, Walt Disney Corporation has inked plans to begin offering its own phones and price plans next spring. The saccharine giant will not be investing the trillions of yen needed to start its own network, but will instead by piggybacking on the infrastructure of Softbank Mobile as an MVNO.
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