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Hugvie: A Huggable Robot Pillow Phone
This is one of those concepts that has noble intentions — I think — but comes across as just a little weird. Maybe a whole lot weird. It’s a mobile phone pillow/robot with inbuilt vibration motors designed to make mobile calls a lot more personal.
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Akihabara, Tokyo: Where Laptops Are Flicked Through Like Vinyl Records
There’s nowhere in the world quite like Akihabara, Tokyo’s geeky “Electric Town”. It’s like Taipei’s Guang Hua technology market–but everywhere–and with manga, porn, cosplay, and maid cafés thrown into the mix.
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Give Blood Like You’re In An ’80s Sci-Fi Comic
In the days following the Tohoku Earthquake, Japanese people across the country began doing what they could for the relief efforts by rolling up their sleeves and giving blood. Just days after the quake hit, the Japanese Red Cross blood donation centres were running at a surplus.
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Is Logicool Cooler Than Logitech?
Maybe I’ve been living under a rock, but I had no idea Logitech was known as “Logicool” in Japan. Seems like an odd decision.