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Mobile

Siri Will Soon Handle Japanese, She Even Admits It

Go ahead and ask Siri what languages she speaks. Unlike a few weeks ago, her reply will now include Japanese. We mentioned that extra languages were going to be coming to the app soon — looks like Japanese will be the first to arrive. [9to5Mac]

21 June 2011

Gadgets

Watch Time Pass With An LED-Illuminated Circle Of Blocks

No, it won’t make time go faster, but telling time with a series of connected LED-illuminated blocks does make counting the minutes a bit more enjoyable.

20 May 2011

Geek Out

Every House Should Come Equipped With A Towel-Folding Robot

Handy robots are like the cute puppies of the world. No-one wants a stationery ‘bot, as much as they don’t want one of these. *shudder* Surely the golden retriever of the robot world is one that actually does household chores.

7 April 2011

Geek Out

Watch This Car Drive Into Japan’s Eerily Quiet Nuclear Evacuation Zone

This reporter films his journey into the evacuation zone around Japan’s troubled Fukushima nuclear plant. Normally crowded streets are empty but for a pack of dogs and a few flat-bed trucks carrying unknown cargo. A Geiger counter measures extremely high radiation.

23 January 2011

Gaming

Japanese Toilets Have Crazy Video Games To Play While Peeing

Sega has installed toilet games in bars and arcades across Tokyo. It’s called Toylet and games include measuring volume of urine, measuring power of stream, wiping a wall clean of graffiti and even controlling wind to lift a girl’s skirt up.

16 January 2011

Geek Out

A View Of Tangled Telephone Wires In Japan

Andreas Gefeller, a photographer, took a series of pictures that show the ridiculously tangled telephone wires on the streets of Japan. It’s jarring how chaotic the wires look when they’re all you focus on.

5 January 2011

Gadgets

A Smart Place To Put The Elevator Button

I’ve never thought about this before, but when your hands are tied up and you need to hit the button to call the elevator, isn’t it smarter to kick the button instead of elbowing it? Those clever Japanese!

1 January 2011

Gadgets

Sushi Restaurant Uses Sushi Robots And Control Centers To Cut Costs

Kura, a sushi chain, focuses on efficiency and turning a profit. So much so that they’ve eschewed traditional sushi chefs for sushi robots, a large staff of waiters for conveyor belts and restaurant managers for a control centre with video link.

8 December 2010

The Second Concept-to-Reality Watch Has Gone At Sale At Tokyo Flash

Another concept watch created by a fan has been made a reality by Tokyo Flash—the Kisai Satellite. Available in either black or white, people voted in droves for the chance to be able to buy it.

20 October 2010

When Is A Yo-Yo Not A Yo-Yo? When It Costs $US5,000

That’s not even a joke. Not only will it set you back the price of a car, but you’ll have to wait six months for it to land on your doorstep, too. I guess they are hand-made in Japan, but still…

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