osaka
Robots
Lucky Dragon Boat Unleashes Fiery Wrath Upon Japan
1:40AM Mark Wilson | Japan, if the Lucky Dragon boat turns on its owner and attacks Osaka with plumes of fire, you’re on your own. More »
Robots
Robot Dog from Hell Is Terminator’s Best Friend, My Worst Nightmare
11:15PM Gizmodo US Edition | Although it’s not as scary as the spooky Big Dog—actually, it looks as friendly as the hilarious Fake Big Dog—I can imagine this prototype of a security robot dog developing into something capable running at 80kph behind you and tearing apart your thorax with pure steel fangs and claws. Fortunately, for now the rest of the videos show him to be friendlier than my own furry best friend. More »
Random Stuff
A Man Needs a Mother – Japan’s Otaku Culture Dumps the Maid
1:10PM Gizmodo US Edition | In a cafe deep in the heart of Amerikamura, Osaka, tables of otaku are sitting down to tea and cake with women old enough to be their mothers. Mother Café is an otaku fetishist establishment staffed with women that give off a motherly vibe; maid cafés are so yesterday. More »
Robots
Robovie Robot Helps Lost Shoppers, Creates Trouser Mess in Aisle 4
4:13AM Jason Chen | A series of demo runs were held with the Robovie robot in the Universal Citywalk Osaka shopping centre earlier this week in Japan trying to see how good the droid is at helping out lost shoppers. Here’s how it works. More »
_
Den Den Town: Osaka’s Akihabara-Style Geek Center
4:00AM Adam Frucci | Super Potato wasn’t the only place Ashcraft took me in Osaka; no, that was just one small taste of our tour. We explored all of Den Den Town, which is Osaka’s version of Akihabara: a geek centre full of electronics, manga, and video game shops. And unlike Akihabara, it hasn’t sold itself out to tourists. More »
_
