When Messrs Bush, Blair & Company tricked the world with the biggest lie in human history of fantastical WMD (weapons of mass destruction) and al-Qaa'ida in Iraq, our favorite anti(?)-hero Doraemon was busily developing his secret WMD, er.. weapon of mass delivery, rather... behind the scene. My most unconfidential and unreliable source informed me about the state of this arms development.

Doraemon's ultimate weapon can deliver a highly-compressed air mass to an extremely far distance, maximum range being more than 3,000 miles... well, more than 3,000mm actually. The speed of air-mass bullet can be tremendous, almost reaching 0.04 to 0.05 Mach, just a little bit slower than the cruising speed of Von Richthofen's legendary Dreidecker.

Anyway, the delivered air mass can hit the target precisely, depending on your artillerymanship, though giving any physical damage to it would be beyond its capability. Ah well, if the target were a bunch of innocent mosquitoes, a kind of tragedy could occur to them probably.
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Fuel cells have been around for quite some time. It even went to the Moon onboard the Apollo rocket. But, except for the large stationary apparatus, no commercial fuel cells are readily available even in Akihabara speciality shops.

A car powered by fuel cell? Every single car manufacturer tried it at one time or another, and some test cars are actually running on one. But you have to wait quite some time until your neighborhood dealer delivers it to your garage. Maybe your children will be able to enjoy the smooth and quiet fuel cell ride. Or your grandchildren, possibly.

Sony's bio cells (x 4). Still feeble, but potentially promising power source.

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Game industry's eternal quest for the killer hardware has been famous, the ultimate game platform that can corner the market totally and forever... ah well, that'd be a bit too much to expect, reigning for some years, at least.

The killer wrestler, Ude Damashii from Altus Amusement.

An arcade game specialist, Atlus Amusement of Shinjuku, Tokyo, has been the major player in this field. Especially its Purikura ("Print Club", those pink arcade machines that shoot your self-portrait and print it on tiny stickers; girls love it!) have had undisputed dominance in Japan. Atlus also is quite strong at those arcade quasi-gymnastic machines, like punching, kicking, dancing and drum-beating coin-swallowers.
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You think your kids have to be vigilantly protected from the evil Internet all the time? Sure, millions of porn/sex/dating and other predatory sites are lurking and preying on your children. I fully understand that your parental love is far deeper than the Mariana trench. But, how can you enforce it?

If your kids literally obey what you say, fine. But that kind of obedient children exist only in virtual Second Life. Demanding filtering software? Oh, c'mon, you sincerely think it works somehow?

Japanese kids log-in constantly into their Ura school site.

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Sure, there are quite a number of people left in this world who don't like the tiny mobile phone at all.

".....Yeah, my first mobile phone was pretty compact, everything packed neatly on the backpack ladder. Antenna, a diminutive 2m whip. Weighed mere 20kg, half of it batteries. I carried it around all over Asian jungles, oh yeah, some 65 years ago..."

Some of these diehard reactionar... er, eccentrics are trying to revert the seemingly unstoppable trend of shrinking mobile gears. So, when a kinky London workshop, Hulger Ltd, pushed forward the "timeless classic" Pokia-phone (aka P*PHONE) in 2002, they enthusiastically welcomed it.

The trend was slightly pushed back. 40-pound (not the weight, sterling) P*PHONE hijacked the regular mobile and replace it with a bulky-and-heavy traditionally built handset.

Hulger's P*PHONE in action. Just a little effort to reverse the trend.

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