Articles on Japan

The Cove, a docudrama about the secret slaughter of dolphins - Sep 7, 2009

Blogs For a long time in the small town of Taiji, Japan, the residents have enjoyed the presence of dolphins. This is the place where dolphins are caught and sold to aquatic ... Read story »

Polaris fuses a phone with a robot - Sep 21, 2009

Crave Just don't call the Polaris a mobile phone. It has a bigger calling in life, much like a shinning beacon in the sky that guides you on the right path. ... Read story »

Sharp prepares for 4K and 3D LCD displays - Sep 21, 2009

Crave The Japanese company has recently developed a new UV2A technology which can "significantly evolve LCD TVs to the next generation", according to its press release. Some of the key benefits of ... Read story »

Panasonic announces GF1 price for Singapore - Sep 24, 2009

Crave When Panasonic unveiled its third Micro Four Thirds camera, the Lumix DMC-GF1, three weeks ago, it was seen as the direct competitor to the Olympus E-P1. Both shooters have very ... Read story »

Dual-screen hits Netbooks - Oct 6, 2009

Crave Though Lenovo started the trend of having two screens on its workstation portable, Kohjinsha believes in bettering this with two 10.1-inch panels on its Netbook. Showcased at Ceatec 2009 in ... Read story »

Epson goes 4K resolution with its 3LCD technology - Nov 12, 2009

Crave Epson has just announced the world's first high-temperature polysilicon TFT LCD panel for 3LCD projectors which boasts 4,096 x 2,160 (4K) pixels. Newly developed in response to future market demands, ... Read story »

Nintendo DSi LL disassembled - Nov 27, 2009

Blogs The new upsized DSi LL is now out here in Japan, and it didn't take long for someone to rip one open and poke around its insides. The guys over at PC ... Read story »

Singapore gets Google Street View, finally - Dec 2, 2009

Crave Screenshot of Esplanade Drive It's been a long wait, but Google's ground-level imagery feature Street View of Singapore is at last a go. According to Google, Singapore is the first ... Read story »

A rundown on where to find weird China news - Aug 30, 2009

Blogs Aside from terrible traffic, row upon endless row of souless apartment blocks, and a rather brutal family planning system, China's massive population also assures that it's never short on bizarre news ... Read story »

Ceatec 2009 sees Sony Vaio, Walkman, Reader get OLED treatment - Oct 7, 2009

Crave Vaio with flexible OLED screen. CHIBA, JAPAN--Perhaps to distract from the fact that it has no organic light-emitting diode TV on display here at Ceatec 2009, Sony is instead showing ... Read story »

Futuristic phones from Fujitsu - Oct 7, 2009

Crave The winning design, titled "Gesture". Out of 2,000 design concepts for mobile phones of the future, the winning entry in Fujitsu's Mobile Phone Design competition was not the flashiest or ... Read story »

Baidu CEO, Robin Li, speaks out - Sep 25, 2009

Blogs Robin Li, the co-founder and current CEO of Baidu, the Chinese search engine giant, is--unsurprisingly--a tech superstar. However, we don't get to hear too much from him. So, the Wall Street ... Read story »

Sleepbox for 40 winks in a mobile box - Nov 11, 2009

Crave Sleepboxes can be installed at train stations, airports and shopping centers. With more devices dedicated to the sleep deprived on the move, the Sleepbox is one concept I'm rooting for. ... Read story »

Google Trike rides into Singapore - Sep 29, 2009

Crave It was almost a year ago that we spotted a Google Street View car in Singapore. Now, the search giant is adding what it calls a "mechanical masterpiece" to gather images ... Read story »

A photo tour of Ceatec Tokyo - Oct 9, 2009

Crave What we won't give our left arm for to be there at Ceatec 2009 in Tokyo, Japan's annual gadgetfest that features the weird alongside the wondrous. Still, for those who haven't ... Read story »

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