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Sidecar Revolutionizes Phone Calls by Bringing “Smart Calling” to Smartphones
22 May 2012 12:00 PM | No Commentsvar AdBrite_Title_Color = '0000FF'; var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000'; var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF'; var AdBrite_Border_Color = 'CCCCCC'; var AdBrite_URL_Color = '008000'; try{var AdBrite_Iframe=window.top!=window.self?2:1;var AdBrite_Referrer=document.referrer==''?document.location:document.referrer;AdBrite_Referrer=encodeURIComponent(AdBrite_Referrer);}catch(e){var AdBrite_Iframe='';var AdBrite_Referrer='';} document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,83,67,82,73,80,84));document.write(' src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=2053203&zs=3436385f3630&ifr='+AdBrite_Iframe+'&ref='+AdBrite_Referrer+'" type="text/javascript">');document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,47,83,67,82,73,80,84,62)); SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Launching today, Sidecar (www.sidecar.me) is a new mobile app that brings Smart Calling to smartphones....
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TransCore Launches Mobile iPad App for TransSuite Traffic Management System
21 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsWASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intelligent Transportation Society of America Annual Meeting – TransCore brings the ease of mobile computing to its TransSuite® advanced traffic management system (ATMS), launching its iPad® ...
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Cellfish Marvel’s The Avengers Live Wallpaper Android App Reaches 1.3 Million Downloads
16 May 2012 2:05 PM | No CommentsNEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Marvel’s The Avengers Live Wallpaper Android personalization app, created by Cellfish, has been downloaded 1.3 million times, driven by the massive success of Marvel Studios’ blockbuster movie. ...
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Kodak Introduces ESP 3.2 All-in-One Printer and New Pic Flick HD App for iPad
16 May 2012 12:30 PM | No CommentsROCHESTER, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Continuing to offer consumers a no-compromise choice in home printers, Kodak today introduced its new KODAK ESP 3.2 All-in-One Printer combining advanced features, quality, and ...
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Amneal Upgrades Generic Metformin Family by Listening to Customers
16 May 2012 11:07 AM | No CommentsBRIDGEWATER, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Amneal Pharmaceuticals, LLC today announced significant formulation and labeling changes to its generic Metformin products, offering substantial improvements in these medications for both pharmacists and their ...
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Bandai Archive
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For $3,400: Bandai to sell 1.5m tall Gundam figure
Posted on May 13, 2010 | No Comments
No doubt, Gundam is Japan's favorite anime. They opened a Gundam Cafe in Akihabara, they erected a 1:1 scale Gundam statue in Tokyo bay, and they keep offering tons of Gundam-powered stuff on a monthly basis. The 1/60 Gundam statue replica (30cm) we showed you last November, for example, wasn't bad, but today Bandai unveiled something even cooler: a Gundam model that stands an impressive 1.5 meters (5') and weighs 35kg.
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Hyper Telescope: Bandai’s new “science toy” for kids
Posted on April 15, 2010 | No Comments
Major toymaker Bandai yesterday announced the Hyper Telescope [JP], which is being marketed as a "science toy" for kids. It's the ideal gadget if you want your kid to become an astronomer, as it allows users to observe the sky and view relevant information on connected displays or within the device itself. All that needs to be done is to specify one's location on earth and the current time.
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New Japanese toy: Endless chocolate bar breaker
Posted on January 14, 2010 | No CommentsDo you like the feeling you get when you break a chocolate bar in half? Do you want to experience that feeling over and over for some reason? Then you're in the target group for a new Japanese toy called Mugen Chokoreeto [JP], which (kind of) translates back to "Endless Chocolate Bar". It's the brainchild of major Japanese toymaker Bandai. It's essentially a mini toy made of plastic that looks like a small chocolate bar and that you can "break" into two parts repeatedly. You can choose between three "flavors": milk chocolate, high-milk chocolate and white chocolate. The "bars" have a case, too, and weigh 22g. The Meiji branding you see on the picture on the left is actually the result of a licensing deal Bandai made with a real Japanese confectionery company called Meiji Seika.
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Japan gets awesome Space Battleship Yamato model
Posted on November 24, 2009 | No Comments
Space Battleship Yamato is the name of a (rather short-lived) Japanese science fiction anime series that was aired on TV in countries other than Nippon some 20 to 30 years ago (outside Japan the anime and the movie versions are also known as Star Blazers or Space Cruiser Yamato). And now, the series' very cool, eponymous spaceship gets a very pretty model version [JP].
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Tamagotchi ID: New and customizable Tamagotchi to be rolled out soon
Posted on November 16, 2009 | No Comments
In September last year, Bandai has updated the Tamagotchi with a color version, causing dozens of teenage girls to leave comments on CrunchGear for the first time. And now the company is ready to roll out yet another model: The so-called Tamagotchi ID [JP] is named "ID" because it's the first model you can customize to some extent. It's also possible to install content off the web on the device.
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These Pac-Man 30th anniversary Zippos are very cool
Posted on July 23, 2009 | No Comments
Namco's Pac Man was first released in Japan May 22, 1980, which means the 30th anniversary of the cult game is a good year away. But if it's Pac-Man, you can never celebrate too early: Starting in November, Namco Bandai, as the company is now called, plans to sell Pac-Man branded Zippos on the Japanese market.