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DOMK Receives Confirmation That 1st “SolaPad” Units Are Being Prepared for Shipment
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New Autodesk SketchBook Ink App Delivers Stunning Creative Tools for iPad
24 May 2012 12:59 PM | No CommentsSAN RAFAEL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) launched Autodesk SketchBook Ink for iPad paint and drawing app, the latest release from the company’s popular SketchBook...
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Vegas Tech Start Up Questionable LLC Launches Questionable Friends iPhone App
23 May 2012 4:53 PM | No CommentsLAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Questionable™ today introduced Questionable Friends™ for iPhone®. Questionable Friends lets you send questions to your contacts and provides instant feedback as questions are answered. Answers can be ...
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Sidecar Revolutionizes Phone Calls by Bringing “Smart Calling” to Smartphones
22 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Launching today, Sidecar (www.sidecar.me) is a new mobile app that brings Smart Calling to smartphones. Smart Calling allows people to share live See What I See video, brilliant ...
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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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Bandai Archive
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He’s back: 60-foot Gundam is (almost) ready again
Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
We spent quite a few posts on the uber-cool, gigantic Gundam statue that was erected in Tokyo Bay last year. The 60-foot robot statue was deconstructed in September, with Bandai quickly announcing plans to re-erect the big guy in Shizuoka soon. And now he's almost ready.
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Daily Crunch: Dum Dum Edition
Posted on May 14, 2010 | No CommentsThe AERIAL7 Phoenix cans mixes DJ functionality with iPhone compatibility Adobe thinking different, countering Apple’s hate with love For $3,400: Bandai to sell 1.5m tall Gundam figure Portal corporate training program a huge success Tie a knot for quick left/right ear identification -
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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Daily Crunch: Rooftop Observatory Edition
Posted on April 16, 2010 | No CommentsHyper Telescope: Bandai’s new “science toy” for kids Review: iRobot Looj How to clog your arteries the fun and flavorful way! Microsoft Arc Keyboard vs the Apple Wireless Keyboard DIY: Nikon IR remote in a Lego -
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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Japan’s giant Gundam statue returns, this time armed with a saber
Posted on March 22, 2010 | No Comments
The giant Gundam statue that protected Tokyo last summer was so cool that we covered it multiple times. In September 2009, Bandai (the company responsible for the marketing coup) decided to retire Gundam once and for all.
But five months later, in December 2009, the city of Shizuoka (some 125 miles west of Tokyo) announced it plans to re-erect the statue in July this year. And now it has come to light that it will really happen [JP] (on the 24th of July, Gundam’s 30th birthday, to be more exact). Shizuoka is the city where most of the Gundam plastic models come from.
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Rilakkuma: Ultra-mobile, ultra-cute tablet PC
Posted on March 16, 2010 | No Comments
First a Casio Exilim, now an ultra-mobile PC (or UMPC, as the Japanese say): Cult teddy bear Rilakkuma is on his way to dethrone Hello Kitty as the character of choice for Japanese electronics companies when it comes to giving gadgets that extra-cute touch. The bear is now to be seen on a special version of a Kohjinsha tablet PC [JP, PDF] that's part of the company's XS series.
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Warning: These retro gaming keychains from Bandai won’t attract ladies
Posted on January 28, 2010 | No Comments
Do you like novelty keychains? Do you like classic gaming titles such as Street Fighter II? Do you like novelty keychains that produce the sound effects from such classic titles as Street Fighter II? You must! You're reading CrunchGear!
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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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Giant Gundam statue to make a comeback next year
Posted on December 23, 2009 | No CommentsHe'll be back: The awesome 1/1 scale Gundam statue that was erected on Tokyo's artificial island Odaiba in June and that was deconstructed in September this year, will be seen again in its full glory. We reported several times about the statue, which stands 60 feet tall and shows some cool special effects (see video below).
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Tekken 6 update should improve online playability
Posted on November 24, 2009 | No CommentsYou'll find that opinions vary with respect to Tekken 6's netcode. I didn't run into too many problems, but others certainly have. What are you going to do, right? Come November 26, you can, I don't know, apply the update that will hopefully clear up some of those glitches. So that's what you can do.
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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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Live: Namco Bandai GamesCom 2009 press conference
Posted on August 19, 2009 | No CommentsJoin me for the Namco Bandai press conference at 4PM GMT+1.
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Very cool RC toy: “Mission Carrier SWAT truck” with helicopter (video)
Posted on July 14, 2009 | No Comments
Just yesterday we featured Bandai's cool remote-controlled heli-robot Sky Armor, and now the same company (its subsidiary CCP, to be exact) announced the Mission Carrier SWAT [JP], a combination of a truck and helicopter. And this toy is even better than Sky Armor.
The cool thing about the SWAT truck is the sound and the elevating deck: Push a button on the remote to make the panels in the back of the truck open and reveal the mini helicopter inside of it. The helicopter can then be controlled just like every other RC helicopter (for 5 minutes after a 30 minute charge). Needless to say, you can also let the truck itself drive around.