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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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Rinkya Archive
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Winnie The Pooh, Stitch, Alien: Super-cute digital photo frames
Posted on June 16, 2010 | No Comments
Tokyo-based gadget maker Greenhouse announced [JP] three super-cute, Disney-themed digital photo frames today, the GH-DF35TV. Buyers can choose between three characters: Winnie The Pooh, Stitch or Little Green Man (one of those green, three-eyed aliens from Toy Story 1 and 2).
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Pentax Japan unveils K-x in “rainbow colors”
Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
It seems Pentax Japan just loves redesigning their K-x digital camera. The company started offering extra-colorful versions of the device last September, followed by another limited edition, a K-x in "robotic colors", one month later. And today, Pentax unveiled [JP] the so-called TOWER RECORDS × PENTAX RAINBOW K-x, designed in collaboration with - you guessed it - Tower Records in Japan.
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Nap Vieeb Plus II: Wearable doze prevention device
Posted on April 1, 2010 | No Comments
Are you constantly in danger of falling asleep while working or driving? Alarm clocks, watches or your cell phone are of no help? Then the oddly named Nap Vieeb Plus II [JP], offered by a Japanese company called Takanoha, might be the right thing for you. The Nap Vieeb Plus II is a simple earpiece alarm gadget whose first version was released about four years ago.
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The Twist Alarm Clock forces you to activate your brain in the morning
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Buffalo announces “women-only” USB sticks
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Music Planet: Ball-shaped, water-proof MP3 player for your bath tub
Posted on March 2, 2010 | No CommentsA Japanese company called Idea Label has designed the “Music Planet” [JP] today, a portable, ball-shaped MP3 player that you can take with you to the bath tub. The device is IPX7-certified, meaning it can withstand immersion in water up to a depth of 1m for up to 30 minutes. The device also features an FM [...] -
SMASH: Electric guitar made just to get destroyed, then recycled
Posted on February 24, 2010 | No Comments
I don't know how to begin this, so I'll get right to it: A Japanese company called K's Japan is offering an "electric guitar" [JP] that's just made to get destroyed. And, after you smashed the thing to bits, you can recycle it. So what we have here is a "destroyable price and recyclable system" (K's Japan's official tag line), which is ideal for guitarists who want to look cool without sacrificing their real instrument.
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Pioneer’s “Cherry” and “Leather Belt” Earphones
Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
I don't know what it is about Japan and earphones, but this country does offer some unique ones. Today, it wasn't some weird little company but Pioneer that announced strange earphones: One is cherry-shaped [JP], the other looks like a piece of a leather belt [JP] for some reason.
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Hello Kitty MP3 player sparkles with Swarovski crystals
Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
Hello Kitty, dream cartoon cat of millions of teenage girls and women around the world, gets another portable music player. We had a device fully covered with Swarovski cystals in October last year. We had another one, all in black, in December. And today, Japan-based Mouse Computer, in cooperation with iriver Japan, announced [JP] a player that's kind of the combination of the two previous ones.
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iHeart: “Jewelry Box” speaker and dock for your iPhone/iPod
Posted on January 22, 2010 | No Comments
This one is for the the ladies: A cute, heart-shaped active speaker box for the iPhone or iPod that doubles as a dock and also offers a mirror that pops up when you open it. Aptly named iHeart [JP], the "Jewelry Box Speaker" is the brain child of a Japanese company called Marubeni Infotec.
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The “Potato Chip Hand” lets you eat chips, protects your fingers from getting greasy (video)
Posted on January 21, 2010 | No Comments
I am true believer of the hypothesis that the sillier a given country's gadgets, the fewer problems it has. In the case of Japan, we now have the Potechi No Te, which translates to Potato Chip Hand. It's actually silly and not silly at the same time, as it's meant to protect your fingers from getting greasy every time you eat chips.
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Nintendo Game and Watch: Cult reborn as keyholders (video)
Posted on January 18, 2010 | No Comments
Game & Watch is the name of a series of (now) simple LCD handheld games Nintendo produced between 1980 and 1991. The small devices still enjoy cult status among hardcore retro gamers (just look at these prices on Ebay), which means it's not that big a surprise that toymaker Takara decided to come up with three new keyholders that are designed exactly like Game & Watch units.
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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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Disgusting: The GUMMI-X toy kit is an edible insect maker
Posted on January 13, 2010 | No Comments
What Japanese toy maker Megahouse is offering here is truly disgusting: A toy kit that you can use to form edible insects made of juice and other liquids. The so-called GUMMI-X [JP] is geared towards teenage boys, but it has the potential to seriously freak out certain adults, too.
Users will be able to create a total of four exotic insects and such that they can put into their meals. Choose between stag beetle, the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, the especially disgusting pill bug and the Procambarus clarkii, a freshwater crayfish. Other animals, a frog for example, are sold separately.
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Cork USB stick and light bulb USB stick
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No Comments
I don't know what it is about Japan and USB, but Nippon just keeps on churning out USB-powered crap gadgets. Thanko is one of the Tokyo-based companies responsible for this phenomenon, the other is Greenhouse. And Greenhouse announced not one but two silly USB gadgets, memory sticks to be more exact in the last 48 hours: One is shaped like a cork [JP], the other like a mini light bulb [JP].