I’d post a link to a translated version but the site is all Flash so you have to suffer because of a lazy designer. If your a fan of Ultraman and happen to be in Ikebukuro Japan before August 31 you can attend the 15 annual Ultraman festival.
Tag: Japan
Gookie Snacks!
Sometimes a trip to the local Asian market gives you more than the regular snack foods.
Color ePaper From Fujitsu
I want a magazine sized sheet of this that will display PDF files, simple text files, and the Zino file format so I can read the electronic versions of magazines. Plus a compact flash slot and USB interface for easy loading of files. Could this be the beginning of on demand newspapers? Just get the ePaper and load it from newspaper sellers or off the Internet.
world’s first film substrate-based bendable color electronic paper with an image memory function. The new electronic paper features vivid color images that are unaffected even when the screen is bent, and features an image memory function that enables continuous display of the same image without the need for electricity. The thin and flexible electronic paper uses very low power to change screen images, thereby making it ideal for displaying information or advertisements in public areas as a type of new electronic media that can be handled as easily as paper.
Fujitsu Color ePaper Press Release
Haiku In 8×8 Dots
“This lipstick size device has an RCA Video Male Plug. Plug this Video Bulb to your Video Input and it will play endless animation of BITMAN on your TV screen. Another creative media art by Ryota Kuwakubo.”
I remember seeing this a long time ago somewhere but there has been an update in the form of an input device that will allow users to create their own 8×8 animations. Pretty cool.
HOAP-3
I’d like to have one of these, it would be programmed to follow me at a respectable distance and hand me my cell phone whenever it rings.
Honda’s ASIMO has a new friend on the block now – Fujitsu Automation’s HOAP-3 humanoid robot. Short in stature at 60cm and weighing in at 8.8kg, image recognition and various sensors have been added. With a 1.1GHz Pentium M processor that runs on RT-Linux inside, HOAP-3 would be a prime target for homebrew application developers. Fujitsu Automation has announced that the internal interface information of the hardware/software for the unit will be released. Simulation software for pre-confirmation of control programs is included for those who are into self-programming.
Fujitsu Automation unveils HOAP-3 robot
Your Algae Pal
I though that the living plant key chain doo-dads were weird… Thats nothing, now you can own a little chunk of green algae in a bottle to hang off your phone. The stuff in the bottle is called ‘marimo’. In the wild it will take the shape of a ball as it is moved around in a lake due to waves and curents. Some people use it as decoration in aquariums – I don’t know why, it’s hard enough to keep algae OUT of an aquarium. Anyway, you can now make it part of you keitai if you want to look uber cool.