Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Ahh, quite the royal throne…
Yamato house industrial corporation in collaboration with TOTO Ltd. corporation will start selling the toilet of the future from April 5th onwards.
Aside from the regular functions, you can also check your health status with 4 parameters:the glucose level in your urine the blood pressure the fat precentage in the body the weight Needless to say that all this information can be transferred to your PC.
Intelligent toilets according to TOTO
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These are cool, you have to go check the site out to see the other devices. The speaker tower is real neat.
Tec will release four USB products mid-April. They are the “USB Hub Wheel W” USB hub, the “USB Senpuuki Mist W” USB fan, “USB Speaker Tower W” USB speaker/light, and “USB Speaker Cube W” USB speaker/hub. All products are part of the company’s new “Boynq” brand. The price of the USB Hub Wheel W is 2,500 yen, the USB Senpuuki Mist W is 2,100 yen, the USB Speaker Tower W is 4,500 yen, and the USB Speaker Cube W is 6,825 yen.
Tec Boynq USB thingy series
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Yow! A battery that will recharg to 80% in 60 seconds? Very cool.
My friend Greg mentioned a super capacitor that uses nanoparticles to pack in the joules. These rapid charge lithium ion batteries use the same idea. Look for them in 2006. I hope that they can up the discharge rate and get these in R/C planes.
Toshiba ultra-rapid charging battery
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Cool, with this I could set my DRV up to record no matter where in the country (world?) I was. Will it ever come to America? I hope so.
KDDI and Hitachi Systems and Services have teamed up for a project called “micro-VNC,” allowing for VNC from a mobile phone. The system supports Windows, Mac and Linux machines. KDDI and Hitachi Systems and Services announced that they have begun sale of “micro-VNC,” an enterprise-level solution for controlling remote PCs by way of au cellular phone
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Now until September there in the world expo going on in Achi Japan. Here are a few glimpses of what has been going on. (If you click on an image on the translated page you may get an error page in Japanese. To avoid this, open the picture link in another tab and use that to view the images)
I’d go there in a second if I could get someone to pay my way, anyone looking for a photojournalist to cover the event? 🙂
Robots and Energy House:
Expo ’05 – Robots – English
Use to look at the pictures on the page:
Expo ’05 – Robots – PHOTOS
Global House, Mamoth and space stuff:
Xepo ’05 – Global House – English
Use to look at the pictures on the page:
Expo ’05 – Global House – PHOTOS
The classic ‘bullet time’ pingpong ball video. I’d love to see of the other acts from this Japanese show…