Tokyo is crowded and busy no doubt about that. You would think that the place have no one living it it by what you see on TV and movies. Once you look a little closer you begin to realize that there are people living in this robust metropolis. Here is part one of a story on what it’s like to live in (or not live in) the famed Electric City, Akihabara.
Living in Akihabara – Part One
Tag: Japan
Business card style USB memory
Now here is a clever idea, a USB memory device that is about the same size as a business card. The obvious (to me at least) would be as a portfolio vehicle for artists and designers. Just remember to make a Mac and a PC version and include return postage and your ready to wow the future clients.
Doggy Player
This could be a cool toy to have around, maybe… The display on its head is polychromatic and does tricks and what not so it will give you nice visuals while playing your tunes in addition to moving about a bit. But thats not all! It can make up it’s own ‘music’ from an internal supply of clips. As long as it won’t walk off my desk it could be pretty cool if you set it to ‘trance’ and go to work on some OT at the office.
(I think that the name will change if it ever to be sold here, Apple may say that ‘iDog’ dilutes the ‘iMac’ name….)
The site is in Japanese and in Flash so translating it is of little use (I hate sites like that… When will there be a language translator for Flash pages?). You can get some pretty good looking wall papers of the iDog but they are compressed in .lzh (!) format, so you might have to hunt for a proggy to handle it.
idog???????
Here you can read about its features in English:
Sega’s idog: the iPod reborn in canine form
Video Card Running Too Hot?
If you need a heat sink that extends outside of your computer, you might be a power user…
With heat pipes and real big heat sinks this sucker should keep your card cool even in the most intense of fire fights. Good thing that BZFlag isn’t all that graphic intensive or I’d have to get one of these.
Fanreshetoshinc that expands outside Sarmaltic and case fin
Kao-moji
Now some of these characters you can’t do with an English keyboard, but you can do a few.
Kao-moji(Japanese Emoticons)
Is That a Cactus in Your Pocket, or Are You just Happy to See Me…
The latest thing from Japan, keychain plants. As listed on the SorobanGeeks page, they sell for about $10 and are living plants. Once the little guy gets too big for its dome, you simply transplant it to a larger pot. I think that this is a very cute idea, just remember to leave you keys in the sun once ina while (maybe someone will sell a broad spectrum lamp that you can keep you keys in so the plant won’t die.)
Plants to go