DailyTech – Honda Reveals ‘Personal Mobility’ Device. Honda recently showed off a new personal mobility technology that closely mimics a robotic unicycle designed to help disabled people move around. The new device, the U3-X, has a seat height a bit higher than an average person’s waistline, and riders must jump up a bit before they [...]
New attack cracks common Wi-Fi encryption in a minute – Network World. Computer scientists in Japan say they’ve developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers that use [...]
Japanese Women Demand Rich Husbands | Sankaku Complex. Another survey looked at the ideal annual income Japanese women sought in a man; the most popular answers were “over $90,000” with 22.8%, and “over $70,000” again with 22.8%. 19.3% were seeking over an income of $130,000 or more.
Gundam RX-78-2 Up Close | Sankaku Complex.
One second for 720 DVDs: New super-fast fiber optic cable. KDDI R&D Laboratories, research arm of KDDI (a Japanese telcom) and Japan’s National Institute of Information & Communications Technology (NICT) yesterday announced [JP, PDF] the development of the world’s most advanced fiber optic cable. The companies claim their new cable is able to transmit data [...]
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Most complete Earth map published. The most complete terrain map of the Earth’s surface has been published. The data, comprising 1.3 million images, come from a collaboration between the US space agency Nasa and the Japanese trade ministry. The images were taken by Japan’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission [...]
DailyTech – New Memory Can Store Data Safely for 1,000 Years. Japanese researchers have come up with a new form of ultra-long term memory that they say can last over 1,000 years. They dub their memory the Digital Rosetta Stone, or DRS memory for short. The system consists of a stack of four 15-inch wafers, [...]
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Ocean monster shows hidden depths. For a while during its design, Asahiko Taira told me, the ship became known as “Godzilla-maru”, so unusual and top-heavy were its projected lines. “We started planning the Chikyu about 15 years ago, and there were some people who thought we were too [...]
BBCNews: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8068560.stm .. fast fibre-based FTTH 1Gbps (gigabits per second) (fibre-to-the-home) network at one of the lowest price-per-megabits anywhere. Tokyo resident Nobuyuki is an enthusiastic user of Japan’s so-called Hikari 1GBps service, but it has made him spoilt: “Funny thing is, you get used to it, it’s normal,” he said. “It’s when you go abroad [...]
State-of-the-art fruit and vegetable lab unveiled › Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion. TOKYO — A state-of-the-art laboratory to grow vegetables and fruit using advanced technologies was shown to the press Tuesday in a lobby of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Ministry officials said people can harvest lettuce and tomatoes throughout the year [...]
ROUND-THE-JAPAN TRIP. This is cool, check it out. These guys build their own house in a truck and went all around Japan with it. Lots of pics in their site (click above)
DailyTech – NTT DoCoMo Unveils Japan’s First Google Android Phone. The HT-03A which comes in white or black, features a 3.2 inch touchscreen, 3.2 megapixel camera, microSD card slot, and weighs 123 grams. The phone will be able to download applications from the Android Market service using its wireless capabilities which include 802.11 b/g. Other [...]
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japanese firms unveil ‘robocop’. Two Japanese companies have unveiled a security robot that can be commanded from a mobile phone to hurl a net that traps suspected intruders. The prototype T-34 was developed jointly by robot firm Tmsuk Co and security firm Alacom Co. It moves at up to 10km/h [...]
Japan Optic Fiber Internet @ DannyChoo.com The optic connection we got is a 100Mbps Hikari line from NTT which costs a measly 1,022 yen per month for the first year Business lines do exist but cost about 40,000 yen per month for a 1Gb optic connection. For that price they guarantee a constant 1GB up n down. Another nice thing [...]
NEC develops Japanese-English interpretation software for cell phones › Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion. The new software is specialized for compact cell phone CPUs and provides automatic interpretation from Japanese to English and English to Japanese. Demonstrations of the software have been embedded in NEC cell phones, which independently provide interpretation without the need [...]
