Japan’s pollen solution: Spite hay fever, cut off your nose...
It's Friday, so it's time for me to play it straight and get down with the CNNGo guys. Revisiting the good old hay fever nose blockers this time. Yoroshiku, ne...
via cnngo.com
Sony goes Disney with a Mickey Mouse-flavored lineup of new Walkman models
Nothing out of the ordinary there, but the stand might appeal to a few retro holdout fans of the rat.
I've had Yaki Soba sandwiches before, but never like this...
The sub roll type is normal (and usually vile) but this odd arrangement from SunKus was really rather good. Call me strange all you like! \(^_^)/
Live 3D Premier League soccer/football coming to UK in May
Satellite broadcaster Sky says it'll be providing live matches in 3D towards the end of the current season in May.
Viewers will need a special LG TV set and 3D glasses, of course, but a full 1080p image is still promised. Whether or not wearing the tech-heavy glasses to watch a game will appeal to pub-goers and couch potatoes across the nation remains to beseen, of course. Full details in the press release below - give it a while to load...
Processing 3D video? Sony's Cell-based rig can be yours for ¥2.6mill!
The MPE-200 multimedia processor goes on sale next week for an actually quite reasonable ¥2,625,000 ($30,000), considering what it offers. Bet James Cameron paid a bit more than that for his.
That linked press release below is in Japanese, but click here for a rough and ready MT if you're feeling lazy - it covers the basics at least.
And if I was still a 'proper' journalist working for The Man, I'd be required to mention here that the MPE-200 uses the same Cell Broadband Engine processor as found in the PlayStation 3, possibly putting (PS3) in brackets too just to clarify for the hard of thinking, but I've packed that in for the PR life of Riley, so I won't bother. You can work it out for yourselves, right? :-)
via sony.jp
DoCoMo's new 'vision of the future' video online now, if anyone cares...
It's the usual corporate guff, really, but there are a few nods to overseas expansion, such as the tie-up with Tata in India.
UQ and NEC to add 50% more WiMax base stations across Japan by end of March
Tokyo, March 10, 2010 - NEC Corporation (NEC) announced today that UQ
Communications has expanded its WiMAX service with NEC's base
stations.
for the 2009 fiscal year from 4,000 to more than 6,000 base stations
by the end of March 2010. UQ Communications selected two vendors to
develop and produce WiMAX base stations. NEC's base stations began
operation in the UQ WiMAX commercial network today and will be used to
expand service area nationwide. NEC is delivering the WiMAX "PasoWings BS202" base station, which has
secured WiMAX Forum Wave2 (2.5GHz) certification, an international
standard that indicates superior interoperability between vendors. UQ communications is proactively expanding its coverage area and
expects that the installation of NEC's base stations will contribute
to accelerated service expansion, flexibility and stabilization.
Via NEC
Sanyo to power traffic signals with Li-ion batteries during natural disasters
It's in Tokushima in Shikoku, western Japan, and is intended to keep traffic lights on after the commercial power grid has been disrupted by an earthquake or other problem.
The 19kg batteries can power the signals for up to two and a half hours, which seems moderately useful, but how serious a problem is the loss of traffic direction after a major quake?
via sanyo.com
Otaku blogger builds DIY Steadicam for iPhone
One has to assume this was more about the challenge than the end result - nice work, though.
via iwted.miyachan.cc [Japanese]
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