Honda GPS Warns Drivers of High Crime Zones
Honda’s new GPS warns drivers when they’re about to leave their car in places where it is likely to be stolen, broken into or otherwise vandalized. The new technology, available from today if you live in Japan, links to local police statio...
Japan’s Astro Boy Robot Redesigned As a Fat Ass
Astro Boy, the robot Mickey Mouse of Japan with a machine gun in his ass and laser on his fingertip, has received his first major graphic overhaul in years. And they made him fat! The formerly svelte, doe-eyed bot with 100,000 horsepower looks like a ...
Japanese Multi-Level Bicycle Parking
The Multi-level bicycle park at Tokyo’s Kasai Station might sound like a crazy overblown way to tidy up the streets, but the woeful lack of available parking spaces at most Japanese train stations is a real problem. In some places legal parks ar...
Galbi Pod Rare Is the Beefiest iPod Nano Case, Perfect For Shabu Shabu
If you’re aiming for more “delicious” than “protective” for your iPod cases, there’s nothing that does it better than this Galbi (like Korean BBQ) Pod Rare case from Japan. It’s as if the creators tapped into ...
Japanese Men Perfect the Cloak of Invisibility Much to Japanese Women’s Dismay
Japan’s been tooling around with versions of invisibility cloaks for years now, but they seem to have finally perfected it. Theoretically. By using “left-handed metamaterials” to make electromagnetic control devices, researchers can ...
Ruby Pod Rare Is the Beefiest iPod Nano Case, Perfect For Shabu Shabu
If you’re aiming for more “delicious” than “protective” for your iPod cases, there’s nothing that does it better than this Ruby Pod Rare case from Japan. It’s as if the creators tapped into our collective cons...
Visual Search Engine Coming to iPhone in June
Evolution Robotics ViPR visual search technology is coming to the iPhone this June. ViPR allows you to take a photo of any movie, CD or book, send it to a server, and automagically get an email back loaded with information and links pointing to YouTub...