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Audi Unveils Ultra-Light Bicycle with Ultra-High Price in Japan

Audi has unveiled a bicycle in Japan. It is an ultralight high-end bicycle which weighs 5.8 kilograms in total including the frame of the sports bike which maxes out at ...

May 20, 2015 at 10:51 am by

Sony Launches Xperia A2

Sony has just made Xperia A2 official in Japan. We are familiar with Sony’s practices of launching devices in the country before teh US and Europe markets; Sony has ...

May 20, 2015 at 4:58 am by

Drone Lands Radioactive Sand on Japanese Prime Minister’s Office

A 40-year old Japanese man has admitted to being the drone operator that carried radioactive sand to the top of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s office in central Tokyo. All ...

April 26, 2015 at 5:58 pm by

Man Sword-Fights Against a Robot Arm

The Japanese scoff at the idea of banning killer robots, and instead are teaching them to sword-fight. Both robot and human combatants are only using foam swords in the ...

April 15, 2015 at 7:31 pm by

Square Enix Plans on Revealing New JRPG Later on This Year

Since mobile gaming has picked up in the recent years, all major development in Japan has shifted from consoles and handheld to smartphones and tablets. Even Square Enix has ...

March 19, 2015 at 1:55 am by

Scientsits Find a Way to Wirelessly Transmit Energy across 55 Meters

Japanese scientists from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency have announced that they have been successful in transmitting energy wirelessly and with high accuracy, being ...

March 16, 2015 at 7:55 pm by

Soft Exo-Suit Boosts Strength Without Motors

Artificial exoskeletons and exo-suits have been shown to increase the strength, speed, and endurance of humans, usually with the help of tough frames, motors, and electronics. ...

February 24, 2015 at 9:58 pm by

Flip Phones Still Popular in Japan While Smartphone Sales Stall

Remember flip phones? Phones like the insanely popular Moto Razr? They were all the rage before the smartphone came along. Well, actually, flip phones aren’t dead yet, ...

February 18, 2015 at 5:58 am by

Sony Closing PlayStation Chip Factory, Increasing CMOS Sensor Production

A Sony press release has revealed that the company is to cease operations at the Japanese Sony Semiconductor Oita Technology Center (Oita TEC) in Kunisaki, Oita Prefecture. ...

February 5, 2015 at 4:58 am by

Dragon’s Dogma Online to be Free-to-Play for PC, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 3

Details on Capcom’s Dragon’s Dogma Online have emerged, thanks to Japanese video game magazine Famitsu. The MMORPG will be free-to-play, but rely on microtransactions in ...

January 28, 2015 at 4:58 pm by

20th Anniversary PS4 Bought for $130,000

Thought those sales of 20th Anniversary PS4s couldn’t get any crazier? Well they just have. It turns out that someone has bought one of the prestigious units in Japan ...

January 27, 2015 at 1:58 pm by

Giant Mech Robot Available Through Amazon for $1 Million

If $1 million to become a real-life Power Ranger sounds reasonable, then you’ll love Kuratas. The passion project of blacksmith Kogoro Kurata, the Kuratas machine is a ...

January 19, 2015 at 10:58 pm by

See Famous Paintings as Raw Data

Now we all know how much effort can go into a painting by a person, but exactly how much goes into a painting by a computer? Japanese artist Yousuke Ozawa set out to ...

January 5, 2015 at 6:29 pm by

World’s Largest Floating Solar Power Plant Coming to Japan

Renewable energy venture Kyocera TCL has announced plans for a floating 13.4 MW solar power plant on the Yamakura Dam reservoir in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. In terms of ...

December 28, 2014 at 10:28 pm by

Transparent Firefox Phone Set for Christmas Day Release in Japan

Mozilla and Japanese mobile operator KDDI is releasing an impressive-looking transparent smartphone, the Fx0, carrying the Firefox OS, on Christmas Day in Japan. Though the ...

December 26, 2014 at 8:17 am by

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