Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts

12/14/12

From Emotionless Japan "Tailly" Is Unveiled

From Emotionless Japan Tailly Is Unveiled

In the past two years or so, we have seen some really creative, high-tech Japanese "communication" devices unveiled like Japan's New Communication w/ Yourself Invention, Japanese Cats Ears For "Communication" and Japanese Virtual Web Sex Technology which features the "PenisTron" and a "Communication Hole Rider" that allows users to anonymously experience virtual sex via the internet. It's all somewhat complicated but apparently we humans "can still have sex because it's just data." O.O

Now a company known as Kiluck, which handled the production of the “necomimi” or "cat's ears", brings us the all new excitement communication device known as "Tailly", the tail that wags when you get excited! This has to be seen to be believed:



From Kiluck's official kickstarter page we found the following description: "Tailly is a wearable wagging tail which reacts to the user’s heart rate. When you wear Tailly, you’ll radiate cuteness and happiness!"

Mmmmmkkkaaaayyy, so what about just smiling, laughing and actually saying your true feelings instead?

Nope.

Why?

Because Japan.

We expect this device to become very popular, very quickly in Japan when released. It will be available in various colors:

From Emotionless Japan Tailly Is Unveiled

See also:

WTF Japanese Yahoo Auction of The Earth!

Because Japan: Japan Automatic Door Co.

11/1/12

Julie Watai Power Loader Self Portrait

Julie Watai Power Loader Self Portrait

Just published yesterday, here is a beautiful new fine art self portrait of Julie Watai wearing Activelink's Power Loader robotic exoskeleton suit. This suit gives its operator superhuman strength and can enable workers to become real life terminator cyborgs. Well, not really. Below is a short demonstration video on how this technology works:



See also:

New Julie Watai Self Portrait

Iiniku Ushijima Photo by Julie Watai

5/14/11

Julie Watai's Furby Toy Video

Japan's cutest digital artist geek Julie Watai demonstrates how to bend the circuits and change a Furby toy:




See also: Japan's Adult Toys Robot Nation

2/25/11

LIVE FROM JAPAN: THE WORLD'S FIRST ROBOT MARATHON!

Just a few days ago, I wrote about the Attack of The Japanese Baby Robots! and now THEY ARE TRAINING THEM IN THE WORLD'S FIRST ROBOT MARATHON:

"And now here is Kenny Blankenship and Vic Ramano!"



"Your Humble Announcer: MXC is back with more city kids vs. farm kids. It's street ho's versus...oh, forget it."


(@_@)

2/24/11

Japan vs USA Robots

The below pic says it all:



And as I have heard many say: "There is only one country in the world that makes robots like people and people like robots."

Don't think so? See below:

Japan Perfects Robots

O_O


Here is one of the video highlights from world's first robot marathon held recently in Osaka, Japan:



(*_*)

2/10/11

Coming Soon: "NINGEN GAKKI"

Like music? Thinking of starting a band? Well, very soon from now, you'll be able to move to Japan and BE the band with the new "Ningen Gakki" or "Human Instrument" toy from TAKARA TOMI:



ningen

2/9/11

STOP THE INTERNET KILL SWITCH!

Dear Friends,

Have you heard about the “internet kill switch”? It gives governments the technical or legal power to cut off their entire country’s internet access, and it’s no longer just a pipedream of dictators, but a very real threat to all of us who use the internet around the world.

Egypt used it last week, Austria’s already got it, the U.S. has a law drafted to establish it, while other governments across the globe are testing to see how easily they could plunge their country into an information blackout. And they can do it one of two ways: either by creating the legal authority that gives them the power to demand that the internet service providers (ISPs) operating in their country shut down, or by configuring a “switch” that controls their country’s entire internet infrastructure.

Just because we use the internet everyday, doesn’t mean we always will be able to do so. A global movement of internet users can help stop our governments (democratic and authoritarian alike) from acquiring an internet kill switch, but only if we act fast. Add your name to our global "Stop the Switch" petition, which we'll deliver to those countries considering the switch and globally to the United Nations, which is meeting soon to discuss freedom of speech online:

https://www.accessnow.org/Stop-the-Switch

From Australia to Zimbabwe, we see how vital access to the internet, both on computers and mobile phones, is for people to freely express themselves. An internet kill switch puts your ability to communicate with friends and family online in jeopardy by placing control over the internet firmly into the hands of your government, who may not necessarily have your interests and rights in mind when they flip the switch.

With the U.S. just a few votes away from giving President Obama and any of his successors ultimate control over the country’s internet access, imagine what is being considered in other countries across the world. We need a global internet uprising to protect our rights, and we are starting at the top with the United Nations. Please join our call before the internet kill switch becomes the global norm:

https://www.accessnow.org/Stop-the-Switch

As online communication becomes an increasingly important part of all aspects of our lives, governments have sought to censor, filter, surveil, and now, shut off access to these vital tools. Just imagine if your government decided to switch your internet -- and you -- off.

In Egypt, using powers granted to Mubarak under emergency law, the government was able to shut off the internet with a couple of phone calls to each of the internet service providers (ISPs) operating in Egypt. Egyptians employed innovative work-arounds to avoid the shutdown like using international dial-up, but do we really want to resort to that? Lets draw a line in the sand as governments around the world race to acquire an "internet kill switch."

Governments habitually put their own survival above the well being of their people. The only real deterrent to the internet kill switch is us -- a global movement for digital freedom; please join the international campaign to “Stop the Switch!”


https://www.accessnow.org/Stop-the-Switch

With hope,
The Access Team

P.S. If you missed our live web symposium last week on The Middle East, The Revolution, & The Internet, you can watch it at: https://www.accessnow.org/policy-activism/press-blog/The-Middle-East-The-Revolution-And-The-Internet

P.P.S. You can also read Access' open letter to Vodafone's CEO here: https://www.accessnow.org/policy-activism/press-blog/open-letter-from-access-to-the-ceo-of-vodafone

For more information on the internet kill switch see:

http://opennet.net/blog/2011/01/egypt%E2%80%99s-internet-blackout-extreme-example-just-time-blocking

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/05/INO91HHD7P.DTL

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/global-net-crackdown-to-shatter-utopian-internet-experts-20110204-1ag3i.html?from=smh_sb

http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20029282-281.html

11/24/09

Japanese Virtual Web Sex Technology

Maybe not safe for work (NSFW), here is another example of how some Japanese scientists continue to improve masturbation devices through virtual web sex:

4/28/09

Japanese Fashion Model Robot 2009

Not exactly a supermodel, indeed. Its the all new HRP-4C developed by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan and unveiled at the recent Japan Fashion Week 2009 in Tokyo. The price of this 'model' is $1.97 million! Quite an expensive entry into the Uncanny Valley:



Via Dumpbase.net

12/3/08

Wired Video: Nintendo DSi Review



Wired.com's Chris Kohler and Daniel Dumas review the
Nintendo DSi which is now ONLY available in Japan.

Via Wired.com

1/29/06

Japanese Lab Develops Robot for Getting Up and Getting Beers Out of The Fridge

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Japanese Lab Develops Robot for Getting Up and Getting Beers Out of The Fridge

By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press Writer Fri Jan 27, 2006

"When Hara asks for a bottle of juice, the two demonstrate a more advanced task, one relays the instruction to the other, saying "Please take care of this."

The second robot huddles to a refrigerator, stands in front of it for a while, saying "Confirming the location of the refrigerator." Then he says "Searching for the juice," slowly opens the door with a right hand, grabs a bottle of drink with his left hand, shuts the fridge, then walks back to him, squats down at the table and carefully places it on the coffee table.

"Thank you!" Hara says."


HOLY SHINTO! I WANT ONE NOW!!!!!!