Category: Gadgets

A Japanese guy has invented a new super-gadget that helps him to announce to the people sitting around him in which station he is planning to get off the train. Thanks to this gadget we will be able to sleep without having to worry about waking up because our fellow travelers will hopefully wake us up in our when we arrive to our destination.

This is the inventor trying his own thing.

And this is the first test recorded in a video. In the screen it says “I’m getting off in Mejiro station”. Cool, but it didn’t work! Nobody woke him up! Poor guy 🙂

Found at Pinktentacle and Interviews.jp

Since two weeks ago I’ve seen this ads in different places in Tokyo. They are cool, but I had no idea what was it all about:

It is a new Nikon gadget that was totally unexpected by the industry. The UP300 is a devices with headphones, an MP3 player with 8Gb, Windows Mobile 5.0 and a little screen where the user can see a screen equivalent to 51 inches. The UP300x version has 16Gb and the user can change the volume or change songs just moving the head. This is how the gadget looks like:

The most interesting about this Nikon “wearable computer” is that it is pretty cheap compared with previous similar devices. The UP300 8Gbps the same price as an iTouch 32Gb here in Japan. It’s pretty cool, but I think you need MORE and BETTER to create a new market/revolution.

Pictures by Akihabaranews.

Willcom D4 is a UMPC (UltraMobilePC) about which we talked about a while ago because it is one of the most little devices in the world being able to run Windows Vista. It was released a while ago but I did not have the chance to use until last week, it IS little… but it is much more bigger than I thought. The keyboard is so big that is difficult to type using it like a PSP, and I have pretty big hands!