Category: Technology

Last weekend I went to Akihabara and spend some time visiting the Tsukumo shop where they only have robots and robot related goodies. They are specialized in humanoid robots but they also have all kinds of electronic and mechanical components that you would need to build your own robot. Will Smith went to this shop when he came to Japan to promote his movie “I, Robot”, they are also one of the organizers of the Akihabara robot competitions.

Tons of books about robotics.

Will Smith visiting the shop, I wonder if he was attack by one of the robots.

It’s a Hello Kitty !

Today’s newspapers are featuring this cool cleaning robot and a liked it!

It cleans, and it’s kawai!

Read this article about how “keitai” (Japanese mobile phone) market is affecting personal computer market. Japan is going to be the first developed country in the world where the PC market shrinks. All major traditional personal computer makers such as Toshiba, Panasonic, Sony, Fujitsu, NEC… are now pretty focused on developing mobile devices.

Japanese kids create there first blog using a keitai, not a computer. They start chatting with their keitai, not with “MSN Messenger”. The second most visited web in Japan, Mixi.jp, has more visitors from keitais than from computers. In fact, Mixi.jp has more visitors from keitais only than Google Japan from computers. There are novelists who are writing full length novels with their keitai, and many people reads those books also with their mobile devices.

And here there is a capture from one of the last games for Docomo keitais.

Capture from Dannychoo’s post about Japanese keitai games