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Thanko USB Spot Cooling Fan with HEPA Filter for Office and Home
Thanko famous for its innovative, friendly and affordable gizmos today announced the USB Spot Cooling Fan with Hepa filter. The HEPA filter does not allow to pass pollen(PM2.5) and is used in high-performance commercial air purifiers. They are expensive and non-reusable. Here if the filter gets dirty, it can be washed with water. There is…
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Straight from Japan – A capsule styled backpack designed to carry your pet
The walking backpack from Japan-based Thanko is a convenient and eye-catching backpack in which you can carry your pet with you. The capsule design type backpack has a transparent astronaut-like helmet cover from which your pet can peek out. The backpack comes with a small chain to lock your pet. For the comfort of the…
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DoCoMo and Toyota Conduct Successful Remote Control of T-HR3 Humanoid Robot Using 5G
NTT DoCoMo and Toyota have successfully controlled the Toyota-developed T-HR31 humanoid robot in trials using fifth-generation mobile communications2 (5G) under a test environment with control from a remote location (a distance of approximately 10 kilometers) using 5G in an area between two points. The trials confirmed that the T-HR3 is capable of performing tasks that…
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Robot Avatars at DAWN Café in Tokyo Shows How People with Severe Disabilities Can Work
DAWN Cafe in Akasaka, Tokyo, will be staffed by robot avatars remotely controlled by people with severe disabilities, including patients with ALS. Powered by real intelligence, the robot avatars will be able to take customers order, bring ordered food and drinks, and also respond to any questions or requests. The robots at DAWN Cafe are…
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Someone made a Smartphone controlled bottle opener
The ‘Internet of things’ is being touted as the next big thing. It’s a world in which every device from your microwave to your washing machine to your toaster is smart, they talk with each other, are connected to the Internet and can be controlled remotely. Nidec a company in Japan has taken this vision…
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It was not a design flaw but malware that took out the Death Star
Everyone needs a lesson from Disney when it comes to milking a franchisee. Kaspersky Labs in Japan has takes to Star Wars to help promote its Internet security suite. Building up on a story that along with the braveness of the resistance pilots it was weak data security on the Imperial Forces systems that led…
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A mouse that measures and diagnoses your heart rate
Its been a while since we have been hearing that ‘sitting’ is the new smoking. Most of us are glued on to their workstations, staring at the screens for hours and hours at a stretch. The ill effects rising from it have given away to a host of inventions right from the standing desk to…
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Advanced Levitating Millennium Falcon model created by ardent Japanese Star Wars fan
To celebrate the new Star Wars film Rogue One that released this December, ardent Japanese Star Wars fan and Twitter user @HanakiMasatoshi decided to build a neat, cutting-edge model of the Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon, and introduced a twist to the model. What gives this model an edge over other models that other fans have…
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Tokyo airport now has toilet paper for smartphones
Talk abut some slick marketing. NTTDoCoMo one of Japan’s largest mobile operator has developed a smartphone only toilet paper. These special rolls are installed at the toilets of Tokyo’s Narita airport. Their purpose, well, to clean your smartphone screen and rid the phone of germs. The toilet paper is printed with vital information which include…
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USB powered cup warmer is what we need this Christmas
‘Winter is coming’ and unlike in Westeros we have a major concern. Keeping the cuppa warm. Japan based Thanko is to the rescue and like with most of its products it is also USB based. A USB powered paper cup warmer which will ensure that your Pumpkin Lattes are always at 60 – 70 degrees.
