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This Japanese café is a haven for space geeks
If constellations and galaxies are your idea of morning-after chatter then Japan’s where your next date should be! This amazing café that is set up, albeit temporarily, recreates some visuals from a planetarium. Besides the star-studded interiors, the drinks in themselves are themed around planetary bodies and colored and shaded to represent their namesakes. Themed…
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Sony mistakenly slaps ‘Made in Japan’ tag on SRS-X11 speaker that was made in China
Sony is on a roll! Unfortunately they don’t quite seem to be rolling towards anything positive. In recent news it seems like there was a bit of an ‘error’ with their recently launched SRS-X11 portable Bluetooth speaker. While the speaker itself appears to be just fine and functions normally, the error is actually relatively minor,…
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Alibaba beats Amazon – Tested Delivery Drones in China
So imagine you order a product and are eagerly waiting for the delivery guy to knock on the door of your 10th floor apartment but instead there’s an ominous knock on your balcony window and voila, your package has arrived signed, sealed delivered via “air-mail”.
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Japan Has Big Plans for a Super Cool Underwater City
Wild ambition often leads to some pretty radical developments and some of those include building expansive underwater hotels and if the Japanese have it their way, a whole city. But it’s also ambition that takes an idea that’s perhaps already in motion and builds upon it making it bigger and maybe better than the original.
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Pay for your subway ride using the Nintendo 3DS LL
While we thought Apple Pay was revolutionary, Japan has been using contact less payments for more than a decade now. It started with RFID cards which were then embedded on cell phones, have now made their way to portable game consoles. Starting December 9th JR East a leading train operator in Japan will support Suica…
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Here’s what it feels to travel at 500 kmph in Japan’s maglev train
We’ve been talking about the maglev train and its wonders for over a year now. Truth is, Japan are just as efficient as you can expect them to be. The stunning 500 kmph (310 mph) running train has finally hit the tracks with passengers who couldn’t get enough of the experience. The Central Japan Railway…
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Tangerine flavored Kitkat celebrates 50 years of the Bullet train in Japan
Pear, Shinshu Apple, Purple Sweet Potato, Cinnamon Cookie, Hojicha Roasted tea, wouldn’t you be surprised if I told that these were are the flavors of KitKat which are available in the land of the rising sun? These are just some of the flavors that are available in Japan. And continuing this trend Nestle has announced…
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Green Crocs Factory in Japan uses Robots for Sorting Seedlings
The Osaka Prefecture University in Japan, the first completely artificial light type plant factory which uses Philips GreenPower LED Power module for lighting, conducted the tour of “Green Crocs new generation pre-tours of plant factory” on 19th of September. The very innovative Green Crocs new generation plant factory will be capable of producing leafy vegetables…
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Japan can’t just leave CDs and move on to Online Music
‘Made in Japan’ is a very common phrase that we have seen stamped on many products we use everyday. Japan has given us the Nintendo video game, the Honda cars, leading manufacturer of electronics, Sony, the list is endless. It’s no surprise that most of the Japanese people are technologically very advanced. But, when the…
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Worlds first Mario and Luigi action figures are here
September 9 marks another anniversary of the worlds most famous brothers – Mario and Luigi. Commemorating the Italian plumbers Bandai has released the worlds first posable figures Mario and Luigi figures. Just when you thought it does get better than this as you can get your hands on a load of optional parts from One…
