SoraNews24 —Japan News—

Bringing you yesterday's news from Japan and Asia, today.

RocketNews24 Japanese

Featured

Yahoo! Japan makes thrill-rides out of their trending search topics with “Trend Coaster”

In the month of September at limited locations in Tokyo, the nation’s perennial favorite search engine Yahoo! Japan is offering a one-of-a-kind experience. By stepping into their motion simulator and strapping on a VR headset, you can virtually yet literally ride the waves of popularity of any topic of your choosing as if it were a roller coaster.

The concept is rather simple. When you select a keyword the number of people searching it on Yahoo! Japan at any moment will correspond to an elevation of the track. In other words, a real-time line graph of the number of searches will be transformed into a roller coaster track for you to ride on.

Choosing the hot topic of the moment is essential for an exciting ride. You can go with a stalwart topic like “Frozen” or “iPhone” for a reasonably bumpy ride or try to hit that truly breaking trending topic in the moment for the ultimate peaks and valleys.

For example, the Trend Coaster website posted some sample runs of different search items. Here are the tracks and speeds for “Yo-kai Watch,” “Adidas,” and “iPhone” respectively.

They all generated reasonable speeds from 100 to 700km/h (435mph), but you might have noticed a ranking for each run as well with iPhone giving only the 44th wildest ride. The top trending term so far was for tennis player Ken “Nishikori” after his stellar performance at the US Open, resulting in a maximum force of 26G’s and height of 670m.

Actually all of the top three rides were from “Nishikori” searches. However, that doesn’t mean you’ll get the same results if you go. The data is all real-time so you have to make sure you get what’s hot at that moment. My sciatica’s been acting up lately so I’ll probably just search for something like “pets.com” and enjoy a nice relaxing cruise.

Information

Yahoo! Trend Coaster

12 – 15 September
11:00 – 20:00
Palette Town Store, Tokyo Leisureland

17 – 18 September
10:00 – 19:00
ad:tech Tokyo, Tokyo International Forum

Source: Yahoo! Trend Coaster (Japanese)
Video: YouTube – iPodStyleMovie

Like this:

Like Loading…

Related Stories

Trackbacks

  1. There are no trackbacks yet.
  2. Trackback URL

Trending Today

  1. Japan ends tax-free shopping system for foreign tourists, new refund request system now in effect
  2. Beautiful Ghibli diorama kits lets you build anime characters’ homes inside yours [Photos]
  3. Japan’s TeamLab digital art group is opening a permanent museum in America
  4. Japan’s mini Shikoku Pilgrimage walking tour left us feeling immensely satisfied
  5. This hot spring near Osaka’s Kansai Airport resolves the pick-two-out-of-three bathhouse dilemma
  6. Starbucks Japan invites us to par-tea with its new Earl Gray Frappuccino [Taste test]
  7. Tokyo Skytree set to offer breathtaking Diamond Fuji natural phenomenon view this month
  8. Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
  9. This semi-secret, totally free footbath in downtown Tokyo is completely awesome
  10. Shoplifting prevention guard arrested for shoplifting boot from store he was guarding

© SoraNews24 —Japan News— / SOCIO CORPORATION

Powered by WordPress VIP

%d