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Floating hologram registers coming to Japanese convenience stores【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Jan 30, 2022
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Contactless self-checkouts make Japan’s konbini even more konbinient.

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• Japan
• (7-Eleven • cash register • conveniece stores • futuristic • holograms • Japanese convenience stores • new • news • self-checkout • shopping • tech • technology • toshiba)

Japanese company engineers soft toys that will nibble your finger, for folks who are into that

• Katy Kelly
  Jan 16, 2022

Finally, a toy for masochists who only want to be nibbled at a teeny-tiny bit!

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• Japan
• (cats • cute • dogs • funny • playbiting • plushies • stuffed animals • technology • weird)

Japanese rail fans heartbroken as Tokyo-area Keikyu chooses to retire its last pata pata sign

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 13, 2022

It’s a sign of the times as sign loved for its sound and style gets swept aside for more modern alternative.

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• Japan
• (kawasaki • Keikyu • stations • technology • trains • video)

Gorgeous Pokémon sculpture made from beer bottles and crystal candy

• Katie Pask
  Jan 11, 2022

Creative YouTuber also makes Pokémon that actually charge phones, act as speakers, and more.

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• Japan
• (art • awesome • clay • creative • figure • figurine • figurines • froslass • Pokemon • rare Pokémon • sweets • technology • toys)

Sega builds “world’s fastest gaming PC,” is giving it away for free (processor speed unknown)【Vid】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 29, 2021

Video backs up claim that this is the fastest PC ever made (by one metric), and also possibly the craziest.

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• Japan
• (computers • cool • crazy • funny • gaming PCs • PC • RC cars • Sega • technology • video • video games • werid)

Tokyo police admit to losing 38 citizens’ personal data…that was stored on floppy disks

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 29, 2021

Data for 2021 investigation was provided on format most people stopped using more than a decade ago.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • floppy disk • funny • police • technology • Tokyo Metropolitan Police • weird)

Final Fantasy scene plays out on 3-D billboard in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Dec 20, 2021

Shinra goes on the hunt for Red XIII, who winds up taking a nap and falling into a box of toys.

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• (3-D • ads • advertising • billboards • cool • Final Fantasy • Final Fantasy VII remake • marketing • news • Square Enix • technology • video games)

Major Japanese phone company rolls out a brand-new flip phone

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 9, 2021

Shiny new old-school tech isn’t aimed only at people not ready to let go of what’s always worked for them.

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• Japan
• (AU • feature phones • flip phones • garakei • KDDI • phones • society • technology)

Lawson convenience store sets up shop in Japan’s Parareal Akihabara metaverse

• Master Blaster
  Dec 1, 2021

Those stores really are everywhere.

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• Japan
• (convenience stores • Lawson • metaverse • otaku • Parareal Akihabara • technology • Virtual Market • virtual reality • Vket • VR)

Japanese company starts paid service to attach protective film to your smartphone for you

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 29, 2021

Docomo, Japan’s largest telecom provider, launches Film Attachment Support program, but it’ll cost you.

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• Japan
• (clever • COK • Docomo • NTT • phones • protective film • Smartphones • technology • weird)

Revolutionary technology: Japanese company’s new vertical monitor for social media browsing

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 24, 2021

New design promises benefits for content creators too.

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• Japan
• (clever • cool • monitors • Nojima • social media • technology • weird)

Vintage coin-operated “weight machine” found in Kyoto stationery store

• Master Blaster
  Nov 17, 2021

Somewhere along the way we forgot how to make weighing yourself fun.

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• Japan
• (antiques • COK • cool • Kyoto • scale • SNJO • technology • weight machine • weird)

Hyogo man arrested for stalking woman through her bank account

• Master Blaster
  Nov 8, 2021

Suspect made dozens of one-yen transfers in two weeks.

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• Japan
• (bank transfer • banking • crime • Hyogo • Internet banking • stalker • stalking • strange • technology)

Convenience store Family Mart employs its first robot stocker

• Master Blaster
  Nov 4, 2021

This is not the cat-monster robot future I was promised.

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• (convenience stores • cool • Family mart • Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry • robots • technology • Telexistence • video)

We buy the lowest-rated alarm clock on Amazon Japan

• Master Blaster
  Oct 26, 2021

How bad can it really be?

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• Japan
• (alarm clocks • Amazon • Amazon Japan • cover • customer reviews • ratings • shopping • technology)

Honey, I’ve shrunk the Japanese bath controls! New miniatures celebrate a home icon

• Oona McGee
  Oct 23, 2021

Tiny panels talk to you and play melodies, just like the real thing. 

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• Japan
• (Bandai • bathing • baths • capsule toys • COK • cute • gacha • gacha toys • hot water • Japanese baths • Japanese technology • Noritz • technology • weird • winter)

Man uses AI to “destroy” censor mosaics in Japanese adult videos, gets arrested by Kyoto police

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 22, 2021

It’s debatable whether or not what he did was actually destruction, but the police say there’s no question it was a crime.

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• Japan
• (AI • beautiful women • censorship • crazy • crime • mosaic • technology • weird)

New “boss’ treat” vending machines in Japan give out free drinks if you use them with a coworker

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 22, 2021

You don’t need to bring any money as long as you remember to bring a buddy.

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• Japan
• (cool • drinks • free • society • Suntory • technology • vending machines • video • working in Japan)

TeamLab collaborates with vegan ramen shop, creates the most photogenic noodle spot in Tokyo

• Katie Pask
  Oct 14, 2021

Need some stunning digital art with your plant-based vegan ramen? We’ve got just the place for you!

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• Japan
• (art • art instillation • beautiful • food • plant-based • ramen • restaurants • TeamLab • TeamLab Planets • teamLabo • technology • Tokyo • vegan • vegan ramen)

Google Japan unveils tea-cup shaped keyboard with open-source all-fish input system

• Master Blaster
  Oct 6, 2021

Someday our grandchildren will wonder what life was like before we all typed on tea cups.

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• Japan
• (cool • crazy • design • funny • Gboard Yunomi Version • Google • keyboard • tea • tea cups • technology • weird • yunomi)

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