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Send a free drink to a friend with Japan’s newest coinless vending machines【Video】

Oona McGee
Mar 23, 2017
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We try out the new system at a high-tech digital vending machine in Tokyo.

Japan
(apps • cool • drinks • Shinjuku Station • Smartphones • technology • Tokyo • vending machines)

Japanese Android OBJECT project might soon be taking your life to the 22nd century

KK Miller
Mar 2, 2017

Android experiment OBJECT took over 200 submissions for ideas and produced these four futuristic products.

Japan
(Android • app • cool • OBJECT experiment • technology • video)

Instead of waiting for Nintendo’s Switch, this awesome gamer made his own portable Super Famicom

Casey Baseel
Mar 2, 2017

Sure, Nintendo’s upcoming hybrid system looks cool, but retro gamers are already gushing over this cool customization of a classic console.

Japan
(awesome • cool • nintendo • retro games • Super Famicom • Super NES • technology • video • video games)

AnkiSnap pen turns highlighting into a smartphone game that makes studying a breeze【Video】

Scott Wilson
Feb 10, 2017

Do you highlight things but still forget them? AnkiSnap might be able to help!

Japan
(cool • pens • smartphone app • studying • technology • video)

Clever Japanese mom creates unbeatable iPad ad-blocker that requires no downloads or updates

Casey Baseel
Feb 10, 2017

No programming skills? No problem for this inventive mother.

Japan
(ad-blocker • clever • cool • funny • ipad • moms • tblets • technology)

Heater-equipped hanten Japanese jackets mix modern technology and traditional winter fashion

Casey Baseel
Jan 25, 2017

Clever idea helps wearers cope with the cold with a new take on the retro garment.

Japan
(cold • fashion • hanten • heater • jackets • technology)

Starbucks teams up with Japanese clothing brand to create stylish new contactless payment system

Oona McGee
Jan 24, 2017

Check out how the cool crowd orders coffee at Starbucks in Japan.

Japan
(BEAMS • cafes • coffee • cool • fashion • marketing • Starbucks • technology)

Lonely Japanese gamers giddy over the prospect of getting to smell girls in VR titles

Casey Baseel
Jan 18, 2017

Will new technology let them really experience the scent of virtual girls?

Japan
(crazy • dating simulators • romance games • technology • video games • virtual reality • VR • weird)

Tokyo bus operator adds free-to-use USB chargers for tech-loving passengers

Casey Baseel
Jan 16, 2017

While you’re progressing towards your destination, your smartphone could be progressing towards a full charge.

Japan
(buses • cool • technology • Tokyo • transportation • travel • USB)

Tokyo Metro employs megaphone translation tech at station near Harajuku

Mike
Jan 5, 2017

The underground train operator has commissioned several real-time translation megaphones to facilitate communication with foreign customers.

Japan
(Harajuku • technology • Tokyo • Tokyo Metro)

Japanese designer creates beautiful VR map of his country, destroys it with laser beams【Video】

Andrew Kane
Dec 24, 2016

VoxelKei has been working to create the ultimate VR map of Japan, allowing people the chance to explore an extremely detailed rendering of the entire country. Oh, and also fire massive death rays at it.

Japan
(kaiju • lasers • technology • video • virtual reality • VR)

New white nurse uniforms use non-transparent fabric to hide underwear, receive backlash from men

Meg Murphy
Dec 17, 2016

“The technology is great, but from a man’s point of view….”

Japan
(clothing • nurses • nurses uniforms • technology • uniforms)

Live with a 3-D virtual servant inside your home with Gatebox, now available for pre-order【Video】

Scott Wilson
Dec 15, 2016

Azumi the holographic robot wants to brush teeth, watch TV, and send cute text messages together with you.

Japan
(AI • Gatebox • maids • robots • technology • video)

“I can’t tell if they’re real!” Robotic fish amaze Japanese Twitter with lifelike movements 【Vid】

Scott Wilson
Nov 9, 2016

Cut the carp and tell us if these are real already!

Japan
(cool • fish • robots • technology • video)

Amazon releases new Kindle model specifically designed for manga readers

Casey Baseel
Oct 20, 2016

Beefed-up specs and functions address the needs of Japanese comic fans.

Japan
(Amazon • anime • e-books • e-readers • Kindle • manga • technology)

IT infrastructure becomes cute anime girls in Japan’s latest educational anthropomorphism project

Casey Baseel
Oct 16, 2016

Whoa, check out the size of that girl’s DRAM!

Japan
(anime • anthropomorphism • books • computers • illustration • IT • technology)

Innovative electronic drumming pants makes touching yourself a musical affair

Joan Coello
Oct 15, 2016

“Ding ding ding-ding! Oh yeah!!” That’s what he said. Or rather, what his crotch said.

Japan
(music • musical instruments • pants • technology • video • wearable • weird)

Japan’s amazingly realistic CG schoolgirl learns how to kiss 【Video】

Casey Baseel
Oct 14, 2016

Saya puckers up while showing off a variety of uncannily lifelike facial expressions.

Japan
(art • CG • cool • Saya • schoolgirls • technology • video)

New Japanese video chat program adds digital makeup to the faces of female telecommuters 【Video】

Casey Baseel
Oct 13, 2016

Shiseido now has a cosmetics-free way to change your appearance.

Japan
(business • cosmetics • makeup • Shiseido • skype • technology • telecommuting • video)

Japan’s ‘agri-tech’ farming revolution

Japan Today
Oct 11, 2016

TOKYO — Japan’s high-tech agricultural businesses are to gather at the Agri World trade fair held in Tokyo this week (Oct 12-14) to showcase the industries next generation of technologies such as plant factories, robotic automation and IT systems, claimed as advancing the “fourth industrial revolution” into the sector.

Japan
(agri-tech • agriculture • Japan Today • technology)

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