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Wii Console – Japanese Version

cosa — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:16:34 +0000

2 SD card expansion slots. Supports NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, TurboGrafix16 games. Wireless controller. Supports 12cm Wii Disc and 8cm GameCube Disc. Language: Japanese. Stand(x1) Sensor Bar(x1) A

TG Sambo’s new 18.4-inch all-in-one nettop for Japanese Market

shiro — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:05:49 +0000

TG sambo announced to launch their new 18.4-inch all-in-one nettop for JApanese market in October 15. This nettop computer has clean design wich makes it elegant. To process your command, this nettop using Intel Atom N270 as their processor. The product is rolls out with bundled of Windows XP Home Edition (OMG!! Why they forget about Vista). Using 1GB of RAM, 160 HDD, DVD multi drive and intel 945G SE Express chipset.

This nettop has dimention of 287×214x33 mm and 4 kg of wieght. Get it home in 69800 JPY.

Talking Japanese Watch

cosa — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:18:37 +0000

There are many ways to learn other languages. Take a course for example, get a dictionary, or buy a pocket e-dictionary. But learning Japanese language would never be the same with this cool “Talking Japanese Watch”. This wristwatch, priced at just $24, will tell you the current time in Japanese, so at least you can learn a bit about it and later, whenever your friend asks you the time, you can tell him in Japanese.

Talking Japanese Watch is created by Marchand de Legumes. It is available in several different bright colors, but unfortunately out of stock. Oh, btw, it’s not water resistant, so once you manage to get one, don’t forget to stay away from water.

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[CEATEC] Sharp and IBM Present Japanese – English Translator

cosa — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:00:56 +0000

Together with IBM, Sharp presented its latest two-way pocket translator that comes with (only) Japanese and English languages dictionary. Thanks to its built-in microphone, you don’t have to waste your energy to type the words. All you have to do is simply saying the words, in English for example, and the device will automatically display the Japanese translation right away. Probably not the best tool to learn Japanese language, but it’d definitely come in handy when you travel to Japan without proper language skill.

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Sony Ericsson SO902i Cell Phone

cosa — Sat, 06 May 2006 08:00:38 +0000

The SO902i cell phone is a W-CDMA cell phone from Sony Ericsson that is currently available only in Japan. Measures 109 x 45 x 20 mm and weighs 102 grams, this Symbian-based smartphone features a 1.9-inch 262K colors QVGA display, a primary 3 megapixel camera module and another 1.3 megapixel camera module for doing the video calls / conference, and integrated digital music player (not sure about the supported audio format though, but I guess MP3 is a must). No information about internal memory capacity, however, a Memory Stick Duo slot is included, so you can be sure that you have additional room for storing your music files, photos, and data.

Sony Ericsson SO902i cell phone is available in several flavours, including dark blue, brown, and white hues. Not sure about the price.

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Japanese Lamp-Shaped USB Speaker

cosa — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:06:03 +0000

What do I like about the Japanese people is that they can always come up with something unique. Eventhough not all of their invention are useful, and sometimes kinda weird too, I must admit that most of them are beyond my imagination (hey, my star is Aquarius, so I suppose to have a LOT of creativity ).

Thanks to Thanko (hmmm, that’s rhyme), I could now update my Japanese product list with this Japanese Lamp-shaped USB Speaker. It’s a lamp than can also act as a speaker. No external power source needed since it uses the power from your USB port.

I think this device would fall into my Cool category on the list.

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NEC’s HSDPA – 10 Mbps On Your Phone

cosa — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:15:23 +0000

NEC is ready to release their HSDPA (High Speed Download Packet Access) on the commercial market. Collaborated with Vodafone Japan, HSDPA able to provide 8 ~ 10 Mbps data transfer rate on a cell phone! Soon there won’t be any different between a home computer and a phone, right?

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Live Lobster Vending Machine

cosa — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:00:46 +0000

The japanese really sells everything using the vending machine. While they’ve already bored with the soda, rice, and ice cream’s vending machines, they invent something new to provide instant food source, the live lobster vending machine.

A vending machine is a machine that dispenses merchandise when a customer deposits money sufficient to purchase the desired item (as opposed to a shop, where the presence of personnel is required for every purchase). It is believed to have been first invented by Hero of Alexandria, a 1st century inventor. His machine accepted a coin and then dispensed a fixed amount of “holy water“. [ source ]

As you can see in the image, you can catch a real live lobster using the old UFO catcher crane-and-claw-based arcade games vending machine. You can find it in Sapporo and try your skill for 100 yen or less than $1.

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Japanese Vending Machines

cosa — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:00:06 +0000

People in Japan surely love vending machines. It is said that there is one vending machine for every 20 Japanese people. In 2000, the sales from vending machines totaled $56 billion! Like in many other countries, the most common vending machines in Japan are drink and cigarette machine. But there are many unique and interesting type of vending machine in Japan. Looks like they’re trying to sell everything possible through that machine.

Photomann has a large collection of vending machines photograph in Japan. As I said above, some of them are unique, and even strange. For example, here’s an egg vending machine which supplies fresh egg from farm.

Next we have a rice vending machine. You can buy 10 kilo bags of rice for $30 – $40 here.

The one on the left is an ice cream vending machine, while on the right is rhinoceros beetles!

See? They even sell animal using vending machine.

For more vending machines photograph, just visit Photomann website (link below).

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Useless Japanese Inventions

cosa — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:45:35 +0000

And we thought all of the Japanese products are cool and wonderful

This page has a screenshot of 18 strange and useless Japanese inventions. From the first screenshot, it looks like all those screenshots are taken from a book titled “101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions“. Uh, unuseless?

Here are some of my favourites: