2008年10月28日火曜日

Samsung's Haptic 2 Phone First to Use Immersion's VibeTonz System for User Design of Touch Feedback - FierceWireless

Immersion Launches Do-It-Yourself Haptic 2 Phone
Immersion Corporation, the leading developer and licensor of touch feedback technology, announces the launch of the first mobile phone that lets users design their own haptic effects to personalize touch feedback, the Samsung Haptic 2.
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Samsung's Haptic 2 Phone First to Use Immersion's VibeTonz System for User Design of Touch Feedback (FierceWireless)

2008年10月26日日曜日

Japanese Innovation on Robots - Household Chores

Japanese Innovation on Robots

A new robot developed by Tokyo University and Toyota Motor Corp., is able to collect the washing and move furniture for cleaning.

東京大学とトヨタ自動車が共同で洗濯物の片付けなどの家事を手伝うロボットを開発 (FNN News)

Now Japanese vendors develop robots to help with household chores.

HONDA ASIMO







Toyota Motor Corp.





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Hitachi



Fujitsu



NEC



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Murata



There had a famous robots animation, "Atomic Boy" in Japan. In spite of being born as a robot, he had a kind heart and a friendship with people. The creator of this animation was Mr. Osamu Tezuka. The society would be realized in the future, that human being and robots could coexist. If we had dream, we could realize our dream in some days.

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2008年10月20日月曜日

NEC announced a NetBook, “LaVie Light”

Interesting.
NEC announced a NetBook,“LaVie Light”.


NEC Corporation and NEC Personal Products Ltd., a fully owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, announced that NEC Personal Products has developed a new series of notebook PCs - the “LaVie Light” - designed for users who need a PC for easy access to the Internet and e-mail applications. The first model in the series becomes available for sale today in Japan.
The LaVie Light, which targets the “NetBook” market, features Intel’s(R) Atom(TM) processor N270, a maximum HDD capacity of 160 GB, and the official Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Home Edition Service Pack3. It also offers the support, quality, and user friendliness that customers have come to expect from NEC, which the company has cultivated through its long years of experience in the personal computer market.
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NEC Releases “LaVie Light,” a new computer series targeting the NetBook market

2008年10月16日木曜日

Samsung Return to U.S. Notebook PC Market

Samsung Electronics plan to re-enter U.S. Notebook PC Market
Samsung Electronics America, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Corporation, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, today announced its highly anticipated entrance in the U.S. notebook market. The product line-up includes notebooks in four different categories—Premium Thin & Light, All Purpose, Business, Desktop Replacement, and the Netbook segment.
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SAMSUNG Enters The U.S. Notebook And Netbook Market With Comprehensive Line Of Premium Portables (Samsung)



2008年10月10日金曜日

Tokyo Game Show 2008 in Japan

The Tokyo Game Show 2008 was held in Japan.
You could see new experiences from the following video.

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2008年10月9日木曜日

Google Enters Digital Game Ad

Google announced that they would provide the new Ad services in the online gaming. Google is working with these game developers and publishers, Konami, Playfish, Zynga, and others.

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米グーグル、ゲーム向けにネット広告 コナミなどと協力 (Nikkei Shinbun)



2008年10月8日水曜日

ASUS Launches Fashion-Friendly Eee PC Model, S101

Interesting
ASUS Launches New Eee PC S101
ASUS today launched the Eee PC S101, an exquisitely designed netbook for fashion forward individuals who view style as as much of a factor of success as substance. The Eee PC™ S101 builds upon the industry-pioneering form factor, ergonomics and features of its predecessors but boasts a wholly reforged exterior in three gorgeous colors—Brown, Champagne or Graphite—accentuated with delightful details such as premium Infusion finishes and crystal-adorned hinges, a successful melding of fashion and functionality that easily situates it at the pinnacle of netbook computing.
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ASUS Launches Fashion-Friendly Eee PC™ Model, S101 (ASUS)

2008年10月7日火曜日

Bearingpoint Japan Introduced iPhone 3G

Bearingpoint Japan announced that they introduced iPhone 3G into all of their consultants. This adoption is the first time to introduce iPhone 3G for enterprise worklorads in Japanese market.

At this time the reason why they decided iPhone 3G is the following two points.

1. Most of the consultants are always apart from their office, and it was important for the improvements of their mobile work by using tcell phone.

2. At present, in U.S. there are many business applications for iPhone 3G, and it would be supposed taht Japanese companies introduce their business purposes with iPhone.

ベリングポイント、iPhone 3Gを全コンサルタントに導入 (SoftBank)

2008年10月4日土曜日

Knowledge model and Innovation - Tokyo University














Peter Drucker had said "Japan would get in trouble for generating new ideas under the global economy when faced to the new age, so to speak "Information Economy". In other words, there would be no ways in the future to lead the art of innovation in a global economy.

Yesterday I participated in the seminar related to "the art of innovation, was held in Tokyo University.














The title of this seminar is "Knowledge model and Innovation". In the beginning, Mr. Komiyama who is president of Tokyo University told the latest trends and his expectations on it. It is true that innovation on society would be important, but it would not be sufficient for people to have utilizations of knowlegde for themselves.

He also described that it would be more and more important to create a positive experience from a customer or societies who could extracted useful knowledge from the enormous informations.














The seminar invited the speaker, Mr. Dave Blakely who is a technical strategy director of IDEO. In case of IDEO innovation, it was important not only to get informations from their knowledge databases but also to make a prototype at the early stage of product developments. Mr. Blakely said it would be also important points , "Who is an expert" and "Corporate Culture" in his speech.

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2008年10月3日金曜日

Nintendo DSi Coming soon

Nintendo held the event, "Nintendo conference 2008 autumn in Japan".
Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata announced Nintendo DSi that would have cameras and replay-music functions. You could see the video and the photos from the following.

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Wiiもソフトを一気に拡充--写真で見る「任天堂カンファレンス秋2008」(CNET Japan)





2008年10月2日木曜日

New Experiences - The 2nd day CEATEC 2008

I reported the 2nd day on CEATEC 2008, Japanese technology conference in Japan.You could see "Omotenash" that means new experiences in English from the following video.

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NTT docomo Mobile


Hitachi Gesture Wooo LCD


Fujitsu Robot


YAMAHA TENORI-ON




Sony EL Display


Nissan's Biomimetic Robot Car

2008年10月1日水曜日

New Experiences from Japan - CEATEC 2008

CEATEC 2008, Japanese technology conference was held in Japan.
You could see the new experiences from the following video.

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CEATEC JAPAN (Nikkei Shinbun)

NTT docomo Mobile


Nissan to Demonstrate Crash Avoidance Robot


CEATEC 2008: Ejercicio en la casa del futuro


Panasonic 3D Plasma Theater






Murata Manufacturing - MURATA GIRL : DigInfo


Robotic Agent made by NISSAN


Hitachi 35mm-thick HD LCD TV


Life Wall Demo