A Japanese inventor creates a projection mapping-enabled keyboard with letters that fly out into space as you type.
Games & Tech (Page 8)
The first details have emerged about the budget and square-footage for the upcoming Nintendo-themed attraction space in USJ—and it’s much more significant than we anticipated.
Forget politics and religion, the truly dangerous topic is dissing your friend’s favorite anime!
Figurines, game kits, placemats and a specially marked fried chicken bucket are coming to KFC stores this spring.
Further proof that the company’s 16-bit console was one of the best-looking systems ever made.
Equipped with a range of sensors and motion detectors, the Dendama looks set to bring this classic toy into the 21st century.
It used to be all about the classy characters with awesome designs, but now the drunk sister is stealing the show.
Distract yourself from studying with new Minecraft eraser sets featuring blocks and characters from the mega-hit video game.
Luckily, it’s just the rock band rather than an actual Powerman5000, but this could still mean big trouble for the game’s makers.
IBM Japan wants 208 people to be scanned into 3-D avatars and put into a virtual world designed after the one depicted in anime Sword Art Online (and hopefully return).
The electronics giant recently showed off a prototype device that can project an interactive, smartphone-like display onto any surface.
Mitsubishi says it’s coming close to perfecting the kind of floating “hologram” images seen in sci-fi films—and it hopes to introduce the “Aerial Display” technology in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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