tech
Leave your bag at home and fill up the pockets of this denim hoodie with all your tech instead.
A hobbyist has inadvertently given life to an Eldritch horror posing as a Thomas the Tank Engine toy by giving it glowing eyes and the ability to scale walls and ceilings.
The Chinese government is going all in on electric cars. After all, China is currently plagued with some of the worst air pollution in the world.
It’s not unusual for stars to perform in Japanese commercials, but what they’re asked to do can sometimes lead to head-scratching.
Foolishly allowed a sticky-fingered child to hold your phone? Have a crippling fear of germs and wish you could disinfect everything? Now there’s a smartphone you can wash with soap and water!
We’re sure Nintendo is busy creating something new and exciting to release into the world, but we kind of wish this is what they were working on…
Remember the awesome, super-expensive R2-D2™ Moving Refrigerator we reported on last month? Well, we recently went to see an actual model on display!
The live-action Attack on Titan movies may have been a bit of a disappointment, but we’ll always have the glorious anime. And now the animated protagonists from the acclaimed series are bringing their world into ours and guiding us around it with an amazing new tablet and car navigation system.
Filled with special extras including the opportunity to “rank up” according to distances travelled, a choice between “return to the wall” or “Survey Corps outer expedition” route views, and an appearance from a Titan when we pass through convenience store checkpoints, it’s bound to make trips to the grocery store much more exciting!
Thanks to the world of smartphones, we’re now able to connect to ourselves on a physical level in a way we never could before. Fitness apps and wearable devices like the Fitbit wristband allow us to monitor everything from the number of steps we take to our walking speed and heart rate.
While activity trackers usually take physical data from our wrists, Japanese eyewear brand JINS is taking a very different approach by monitoring not only our physical but also our mental state, with the new JINS MEME glasses. Using a number of built-in sensors to gather data from the eyes and body, now you can monitor everything from posture to alertness levels and find out how your body and mind “age” alters throughout the day.
Evangelion fans, rejoice! If you were wondering what more you could possibly add to you collection of EVA goods, you won’t have to wait much longer for the next must-have item – the Evangelion smartphone, which is scheduled to go on sale around the end of this year.
As if that weren’t exciting enough, you can also become an official “supporter” which will get you the latest, up-to-date information, plus a special gift.
Listen up, people–in just a couple of years, we’ll seeing the closest thing possible to a realization of Transformers in real life.
Japanese firms Brave Robotics and Asratec, along with the support of toy manufacturer Takara Tomy, have teamed up with the joint goal of creating a 3.5-meter-tall (11.5 feet) humanoid robot that is capable of transforming itself into a drivable car. While the project, which is titled J-deite Ride, won’t come to fruition until sometime in 2017, the collaborative team has already produced a similar transformable robot on a smaller scale–and the video of its transformation sequence is pretty awesome.
Oculus, Sony, Valve, and even Samsung have been heralding virtual reality as the future of gaming and entertainment for what feels like an age now. The few glimpses we’ve seen of the fledgling technology have both impressed and intrigued us, but titles that resemble the kind of games we can expect to play when these companies finally launch their respective headsets are still few and far between.
The unusually named Headmaster, however, is a good example of what we can probably expect to play as the technology finds its feet.
In the future, Samsung wants your mirror to act as a virtual fitting room.
At an event in Hong Kong, the company unveiled a new type of mirror that also functions as a screen with cameras inside.
The mirror would likely be aimed at retail stores, enabling shoppers to potentially view information about the product they’re trying on or digitally try on items before they purchase them.
Nintendo may be ditching its historic proprietary operating systems (OS) and instead using Android to power its next games console, according to Japanese newspaper Nikkei, Kotaku reported.
If true, this could be a big win for Google, while helping to boost Nintendo’s flagging sales.
MOST POPULAR
Now
Japanese luxury hotel’s new month-long stay plan lets you live Yokohama life with amazing twist
Heavyweight Japanese convenience store ramen festival! Three bowls of guilty pork pleasure
Tokyo Olympics losing volunteers even after president’s resignation for sexist remarks
Japanese drum game Taiko no Tatsujin celebrates 20 years with TikTok version, tournament, and more
New Pokémon Wedding Plan in Japan includes Pikachu couples jewellery
Final Fantasy XVI will draw on “anguish you can only understand once you become an adult”
Pokémon brings out adorable baby line for a new generation of Pokémon Masters
Japanese mochi ice cream becomes latest TikTok trend
Sakura surprise! The coolest thing about this cherry blossom photo actually isn’t the flowers
Netflix offering full Tokyo anime school scholarships with living expense support, open to foreigners
Weekly
Breast material shortage causing delay for explosively popular US$479 busty anime girl mousepad
How much money do you need for a studio apartment in downtown Tokyo?
If you die from the COVID-19 vaccine in Japan, the government will give your family over 44M yen
Tokyo police stopped us for random questioning, so we asked them to recommend a good restaurant
Japanese Twitter realizes that talking about the NES now is the same as old men talking about WW2
Tokyo luxury hotel offers month-long stays with free breakfasts, might be cheaper than apartment- Heavyweight Japanese convenience store ramen festival! Three bowls of guilty pork pleasure
Burger King Japan’s Strong Magma Super One Pound Beef Burger has us quaking in our boots- Final Fantasy XVI will draw on “anguish you can only understand once you become an adult”
How to turn your leftover instant ramen broth into delicious chawanmushi Japanese egg custard
Monthly
“Miraculous” cloud over Mt Fuji stuns the Internet- Netflix offering full Tokyo anime school scholarships with living expense support, open to foreigners
- How to turn your leftover instant ramen broth into delicious chawanmushi Japanese egg custard
- Breast material shortage causing delay for explosively popular US$479 busty anime girl mousepad
Nier Automata’s creator is confused by Square Enix’s new fan art guidelines
New Godzilla has super-thick thighs thanks to Studio Ghibli anime veteran
We mixed 43 different kinds of Japanese curry together to make The King of Curries
Brown-haired girl sues Japanese school for telling her to dye hair black, court makes decision
Common ramen ingredient found highly effective at clearing up radioactive contamination
We try 7-Eleven’s newly recreated Pork Ramen and are blown away by its level of perfection
Yearly
Nintendo puts out important notice for casual gamers who’ve bought a Switch during the pandemic
Jason calls off Friday the 13th activities due to coronavirus
Studio Ghibli releases 400 images from eight movies free to download online
A Pokémon glitch no one discovered in 18 years has been found…by a pet fish in Japan?!?【Videos】
Customers race to Uniqlo for new summer face masks, but are they really worth the hype?
Parasite movie releases free official wallpapers to download as backgrounds for video calls
Japanese students hold graduation ceremony in Minecraft amid school cancellation
Man sheds half his body weight, looks like a handsome model in just one year
Akihabara saying goodbye to landmark as giant Sega arcade announces it’s closing for good
Man loses 200 times at crane game, calls police to investigate, staff member loses 300 times too
RECOMMENDED STORIES
Final Fantasy XVI will draw on “anguish you can only understand once you become an adult”
Pokémon brings out adorable baby line for a new generation of Pokémon Masters
Japanese mochi ice cream becomes latest TikTok trend
Sakura surprise! The coolest thing about this cherry blossom photo actually isn’t the flowers
Netflix offering full Tokyo anime school scholarships with living expense support, open to foreigners
How much money do you need for a studio apartment in downtown Tokyo?
Disney princesses return for round two as playful pin-up girls【Art】
Coca-Cola to release their healthiest cola ever in Japan this March
Hyper-detailed anime girl masks are here to solve, possibly create your fashion problems【Photos】
Satolgo 12: “The Sardine Gambit”
Man sheds half his body weight, looks like a handsome model in just one year
Cast of this summer’s live-action Naruto stage play looks more awesome than ever in new photos
Clipping your nails at night may cause death, according to a Japanese superstition
-
