Aspiring Anime artist? Read this….
While the Anime industry is definitely a global phenomenon, you may be as surprised to read the following article as I was when I first...
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“Smart” vending machine with gender-sensing abilities??
More proof that the Future is here….gender-sensing vending machines! This contraption is….cool and scary at the same time. According to this article, When a customer...
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Throw away the rice and use a “Dryer Box” for your wet phone
Luckily, I have never been in the position of catapulting into a pool only to come to the horrific realization that my precious cell phone...
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Tired of beds, wanna sleep in a cubby hole? Head to the Akihabara district…
Yep, that’s right. The Akihabara district in Japan is now home to “capsule hotels”, or small cube-shaped sleep pods where users can cramp up and...
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Jaded JRPG fans protest convention, predictability
This is a pretty smart ad campaign. As this article from the Escapist says, an ad campaign in Japan for the upcoming video game Fallout:...
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Japanese graphic designer responsible for 20,000,000,000th Tweet
I’m not sure if this is worthy of a “hey, congratulations!” but apparently a Japanese graphic designer in Tokyo recently posted the twenty BILLIONTH tweet...
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Nintendo DS a bigger hit in Japan than US, but why??
I read this article over at the New York Times website, thought it warranted sharing. Among other issues, the article concerns the Nintendo DS and...
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Final Fantasy XIII a million-seller in the West
In its first week on the shelves in the Western part of the globe (USA and other countries in this hemisphere), Square Enix’s Final Fantasy...
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People really like their cell phone keychains….
This random video was discussed by Japan Probe, and I thought it was interesting enough to post here…I’ve always found it amusing when people have...
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Social Network Sites rule the universe….
So I felt it was appropriate to remind everyone that we’re also on Facebook and Twitter! I know it’s fun to manually click around the...