japan

How Nintendo will go the way of SEGA.

August 12, 2011

Since 2007′s release of the iPhone, Nintendo has adamantly opposed the device in favor of its own mobile consoles, much as they’ve done with every competitor’s hardware in the past. And Nintendo has a legacy to stand on, with the NES and SNES and even the N64. But things kind of break down after that, [...]

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The Japanese will soon have mechs. That farm.

January 14, 2009

It’s no surprise that the Japanese have beat other countries to the first duty-ready exoskeletons. Indeed, while the rest of the world is conducting research on exoskeleton designs for whatever mad-scientist reasons we can imagine, the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology believes they can begin issuing exoskeletons to Japanese farmers in two years. That [...]

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Let Detroit die.

November 12, 2008

As fans of machines, we’re inevitable drawn to vehicular transportation, which is why we were crazy enough to buy a 25-year old DeLorean despite already owning two other vehicles. (We won’t chalk the DeLorean up as anti-green though – we’re reusing old stuff!) We also used to own a 2005 Ford Mustang GT, which was [...]

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Phone + bestiality = good design?

September 5, 2008

Somehow, at the 2008 Good Design Expo, Japanese company Willcom showcased a concept phone to what Forever Geek refers to as “the adoring public”. The phone is not only oversized, but in the shape of a teddy bear, and requires the user to talk into the bear’s crotch as though to give it fellatio. Fortunately, [...]

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Mangs have two heads. Now hard-drives do too.

July 7, 2002

Traditional hard drives, as you may have guessed, have only one head, like women. However, some genius (and I use that term loosely) decided that hard drives should have two heads. This was back in 1985. Now, Japanese company ScarabS, whose web page I cannot read because it is not in English (yet does not [...]

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