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With the release of the iPhone 3G and the T-Mobile G1 this year, most “dumb” cell phones seem to have been lost in the crowd.  Especially those cell phones with tech that isn’t readily available to Americans.  Casio has just announced one of these cell phones.  The W63CA is part… Continue Reading »

Seems that I am not the only one that reveres Logitech for their well thought out products and supreme ease of use.  The maker of tons ‘o stuff nabbed four Good Design awards from Japan.  The award picks four stand out products from the electronics maker.  This makes a total… Continue Reading »

The Japanese distributor for Asus has found that a virus has been shipped with the company’s new Eee Box PCs.  The virus, called recycled.exe, is found on the D: drive of the new low cost desktop PC, which launched last week.  When opened, it copies itself to the C: drive… Continue Reading »

In efforts to add to their Gorilla lineup of GPSs, Sanyo has added the NV-BD600DT to the mix. Currently, their Gorilla lineup is only available in Japan. One of the main features of this GPS is its screen size, which measures in at a very nice 5.8 inches. Additionally, it… Continue Reading »

Popular Japanese company, Sanyo (which is an average U.S. GPS company), has come out with a new GPS exclusively for the States called the Easy Street NVM-4370. One of the features that stood out to me in the NVM-4370 is its width, which is a lean 0.72 inches. In addition… Continue Reading »

In efforts to expand their GPS’s in Japan, Sony recently intro’d two new models. Both of these GPS units are high end models and come loaded with lots of goodies. The two models, the NV-U3V and the NV-U3 are pretty much identical, except for a few features, which I will… Continue Reading »

She’s not one of the fembots from the Austin Powers movies, but she’s the next best thing.  Her name is EMA, which stands for Eternal Maiden Actualization.  The maker is Sega Toys, and the target demographic is lonely dudes.  That’s right, according to Reuters she’s being marketed in Japan as… Continue Reading »

Napster has just launched its first mobile music video service, Napster Clips in Japan. This new service puts a premium on unlimited access to a high-quality digital video service that would complement Napster’s music subscription service. In partnership with Japan’s NTT Docomo, Napster is offering this service via the mobile… Continue Reading »

This really has never happened to me, but Japanese Honda manufacturers seem to think it happens pretty often. They believe that their built-in GPS units often lead you to the “bad section” of neighborhoods. So, the executives and the people responsible for creating the GPS units of Honda are revamping… Continue Reading »

A prototype for a retinal scanning display that is currently in the works has the potential to change the way we watch movies. Cleverly constructed with a complementary eye-piece and weighing in at a very light 25 grams, Brother Japan’s retinal scanning display scans images and beams them on top… Continue Reading »