Cats of Japan: Now's a good time to renounce your Japanese citizenship and run as far away as your little kitty legs will take you. That is, unless, you enjoy getting dressed up in ridiculous kitty costumes and laughed at on international TV. Then, stick around. They'll find you. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment » The Best Links: Japanese Cat Show Cat Vs. Sellotape Japanese Cat Show 2 (with human!) Japanese Woman Torturing a Cat By Humiliation CatFeed...
Filed under: Blu-ray, DVRs, Recorders, Mitsubishi With all the talk of Blu-ray stalling out, it's easy to see why Blu-ray DVRs haven't been something that manufacturers have even tried to sell the American public. Over in Japan, things are a little different -- just take Mitsubishi's DVR-BF2000 Blu-ray DVR model, for example. The hefty sum of ¥178,000 ($1900 US) nets you a DVR with a 500GB hard disk, dual tuners and a disc burner that can write out on BD-R/RE media and DVD-R/RW for when you don't need such capacious archiving. The unit also has some automatic editing features for...
(Image from Roses Fabien Ducher) We all love flowers and here in Japan, you can find a local hanaya-san on every corner. People here love flowers. Problem is, it is getting difficult to know if the cut flowers available are locally grown. The cut flower market is considered to be worth US$7-8 billion in terms of retail value. 90 per cent are traditional varieties such as chrysanthemums, carnations, roses, orchids, and lilies. The chrysanthemum is one of Japan’s national flowers, but where was it grown, or what is the total environmental impa......
A Japanese brewery has just released a beer made from barley grown by cosmonauts onboard the International Space Station. Does this mean that the International Space Station has finally proven to have a purpose after all? The beer - appropriately called "Space Barley" - has been produced by Sapporo Breweries, who may be missing the unique selling point, if this quote from Strategy Managing Director Junichi Ichikawa is anything to go by: There's really no beer like it because it uses 100 per cent barley. Our top seller is the Black Label brand, using additional ingredients such as rice. This...
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Peanuts fans have something new to buy. If you bought the Peanuts laptop, plan on buying the Snoopy video game and just can’t get enough of Snoopy and his little bird buddy, you may want to consider this mouse and usb hub. Kokuyo has just unveiled the Snoopy USB hub and Mouse. The four port hub is available in two colors featuring Snoopy and his pal Woodstock having fun. The 800 dpi optical mouse comes in blue with Snoopy sleeping. The Japan only product will hit stores December 22 just in time for Christmas. I’m not a big Snoopy fan,...
If you're traveling overseas to Japan, the UK, Brazil or Australia and try to access Gizmodo, you'll get the local version to that country. Here's how to get the regular US site. The first method is to manually visit us.gizmodo.com, which will show you the US site no matter where you are. The second is to go to us.gizmodo.com and log into your commenter account. If you don't already have one, the instructions on how to sign up are down at the bottom of each post page, next to where you comment. As long as you're logged into the site...
First NEC’s model, then Onkyo’s and now it’s time for Epson to release a Hello Kitty laptop [JP]. The devices are only available in Japan, where they will be exclusively sold online starting December 10. The Hello Kitty notebook is based on Epson’s Endeavor NJ2150. Buyers can choose between a combo model ($1,200) and a so-called super-multi version ($1,500). Both versions are available in two different designs. The combo model comes with an Intel Celeron 575 CPU (2GHz), 1GB memory, a 80GB HDD, a 15.4-inch TFT WXGA screen (1280×800 resolution), a DVD drive, WiFi, Windows Vista and, of course,...
With nearly every company (seriously, basically all of them) rolling out a tiny projector, it's getting pretty hard to stand out from the crowd -- and Adtec's two new MP15A Series projectors don't look like they're going to push the envelope in any way. Specwise, they're going to be nearly identical to the rest of the bunch, with 15 ANSI lumens, a 200:1 contrast ratio, and VGA 640 x 480 resolution, and they'll boast an LED lamp with about a 20,000 hour life. The two models -- the 15AW is white, 15AB is black -- will be available in...
