Community "U2plus" which supports a melancholiac

Japan has melancholiacs more than 1 million people. The number of them is increasing, but prejudice and discrimination against depression are left in Japan firmly. However, this Web community may change the Japanese present conditions.

http://u2plus.jp/

U2plus was launched by Japanese Yasuhiro Toudou. According to his blog, once, he suffered from depression and thought about suicide. However, he made U2plus from this experience. He met the engineer and designer who have experience of depression like him in Twitter and a blog and started this project.

This is a slide of U2plus announced in 2012 Social Media Week Tokyo.

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View more presentations from Yasuhiro Toudou

Archive of Ustream is here 
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U2plus has the program which used cognitive-behavioral therapy as the base, and a function which the users of depression support mutually.  Users share the positive occurrence in a daily life mutually. And the feedback is carried out only through a buttons. Because it is not a free text, the negative chain does not occur. In addition, U2plus does not have the friend function either. Because friend application and the block produce the stress with pleasure. Therefore the timeline of U2plus resembles Tumblr than Twitter.

U2plus opens in January and has the registration of 1,000 users and 30 counselors now. Surprisingly they opened the English version of U2plus. This is rare in the Japanese community where weak in other languages.

http://u2plus.com/

This is Japan: Sex sleeve with the USB cable is extreme popularity in Japan

Now, Japan is the No.1 in the world by the invention about virtual sex. The gadget which could have sex with a virtual girl was commercialized at last. Besides, it is high-performance and low-cost.

  USBオナホールと3Dカスタム少女

"USB ona - hole" 7709 yen in Amazon Japan (about 96USD). This links game for PC "3D custom girl". Users can put various parts together, and customise one's favorite beautiful girl. If there is "USB ona - hole", users can virtual sex with this beautiful girl. It can detect size and speed and can let it link the motion of the virtual girl. The CG of the virtual girl plays a motion and a voice with it. This is not "USB ona - hole", but similar.



Now, it is too popular and out of stock.  The hacker who was able to get it also fortunately did interesting invention using it. It is "masturbation measurement software".

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Users can measure the time of masturbation, number of times of insertion and average number of hours. Furthermore, they contribute those data to Twitter and can share it with a friend. This became the topic among Japanese geeks very much. This should be called "USB ona - hole hack". If "USB ona - hole" and "3D custom girl" are exported to overseas, the movement that is more splendid than Kinect hack will arise.

In addition, the virtual deep kiss system is studied in Japan.

Let's compete for augmented reality big boobs

Ningen is very individual and funny Japanese startup. (Ningen means a human being in Japanese) They made many interesting products, web service, and artworks until now. There is "augmented rearity big boobs" in them. Augmented rearity big boobs is Kinect hack works. Anyone who play this can get big boobs.



They hold a contest "Kinect big boobs WORLD CUP 2012" more.

There are enjoy section and customize section in Kinect big boobs WORLD CUP 2012. videos enjoying augmented reality big boobs is examined in Enjoy section. And arrangement of the cord of augmented reality big boobs are examined in Customize sectionm.

Zynga's Japanese taste iOS game application

Zynga releases a lot of mobile game recently. They released new game application for iOS today.

This is "MONTOPIA". Frankly speaking, it is a game such as Pokemon.

Users can gather monsters, venturing various places. The kinds of monsters are more than 200.

Zynga Japan supervised the design of this. Now, it is given precedence only in Japan, but will be given global later.

A Japanese prominent old gamer says "I cancel all work if Resident Evil6 is released"

YuZo Kayama of the Japanese musician / actor is 75 years old, but he is a heavy gamer. He loves the Capcom's game "Resident Evil" series very much. He appeared in a program of local radio FM Okayama and said.

"I cancel all work if Resident Evil6 is released. Movies, Novels and games are entertainment. However, Games can make a story with myself. Dead or alive of a character are according to myself. Games has infinite possibilities. I can't play games in the interval of work. I have to secure time firmly and have to play a game from the front."

By the way, he is a friend with another Japanese old gamer Shiro Suzuki.

See also:
Awesome 72 years old gamer
Japanese 72years old gamer said, "Game has the effect to reduce crime"

They talked about Resident Evil series in the end of last month.
http://japan.gamespot.com/extra/biohazard_201201/35013022/

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