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In summer, fireworks festivals are held throughout Japan. However, there are many people gathering there, so it is an important issue where to see fireworks. This iOS application Fireworks Festival Simulator will help you consider your viewing location with location information and AR.
With this application, you can search information on fireworks festivals around Japan that will be held in 2019. And it measures the distance and direction from the current location based on the location information, displays the AR fireworks on your smartphone screen. You can use them as a reference to find and consider the best places to see fireworks.
If you unfortunately can't go to the fireworks festival, you can use the AR fireworks to take a fake commemorative photos and share them on Facebook and Twitter.
This is an old application that was released in 2014, but it is updated every year to add a schedule for the year's fireworks festivals. Download is free.
Children dislike teeth brushing . Even adults may find it troublesome. So Kyocera, Lion and Sony have developed children's toothbrushe "Possi" where the musics are played when brushing teeth.
The concept is to change the teeth brushing that children dislike to a pleasant time. It has a Kyocera's small-sized piezoelectric ceramic element that converts an electrical signal into vibration sound in the head. And the main body has a digital drive amplifier, so that when the brush touches the teeth, vibration is transmitted from the head of the toothbrush to the teeth and the music is reproduced. The music plays only while the head touches the teeth, so children can only enjoy it while brushing their teeth. If your children have own favorite music, you can also connect smartphones with this via an audio cable and brush their teeth with favorite music. The brush parts are replaceable, and the set includes three replacement brushes.
There are three types of color variations: pop(Blue and Red), aqua(Blue and White), and pure(White), the size is 40mm x 46mm x 153mm, the weight is about 60g, and it works with two AAA alkaline batteries. They are currently funding development funds at Sony's crowd-funding platform First Flight. You can buy it there for 17,500 yen (tax included).
Instagram has become a place to meet new fashions and styles beyond the simple social networking services. But what if your favorite Instagramers show their nice clothes but don't write where they bought them? If you want to adopt their style, it is hard to find the same clothes on your own. Therefore, Metaps-One has released an application miel that AI searches for similar items from various EC sites and suggest them based on the images of Instaglammers and photos taken by you.
If you like the suggested items, you can buy them right from within the application. Usage is simple. When you find nice coordinates or fashion items in social networking services or magazines, upload these images to the application. Then, AI searches images across various EC sites to find items similar to your favorites.
Machine learning is used for this image search. The core technologies are Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Vector Representations, and the application uses CNN to determine the types of items and delete backgrounds. Also, the application uses Vector Representations to mathematically show the relationship between items that are difficult to explain in language, referring to the axes that are suitable for fashion, such as item colors, patterns, sleeve lengths, and collar types. It is used for machine learning while expressing in space.
Metaps-One says that the strength of this application is an EC function that allows users to search for images and immediately purchase items. Currently, they are recruiting partners from EC sites that provide data feeds of items to applications.
The application download is free(iOS/Android).
Popular Japanese restaurants have free toothpicks on their tabletops as a service, and anyone can take them. However, you may feel uneasy about them in terms of hygiene. Therefore, DAITOKU, who normally develop industrial LED light and security cameras, has applied those technologies to toothpick dispensers.
Tsumayoji-Kenjo, which they have developed, has a sensor and just by holding your hand over it, one toothpick comes out automatically(Sensor detection distance is about 10cm).
In addition, it has an ultraviolet light in the inner toothpick storage part, and always sterilizes and maintains hygiene.
The set has its own toothpicks for refilling, but of course you can also put commercially available toothpicks into it. They developed this for use by restaurants, but the price is 3,780 yen (tax included), so ordinary people can buy it, too. The size is 106mm x 77mm x 92mm and works with four AAA batteries.
Instax is the brand of instant still cameras and instant films marketed by Fujifilm. Digital backlash or something, this is still popular among young people. Fujifilm has released a hybrid instant camera "instax mini LiPlay" compatible with card-sized films, as a new lineup.
It is the smallest and lightest in the series, and it has a direct print function that can print the images stored on the smartphone on film. However, the most distinctive feature is "capture sounds". When you take photos, you can print out messages or other sounds as QR codes with the photos. When listen to the sounds, you can play it by scanning its QR code with a QR code reader of your smartphone. You can record up to 10 seconds.
They have proposed the idea of taking photos of the sea and taking the sound of the waves together. It is perfect for recording summer memories.
It also has features like a camera app, such as checking the images before printing photos, adding filters and design frames.
The size is 82.5mm × 122.9mm × 36.7mm, the weighs about 255g, has a built-in type lithium ion battery, and can print about 100 photos with about 2-3 hours of charge time. There are three color variations, Stone white, elegant black and brushed gold, and the price is an open price. In addition, you need to download the free mobile app instax mini LiPlay to use the Sounds feature and the Direct Print feature.
