9.04.2015

Hand-written doodles digitize by one-touch


Even if tablets spread, we can not stopped scribbling on the paper. Wacom releases smart folio Bamboo Spark which can easily convert memos on the paper into digital in October. The price is 17,800 yen. The structure of this is simple, users set a tablet on the left side, notebook on the right side, start application, push the central button and perform pairing of them. It has a digitizer and acquires the information of the drawing position in cooperation with a smart pen. If users charge it 2.5 hours, it's available to them for about eight hours. Because it can save data for 100 pages, it is available even to the situation that the Internet is not usable.



9.01.2015

Is this Rubik's Snake? No, it's power strip


If you are 40's generations, you may remember good old toy Rubik's Snake to see this. However, this is not a toy. This is convenient power strip of the cool design which Sanwa Supply released this month. This is comprised of four outlets and one USB charge port, and has 2 meters of cable. The most characteristic function is that users can change the angle of each section. Even if the heads of plugs are big, this will not quarrel each other. Even if your desk is small, you effectively utilize an area and can increase outlets. Color variations are brown, red, white, black and the price is 3,500 yen.




via http://www.sanwa.co.jp/product/syohin.asp?code=TAP-B51BK

6.21.2015

Japanese mobile game superstar Nameko goes into Southeast Asia

BeeWorks Games' Nameko Saibai Kit, the popular mobile game series in Japan still maintains popularity. They passed the total 40 million downloading at the end of last month...


The household appliance chain Chung Yuen Electrical in Hong Kong presents original goods to consumers...


And the chocolate snack where toys were attached to is sold in Taiwan.



In these countries, Nameko is more popular than Japan. Furthermore, BeeWorks Games let Nameko go into Southeast Asia. They released Android application of a Thai version and the Indonesian version in the beginning.


ชุดเพาะเห็ด Seasons
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.beeworks.funghiGardeningKitSeasonsThId&hl=th


Nameko Gardening Kit
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.beeworks.funghiGardeningKitKoZh&hl=id
Nameko Gardening Kit Seasons
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.beeworks.funghiGardeningKitSeasonsThId&hl=id

They supported Japanese, Italian, French, English, Chinese, Korean until now, but this is the first time that they support Southeast Asian languages. According to the Social Networking Service, the Southeast Asian countries already have a lot of Nameko fans, and the goods seem to be sold, too(but most of those are illegal copy products). Southeast Asia may become like Hong Kong and Taiwan from now on.

6.20.2015

Largest bank in Japan cooperates with Ingress

The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ(BTMU) which is one of the largest bank in Japan started collaboration with Google's mobile game Ingress. They made all of their branches and ATM "BTMU portal". Their customers can hack portal whenever they use branches and ATM.




In addition, they released new virtual item "MUFG Capsule". This is the first of its kind in Ingress, rare item allows agents to store and even accumulate more items over time.


Japanese Ingress agents are very active and perform various original activity. Companies pay attention to it, and are going to apply it in business. It is not only BTMU to cooperate with Ingress. Convenience store Lawson made all stores portal from last year(By the way, their symbol color is blue). The local government of Iwate prefecture utilizes Ingress for regional vitalization, and achieve big result. You can fully play Ingress if you come to Japan for sightseeing or business.

Ingress special page of BTMU is here.

6.18.2015

Stylish bionic hand of open source


exiii is a startup developing 3D-printed bionic hand of the stylish design and low price. They released the design data and source codes of HACKberry, their latest 3D-printed bionic hand as open source in Github. They demand the participation of cooperators from all over the world to raise the completeness of this. Developers and designers can arrange designs, 3D prints parts, and renew source codes based on their data. When they improve HACKberry than an original, it is necessary to report it to the HACKberry community.