It seems that as explained in Manu Gizm�vil, which will come in 2009 with the endless struggle of mobile refers to is who plays the best videos. And, as always, the Japanese are already one step ahead. Already launched a 500MHz processor that allows you to play videos to 1920 x 1080 pixels (Full HD 1080p format or MPEG2 and MPEG4). Yet this technology was not given but it will be launched next year.

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The Japanese know that a toilet can do more than umm dispose of your undesirable bodily excretions. The toilet can calm and soothe your harried nerves and even save your marriage! How, you may ask. Let the experts explain. The Japanese have invented toilets with more accessories than your new iPhone. Their high-tech toilets, which everyone may laugh over but secretly rushes to buy, understands that a toilet that can automatically put the lid down for you would please your wife and is thus, obviously, called the marriage-saver.

The single need not worry because the Japs have the highest consideration for you, too. It is for people who can’t get enough of foot-tapping music that the Japanese created toilets that can play you music, and with such an installation in your house it is no wonder that you are still single (have you never heard of a disco?). Perhaps the most popular Japanese toilet is the one that does your dirty job for you by washing and drying your rear end and other privates and keeps a heated seat for you so that you are comfortable in the cold of the morning. The one product that I can’t understand is a toilet that takes your blood pressure (!).

Via: GeeksAreSexy

The question of finding burial space in Japan has almost drove people to their graves (if they could find space to dig one). Buying plots for graves have become more and more expensive and almost an impossibility for the less fortunate. In a land where ancestor worship is an important part of the culture and the mourning process, the need for a material object as a representation of the link between the living and the dead is a near necessity. The latest solution for this problem is the retrieval of urns holding the ashes of loved ones.

Nichiryoku, a Japanese man, has designed an urn retrieval system which allows family members to view the urn of a loved one at a storage facility. All that is required is an RFID card (for identification). The urn will be stored in an underground facility that is so secure that even the bouts of natural disasters that affect Japan constantly would not harm the last remains of loved ones. This solves the problem of space since and the process is also reported to be quite inexpensive. Perhaps the dead, and the living, can enjoy more peace now.
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Do you love your music phone? Check out the latest concept of musical phone on the block from Japan’s KDDI AU Design Project and you’ll end up wanting to put your hands on it!
This device on display in Tokyo is the most intriguing cell phone of all called the ‘Box to Play. The secret behind such a name lies in the fact that the other wise sleek cell phone packed with the usual cool features, when is put on the music mode it transforms into a box with a graphic equalizer on it’s walls. If that didn’t make you drool, hear this – the Box to Play phone also homes a tiny embedded turntable allowing you to scratch the music playing on the phone. Sounds really interesting….must say – it’s indeed talking future or a bright future!
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Sony announced they would leave their A300, an entry model (we talked to you last January here), for July 17.Our new digital SLR is equipped with a 10.2-megapixel CCD, a tilting LCD screen of 2.7 inches, a shutter speed of 30 – 1 / 4000 sec, BIONZ processor Sony, an anti – dust, Quick AF Live View, image stabilizer Super SteadyShot which offers great stability (2.5 to 3.5 steps).

It also offers a sensitivity up to ISO 3200, and is compatible with the Memory Stick Pro Duo, Compact Flash Type I and II.

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How is it that Japan is the land of privileges?� Is it that this is the Land of Never Never?� It seems that East pays attention to children or that the wishes of children are orders… and thus good business.

The fact is that three super powers were united in the face of children. On one side of the stadium architect of the fantasy: Walt Disney.� On the other, Sharp and operator Softbank.� Are the results of size clash of stars?� Nothing less than the motive of the poor Cinderella, which both suffered under the reign of his treacherous stepmother.

The DM002SH, also called Cinderella to dry, is a team with two screens, one of its kind in OLED outer side (0.5 inches) and one internal 2.6-inch WQVGA and quality. As far as their performance, although it is a cellphone that catch public attention-child or adult with Peter Pan syndrome-has a few features, including a digital camera 2 mp, Bluetooth, an internal memory of 50 MB, TV tuner 1 Seg, microSD card slot and the Disney Mobile service.

With this presentation, the third operator in order of importance of Japan and firm steps on ground for the first time to their own phones.� The mobile Cinderella will be released very soon, next June 7 to be exact, and will be available with three finishes: Crystal Clear, Brown and Pink Topaz Diamond.

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Here’s a good news for all those who are already in love with their 37 or 42 inches Sharp Aquos TV. We have brought another reason to love your TV.� �

Sharp has announced to launch the best thing to complement your Aquous. It’s the AN-ACD2 Home Theater! To begin with the home theatre will be introduced in Japanese markets early next month.� �

The main features of the Aquos Audio AN-ACD2 are its 150W (2×25 + 100 from the subwoofer) sound that it produces to supplement your TV.� �

Not jus this, but you can also add a BluRay disc player, while the HDMI is comes along� to add that mark of completion to the look and feel of your home theatre.� � �

The price at which the AN-ACD2 home theatre is announced is somewhere near 95,000 yen in for the customers in
Japan. Via: Akihabara�