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Cool Japanese LED watch from Tokyo Flash

JoeDigital — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:02:55 +0000

Here is another cool Japanese LED watch by Tokyo Flash called the Kisai Denshoku, We just love these watches (not available in Canada retail but can be purchased on Amazon.com in the states), this new watch has a complete LED face. Tokyo flash describes it as “Orange acrylic bars emerge through the face like neon [...]

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Cool Japanese LED watch from Tokyo Flash

Tokyo flash new cool lighting

JoeDigital — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:57:29 +0000

Tokyo flash known world wide for their unique and cool LED watches has now expanded their store to include products such as Gadgets, Lighting, phone accessories, Bags, Jewlery and other fashion goods. Working on the concept of bath lighting they have created this neet looking Dreams Drop Bath Light Sign up to our RSS feed [...]

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Tokyo flash new cool lighting

The Most Expensive Toy From Japan, Mazinger Z(マジンガーZ)

Ciel501 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:26:44 +0000

Japanese Old Robot, ‘Mazinger Z’ will be coming as the most expensive toy in Japan this autumn. Japanese Yomiuri Shinbun(journal) said “Mazinger Z will be reveiled this autumn for about $25,000.” This costly robot toy was shown up in Tokyo last month and named as ‘URBAN MATERIAL CHOGOKIN マジンガーZ’. The toy has 60cm high and [...]

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The Most Expensive Toy From Japan, Mazinger Z(マジンガーZ)

Takara Tomy’s Robo-Q

JoeDigital — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:07:00 +0000

Take a look at this and you’ll definitely know what they mean when they say “mini” technology. At 29.4 x 24.4 x 34.5mm (yes, check the specs – it’s “mm”!), these little robots made by Takara Tomy pack quite a lot of technology. The mini robots are probably one of, if not the smallest consumer [...]

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Takara Tomy’s Robo-Q

Meet “Cyber Alice”

JoeDigital — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:17:43 +0000

Here’s a really cute one from the creative minds behind Japanese technology: the “Cyber Figure Alice”. This is actually a nice digital toy where with the use of some software, some special gadgets and a regular webcam, you can literally interact with a little digital maid. The image of Alice comes out from either a [...]

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Meet “Cyber Alice”

Adorable USB Owl

JoeDigital — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:38:00 +0000

Well here’s a cute little PC device from our Japanese friends – a USB owl. What does it do, you ask? No, it doesn’t save files or record sounds for you. These things don’t even have a clock on them. It’s just a mechanical owl that sits right next to your laptop or PC and [...]

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Adorable USB Owl

The Bandai Aqua Dance Toy

JoeDigital — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:00:24 +0000

This little toy actually came out into the Japanese markets last year, 2008. But the product has been so popular that it will be flying to the US markets pretty soon. Bandai’s creation, the Aqua Dance Toy, is a fun little fountain that uses nano technology in order to produce its effects. As to how [...]

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The Bandai Aqua Dance Toy

R2-D2: the Projector

JoeDigital — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:57:21 +0000

Remember R2-D2 from the classic Star Wars series? That little beeping robot had the ability to project holographic images and move around managing stuff. Just last year, Nikko, a Japanese manufacturer that produced the Gig-Nikko radio models back in the day, created R2-D2 – a device that replicates the robot in the series in [...]

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R2-D2: the Projector

Japanese Ideas: Momji Dolls

JoeDigital — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:52:13 +0000

It looks like that Sanrio is going to get a run for their money as a new breed of cute little Japanese wooden gadgets is actually outselling Hello Kitty and Pukka. These little carved wooden dolls that look like the “Kokeshi” (traditional wooden dolls) are called Momji dolls, and they were presented to the international [...]

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Japanese Ideas: Momji Dolls

Yuki-taro automatic japanese robot snow plow

JoeDigital — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:30:44 +0000

This is the coolest snow plow I have seen to date. This Pikachu (from Pokemon for the people that don’t know) looking robot that measures 160 x 95 x 75 cm (63 x 37 x 30 in.) and weighs 400 kg (880 lbs). Armed with GPS and a pair of video cameras embedded in its [...]

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Yuki-taro automatic japanese robot snow plow