Sony announced this week that they will begin shipping their 11 inch OLED TV to Europe in 2009. This unique device went on sale in Japan last December, and made its American debut early this year, but it is only now gaining acceptance for an as-yet untapped European market. For those who [...]
Remember the cool looking robotic lift that Sigourney Weaver used to battle the Alien? It was such a futuristic device that we all knew something like that could never exist. well, Japan’s CYBERDYNE, Inc has done one better. Instead of a huge and cumbersome machine you strap yourself into, the bio-suit looks more like the uniform of [...]
With 40% of the population expected to be elderly, by 2055, Japan is working on a solution that is science fiction come to reality. The idea is to develop robots that are able to help a live-alone elderly person with their daily routines, ranging from talking notepads and calendars to able to help move [...]
On my recent Visit to Japan I once again fell in love with the japanese mini car. The concept of having a small engine car that is cheap and fuel efficient (660cc engines at about 45miles a gallon, costs brand new about 10,000$ and used for about 2000$) be common place on the roads makes [...]
Those crazy Japanese are up to it again with their innovation and technology. What are they up to this time? Something straight out of a scifi novel!!! “Japanese researchers have implanted a small camera inside a mouse’s brain to see how memory is formed, in an experiment they hope to some day apply to humans [...]
The next generation of TV’s have finally arrived, but only in Japan. Sony has been working televisions that use the OLED technology which stands for, “organic light-emitting diode.” With this technology Sony has been able to produce televisions which are thinner and have a more vivid picture than existing LCD, Plasma and DLP. The Sony [...]