Widgx » Japanorama http://www.widgx.com The best Tech Blog on the net. Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:30:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Mitsubishi i (eye) car http://www.widgx.com/2006/05/mitsubishi-i-eye-car/ http://www.widgx.com/2006/05/mitsubishi-i-eye-car/#comments Wed, 17 May 2006 14:42:22 +0000 K Saleh http://www.widgx.com/?p=645
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It’s odd to see this, especially since Mitsubishi’s popularity in Japan is quite low at the moment (think of exploding engines for no apparant reason). However this is indeed a family car that I’d be proud of owning.
Get in, stick the nano in and off you go, driving and humming. A thousand songs in a thousand miles. (Yes Mistubishi you may quote us on that). The price? $15,000. Is it worth it? Well you obviously aren’t going to buy a car because it has an iPod Nano dock, but I’d say it’s a welcome feature!

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This is a multi-purpose unit, which should come in very handy for many users on various occasions. It functions as an IC recorder, portable music player and memory stick. The ICD-U70 is capable of holding up to 1G of memory, while the ICD-U60 has 512MB of memory capacity

ICD-U70 & ICD-U60, Sony
20,000 yen for ICD-U70, 15,000 yen for ICD-U60
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Remember the Final Fantasy Potion drink i wrote about in January,well its finally gone on sale in Japan,In one store (pictured above) the premium boxes with the special bottles were sold out leaving one six pack.other stores also had plenty of bottles,but no premiums.

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This lovely figurine from the Street Fighter Zero game is available in two colours and is out now in japan.But people in the rest of the world can order theirs from J-List, go on now.

click here for j-list

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Japanese company Konami will issue this summer a curious LCD-based portable game in which the player “raises” virtual characters by giving them a “steady diet” of music.”When the game, called Otoizm, is connected to a MP3 player,various characters appear according to the type of music being played.The game classifies music into 19 types, and the growth and type of character produced changes according to the type of music it listens to.More than 30 kinds of characters can be created.

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The DT1 by Fusion has a display that is a hybrid LCD/LED and is very simple to read. The outer ring indicates hours, the inner ring for minutes.The 30 small dots in the centre are seconds, they fill up to 30 & then drain down to make 60.

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in addition to normal time & date there is a programmable alarm. There is also a range of light up patterns, so each time you press a button you get a different light sequence.
There are also 4 icons which light up to indicate various modes. Date, PM, Alarm on/off & Set alarm.The two models are black & silver. They are the reverse of each other, so for example: everything that is silver one one becomes black on the other.

  • Date, Time & Alarm
  • Shows Seconds
  • All stainless
  • Hybrid LCD/LED
  • Mineral Crystal Glass
  • Water Resistant
  • 1 year Warranty
     
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Mamido’s Burger in Shibuya,Japan makes burgers and fries that are designed to look like regular fast food,but actually are sweets that contain a bun of sponge cake,a patty of chocolate cream, pickles that are kiwi slices,mayo that is whipped cream.The French Fries look just like the real deal but are actually custard cream covered in starch powder.Burgers range from ¥390-550 or $3.90-5.50 and fries being ¥390. 

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Apple previously announced that they would be selling iPods at 7-Eleven convenience stores in Japan,and now this is the first photo of iPods on display in a store,right next to sweets.The display includes the 1 Gb shuffle, 2 Gb and 4 Gb nano, and a 30 Gb video iPod, along with some iTunes Music Store gift cards.

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Rumors are that the first playable Sony Playstation 3 will be presented at next week?s Taipei Game Show.

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This is the Ore-Commander hand mounted gaming controller.Not much detail is known about it as the site is completely in japanese.but it has a unique fork and spoon attachment,So this really could be the ultimate peripherals for the modern gamer or even a addicted net surfer,eat while you play or work online,i know i want and need one. periborg

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