Scientists Debut Swine Flu Robot in Japan [Vote Average: 4, Total Votes: 1, Hits: 70]
This robot was one of many disease-related devices unveiled at Security & Safety Trade Expo (RISCON) in Tokyo...
Tokyo | Japan
Updated On: 11/17/2009
Tags: Scientists Debut Swine Flu Robot, Swine Flu Robot In Japan, Human-sized Robot, Symptoms Of Swine Flu, Security And Safety Trade Expo, Tokyo, Japan, Sweating, Convulsing And Moaning, Human Bodily Functions
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Swine Flu Prompts ‘World Hand-Washing Day’ in Japan [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 5, Hits: 129]
The systemic fear of H1N1, known more colloquially as “swine flu,” has seized the world by the haunches...
Tokyo | Japan
Updated On: 11/7/2009
Tags: Hand Washing Swine Flu Prompts, World Hand Washing Day, World Hand Washing Day In Japan, H1n1 Virus, Swine Flu, United Nations, Tokyo, Japan, Hand Washing Instructions, World Health Organization, Ayako Uragami Of Japan Committe For Unicef, Universal Hand-washing Dance, Hidemi Kimura, Principal Of Takanawa Kindergarten, Swine Flu In Tokyo, Healthy Life
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Kirameki Pure Gold Keyboard: Luxury or Decadence? [Vote Average: 1, Total Votes: 15, Hits: 153]
If King Midas were (or ever had been) among the living, no doubt he would have yearned to own the Kirameki Pure Gold Keyboard to cherish among his many other gilded possessions...
Tokyo | Japan
Updated On: 11/6/2009
Tags: Kirameki Pure Gold Keyboard, King Midas, Gold Keyboard, Pure Gold Leaf, Special Keyboard, Japan Wazakura Studios, Market Fluctuations Of Gold, Gold-leaf Tradition In Japan, Usb Ports, Connector Cable, Diamond-studded Cell Phone, Less Fortunate Computer Geeks, Japan
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Electric unicycle unveiled [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 3, Hits: 216]
An electric unicycle has been unveiled by Honda which says will revolutionise the way we get around...
Tokyo | Japan
Updated On: 10/10/2009
Tags: Electric Unicycle Unveiled, Electric Unicycle, Honda, Technology, Personal Mobility Device, Company Famous Asimo Humanoid Robot, Internal Balance Control, Forwards, Backwards, Brisk Walking Pace, Tokyo, Honda President Takanobu Ito, Human Transportation, Chief Engineer Yasuhisa Arai
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Giant Robotic Teddy Bears: Japan’s New Nurses? [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 17, Hits: 414]
What’s the best way for a country with one of the most rapidly-growing elderly populations to deal with staffing shortages in the medical industry? Well...
Tokyo | Japan
Updated On: 9/11/2009
Tags: Riba 2, Japans New Nurses, Giant Robotic Teddy Bears, Medical industry, Giant robotic nurse, Japanese health care, Riken research center, Robot, Interactive Body Assistance, Japanese hospitals, Patients
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Robots Flip Pancakes, Serve Sushi [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 69, Hits: 523]
Humanoid robots taking care of the drudgery of chores have been a dream of overworked humans since the dawn of this technological age.
Tokyo | Japan
Updated On: 8/17/2009
Tags: Japan Cooking Robot, Robots Flip Pancakes, Technological age, Japanese restaurants, Prototypes of pancake-flipping robots, Sushi-serving machines, International Food Machinery and Technology Expo, Tokyo, Tomio Sugiura, President of makers, Vegetable-chopping prototype Sugiura Kikai Sekkei, Japan robot industry, Multi-billion dollar industry, Narito Hosomi, President of company, Toyo Riki, Masanori Hirano of robot lab
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New gadget translates dog barks [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 74, Hits: 793]
Japanese inventors have come up with a device they claim can detect how a dog is feeling from its bark.
Tokyo | Japan
Updated On: 7/22/2009
Tags: Japanese inventors, Bowlingual Voice, Japanese toymaker Takara Tomy, Analyses a dogs bark, Translates findings into human words, Joy and frustration, Japan, Technologically advanced version, Consists of a microphone, Dogs neck, Operating device, Synthesizer audibly informs, Wireless hand-held unit, Tokyo Toy Fair
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New robot displays human emotions [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 23, Hits: 667]
A robot which can express seven different human emotions has been unveiled in Japan.
Tokyo | Japan
Updated On: 6/25/2009
Tags: Robot, Seven different human emotions, Unveiled in Japan, Emotional Humanoid Robot, Named Kobian, Surprise, Sadness and dislike, Motors in its face, Move its lips, Eyelids and eyebrows, Various positions, Scientists at Waseda University in Japan, Hangs its head, Opens it mouth and eyes wide, Hand up to its face, Researchers, Waseda's Graduate School of Advanced Science, Engineering in Tokyo, Patients
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The Pekoppa Toy: Buffer Against Loneliness [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 40, Hits: 641]
Pekoppa Toy is a plant that seems to have a mind all its own.
Tokyo | Japan
Updated On: 6/22/2009
Tags: Sega Toys Company Limited, Creation of weird Pekoppa Toy, Little Shop of Horrors fame, Sound of human voice, Plant, Leaves may flutter, Choice or design, Psychological buffer for interaction, Children, Different version, Flower thing called Hanappa, World, Attempts to communicate, Good listener, Weird Pekoppa Toy
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Coke Releases Green Tea Flavored Cola [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 39, Hits: 592]
Coca-Cola has been through many different iterations, including Classic...
Tokyo | Japan
Updated On: 6/5/2009
Tags: Japan, Green Tea, Healthy Antioxidants, Catechins, Health Products, Beauty Products, Coca Cola Japan, Japanese Cola Market, Pepsi, Pepsi Shiso, Tea, Coffee, Fruit Juice
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