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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Woman passes driving theory test - at 950th attempt [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 4, Hits: 144]
A Korean woman has finally passed her driving theory test - at the 950th attempt...
Seoul | South Korea
Updated On: 11/10/2009
Tags: Cha Sa-soon, Korean Woman, Driving Theory Test, 950th Attempt, Multiple-choice Exam, Japanese Reality Tv Star, Symbol Of Undaunted Spirit, Greengrocer, Jeonju, Near Seoul, Intensive Coaching, Driving License
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Swine Flu Prompts ‘World Hand-Washing Day’ in Japan [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 5, Hits: 130]
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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Japan Creates World’s Biggest Tug-of-War Rope [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 5, Hits: 162]
Japanese folks from Kumoji, Naha, upheld their annual tradition of creating the mother of all tug-of-war rope when they put together a 656 foot long rope...
Naha | Japan
Updated On: 10/26/2009
Tags: Tug Of War, Japanese Folks From Kumoji, Naha, Mother Of All Tug-of-war Rope, Ryukyu Kingdom Festival Tsunahiki, World Record, Crop Harvesting, Rope-tugging Event, Martial Art Demonstrations, Parades And Folk Dances, Giant Rope
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Japanese Rice Farmers Create Giant Paddy Art [Vote Average: 2, Total Votes: 6, Hits: 254]
The villagers have been creating impressive imagery by planting rice plants of varying colors on 2,500 sq. meters of land...
Aomori | Japan
Updated On: 10/7/2009
Tags: Japanese Rice Farmers Create Giant Paddy Art, Giant Paddy Art Picture, Small Farming Community In Inakadate, Japan, Tourist Attraction, Rice Murals, Planting Rice Plants Of Varying Colors, Traditional Japanese Warrior, Western Icons Like Napoleon, Villagers Brainstormed, Century-old Farming Tradition, Creative Artistry, Rice Plants, Mount Iwaki, Village Of Rice Culture, Woodwork Prints, Computer Technology, Accurate Planning And Design, Paddy Field Murals
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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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‘In oceans, plastics break up to pose new toxic threat’ [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 19, Hits: 294]
A new study indicates that in the oceans, plastic does decompose with surprising speed...
Washington | USA
Updated On: 8/21/2009
Tags: Oceans, Plastics break, New toxic threat, Environmentalists, Plastic as a pollutant, Plastic debris, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Katsuhiko Saido, Chemist at Nihon University, Chiba, Japan, Plastic in ocean, Environmental conditions, Global contamination, Toxic chemicals, Bis phenol A and PS oligomer, Hormones in animals
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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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Saina Nehwal in World Badminton quarter-finals [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 11, Hits: 364]
Teen sensation Saina Nehwal became the first Indian woman to qualify for the World badminton championships...
Hyderabad | India
Updated On: 8/13/2009
Tags: Teen sensation, Saina Nehwal, First Indian woman, World badminton championships, Quarter-finals, Bulgarian Petya Nedelcheva, Chinese Wang Lin, Korean Hwang Hye Youn, Juliane Schenk, Chinese Wang Yihan, Championships, Chinese shuttler, Xie Xingfang, German, Pi Hongyan of France, Men singles, Chetan Anand, Indonesian Sony Dwi Kuncoro, Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia, Tien Minh Nguyen of Vietnam, Peter Gade of Denmark, Olympic clash, Dicky Palyama of Netherlands, Chan Yan Kit of Hong Kong, Beijing Olympics, World
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