Japan was closed to the West for many years before the middle of the nineteenth century, and it remains a uniquely individual culture. Travelers for both business and pleasure should learn a few points of protocol before visiting Japan, as this will add greatly to the success of a trip.
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It’s rare that How Would You Change takes a look at headphones, but we think this pair deserves the scrutiny. Parrot Zik by Starck is a $400 pair of Bluetooth cans with NFC, capacitive touch panels, active noise cancellation, head detection and a jawbone sensor for speech. Two of our reviewers put the headset through its paces and found that, sadly, a short battery life, wonky Bluetooth performance and so-so sound quality meant the set wasn’t worth the $400 asking price. But what about you? Did you splash out the big bucks on these, and if so, how have you found ’em?
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When it comes to starting fires for your camping trip or your summer outdoor entertaining it isn’t always so easy to get that traditional wood fire going. Once you get it going it can take some work poking and prodding to keep it going and then carefully adding new wood as the fire burns down. FIREase has created the IncinerGrate to make fire starting and maintaining as simple as toasting marshmallows.
There’s not much that’s lonelier than having a bowlful of tasty noodles and no one to share them with. The Anti-Loneliness Ramen Bowl allows you to slurp away while also staying in contact with your nearest and dearest.
Want to get in on a new game, not yet released? "Gundog" is currently offering that chance with a unique take on the third-person shooter.
Ron Reagan and Erick Erickson debate judicial matters after the DOMA and VRA decisions. But there’s a larger subtext — is Obama’s center-left country and Roberts’s hard-right Court moving toward a collision? Then, Obama tries to cool off the planet and the frenzy over Snowden.
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“Dexter” began its final season Sunday night as the TV landscape found itself at an anti-hero crossroads. Two weeks after James Gandolfini’s death and at the start of a summer that will see the series finales of “Dexter” and “Breaking Bad,” it feels like a TV era is coming to and.
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Tt eSPORTS is set to drop their latest laser gaming mouse, the VOLOS. Made specifically for MOBA/MMORPG gamers, the mouse features fourteen programmable buttons, an accurate and reliable Avago laser sensor of 8200dpi resolution, LEDs with up to 16.8 million customizable colors and a USB 2.0 connector. The VOLOS will go on sale form mid-July for $69.99. [Product Page]
Storm System Technology has dropped another high-end gaming PC namely the Storm Power Gamer Pro Killer NIC SLI LTD. Priced at 257,880 Yen (about $2,615), the system is packed with a 3.50GHz Intel Core i7-4770K processor, an Intel Z87 Express Chipset, 2x GeForce GTX 770 2GB graphics card, an 8GB DDR3 RAM, a 256GB SSD (Plextor M5 Pro), a DVD Super Multi Drive, a 1600W 80PLUS GOLD power supply and runs on either Windows 7 or 8 OS. [Product Page]
ASK Inc. Japan has just released Leadtek’s latest graphics card ‘GeForce GTX 780′. Codenamed WFGTX780-3G, the card sports 2304 CUDA Cores, a 384-bit memory interface, a core clock of 863MHz (900MHz Boost Clock) and a 3GB of GDDR5 memory set @ 6008MHz, and features dual-link DVI-I, dual-link DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. The WFGTX780-3G is available now for 89,800 Yen (about $910). [Product Page]
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