Dentsu – ASOBERU-T – New T-shirt technology – Hold up a smartphone over the T-shirt, then characters and other designs will pop up on the screen from nowhere

Dentsu - ASOBERU-T - New T-shirt technology - Hold up a smartphone over the T-shirt, then characters and other designs will pop up on the screen from nowhere

Dentsu, a Japanese advertising company, announced that they have developed a new T-shirt technology called “ASOBERU-T”.

They developed the unique and fun T-shirt technology that gives you 3 different ways to enjoy the T-shirt: Play, Shot and Share.

To start playing with the T-shirt, you need to install the dedicated free application on your smartphone.

Play:
Hold your smartphone over the T-shirt, then you will see characters and other designs pop-up on the screen from nowhere. You can play with those characters and designs.

Shot:
Pose with the characters and take some good photos with them.

Share:
Post those photos on the SNS sites.

As part of its first stage, BEAMS, which is a popular Japanese clothing brand, is going to release 5 kinds of “ASOBERU-T” T-shirts in collaboration with Gindama (anime) and The Wonderful! design works (design company) on July 6.

Japanese robots Kirobo and Mirata set for launch, literally

Japanese robots Kirobo and Mirata set to be launched, literally

Don’t get excited about buying the new robots created by Japanese company Dentsu in conjunction with Toyota and the University of Tokyo — they won’t be hitting stores anytime soon. However, do get excited that one of them, namely the white-helmeted droid Kirobo (shown above, left), will actually be launched into orbit as part of a Japan Space Agency mission to the ISS on August 4th. In fact, he and his backup Mirata were endowed with voice recognition, natural language processing, speed synthesis, realistic body language and facial recognition for that very reason. They’ll be participating in the “world’s first conversational experiment” between people and robots in space, while also mixing it up with kids on earth with educational activities. Hopefully, the astronauts won’t give Kirobo any HAL 9000-like control of the station, though the cute ‘bots seem malice-free, saying they “wanted to create a future where humans and robots live together and get along.” Check it out for yourself in the video after the break.

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