Thanko released a totally waterproof MP3 player “Waterproof MP3 Player LITE 4GB”. You can listen to music under water with this product and it’s perfect for using while you surf, swim in the pool, ski, etc.
The earphone jack is not a plug-in type but screw-in type, so it doesn’t allow water to enter the main body. 2 kinds of ear pieces come with the product: regular ones for a regular life and ones for underwater that have 3 small plugs lined on each side.
Price: 7,980 …
Nintendo will add a new version of its prepaid card usable at it’s online software download site, e-shop, for 3DS and Wii U. It’s a prepaid card with extra fun bonus called “Asoberu Omaketsuki Nintendo Prepaid Card” (meaning “with playable bonus” in Japanese). It will be out on April 23.
The extra fun bonus makes the prepaid card literally come alive. Hold your 3DS over the card and watch one of the Super Mario characters pop out of the card (viewable …
New industrial-grade karaoke speaker “CS-X080″ from Pioneer will be out in the middle of May. A high-quality sound network circuit is built-in to produce a clear vocal sound.
To transmit sounds equally across the Karaoke box, tweeters are placed inside of the speaker symmetrically looking outward at a 30 degree angle.
Price: 63,000 yen (a pair of speakers)
Size (per speaker): 455 mm (W) × 268 mm (H) × 258 mm (D)
Weight (per speaker): 8.8kg
Speaker structure: 2 way 3 unit speaker …
Japanese mobile telecommunications provider, Willcom, has just revealed that it’s going to release a new SHARP mobile phone created in collaboration with PANTONE on April 25. It has a slim body (44 × 126 × 12.2mm) and is available in 6 vivid colors.
With its smartphone linking function, you can use “PANTONE WX03SH” as your smart phone’s cordless handset by connecting them wirelessly with Bluetooth. You can operate the smartphone’s incoming and outgoing calls and …
iKA Player: The first Squid (Ika in Japanese) powered eBook from Kodansha Publishing. The iKA stands for Interactive Kodensha Archive, is an eBook player automatic energy generation (bye bye batteries), Natural Ink instead of the usual e-Ink, Can Store millions of books, Amazing natural backlight technology and comes with a unique “tentacle” like strap.
Dominos Pizza in a Can: For 401 Yen here you are Domino’s latest Pizza… in a Can!
AU zzzPhoneBed: The first REAL SIZE …
First released last year, we have been impressed with “Shapes” by Toshiba and for good reason. This is exciting technology. Finally tablets have moved beyond rectangular.
Oblong
Technology that’s come full circle.
Ideal for:
DJs, artists, and custom pizza makers. Or anyone that just doesn’t like to be boxed in.
Rhombus
More than just a convex quadrilateral.
Ideal for:
Politicians and corporate folks. Engineered for people who regularly tuck their shirt in, but actually want to …
COWON JAPAN has introduced a compact and sleek MP3 player that is affordable and easy to use and has a very long battery life: continuous music max. 90 hours / movie play max. 13 hours.
It has a 2.5 inch LCD touchscreen with 3 capacities: 8GB, 16GB and 32GB. Includes cable to play video with XVID SP/ASP, WMV 7/8/9 (Video codec), and with JetEffect 5.0.
You can select from various sound effects (EQ, BBE, Mach3Bass, 3D Surround, MP Enhance, Stereo Enhanc, etc.), 9 Reverb modes and 48 preset …
Panasonic has developed a unique technology that doubles the brightness of color photography, by using micro color splitters instead of conventional color filters in the image sensor.
These two photos were taken using CCDs with the same sensitivity. The one on the right was taken with the color filter system used in nearly all digital cameras. The one on the left was taken with Panasonic’s new micro color-splitting system.
Until now, image sensors have produced color pictures by using …
“Wireless memory card reader/writer A” (R03W002A) was released through AU’s “au +1 collection” today.
You can wirelessly play music, movies, pictures etc., saved in an SD card, accessing it through your iPhone or Android smart phone or tablet, and also you can use it to back up the data saved in your smart devices.
Up to 6 devices are able to connect to the “Wireless memory card reader/writer A” at the same time and it is capable of 8 hours of …
Trinity is now importing into Japan the JAMBOX from Jawbone, from the US.
I think it can find its place in the Japanese market.
It’s a small, cool box with 85 decibel sound output, able to be paired up with 8 Bluetooth devices, and has 1seg ability. It is compatible with a lot of music, video, game-related apps so sound can be greatly enhanced over smart devices and it is a hands free “Conference on the go” allowing great sound quality for calls, Skype, etc., and audibly lets …
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