Apr 21

Sharp’s Mebius PC-NJ70A packs LCD trackpad for the whiz-bang crowd

Posted in: Japan, japanese, laptop, LCD, netbook, Sharp, Today's Chili, ultraportable

And you thought Apple’s button-less “glass trackpad” was hot stuff. Sharp has just let loose details on its thoroughly Japanese Mebius PC-NJ70A, which sadly packs an exceptionally boring list of internal components but manages to stay interesting with a decidedly unorthodox trackpad. As you can see in the image above, Sharp has actually tossed an 854 x 480 resolution LCD right onto the palm rest, which automatically adjusts brightness based on surrounding light and can likely act as a secondary display for things like adjusting an equalizer with your digits. Beyond that, the netbook is downright drab, sporting just a 10.1-inch display (1,024 x 600), 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB HDD, three USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and a multicard reader. There’s no set price as of yet, but word on the street puts it right around ¥80,000 ($817). Glamor shot after the break.

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Apr 04

Japan sending biped robots to conquer moon by 2020

Posted in: Japan, japanese, robot, Robots, Today's Chili

Remember back in 2006 when we told you about Japan’s goal to colonize the moon with robots? Some dreams don’t seem to die, and the country’s Strategic Headquarters for Space Development said recently that they expect a two-legged droid traversing the satellite’s surface by 2020. Should that prove successful, it’ll be followed later by a joint mission with humans — that is, if the robots don’t find a way to take over before then and deny the spacemen their planetary visas.

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Mar 26

Robot, giant squid have epic battle in Japanese tourism videos

Posted in: Japan, japanese, Robots, Today's Chili

You have to be a special kind of city to think that insane videos of a giant squid / robot attacking and duking it out while destroying your beautiful, historic buildings is a great way to bolster tourism. World, meet Hakodate: their official tourism board has produced an amazing series of videos over the past few months that you really just have to see for yourself. Oh, did we mention that the videos worked? Yeah, we’re totally there. Hit the read link for all three videos; our favorite, Hakodate’s winter video, is after the break.

[Via Pink Tentacle]

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Jan 24

Hello Kitty keyboard boasts keys, cute, and cuddliness

Posted in: japanese, keyboard, Today's Chili

Hello Kitty continues her insane branding-assault on all things tech, and we continue to weep with joy over each and every product. Okay, maybe not. Anyway, the latest eyeball exploder is a 108-keyed Japanese QWERTY keyboard, and it’ll cost you $106.40 to add it to your collection.

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