Do You Prefer iPhone Or G Phone?

An alternative to iPhone (Apple) is finally in the market! Google introduces its new G1 mobile business phone at $179 with 2 years contract from T-mobile. The model features touch screen, slide-out keyboard and a trackball.  

Please take a look at the G1 phone below;


Its touch screen feature is like iPhone however the G phone has an advantage that is with the keyboard which you can slide in and out if you need. So, you prefer which phone?

The First Hidden Public Toilet In China

The first hidden public toilet in China has now been officially operated. This creative toilet has been developed by Jinan Environmnet Sanitation Science Research Centre. Public can only see the hidden toilet from the sculpture located on top of the toilet. This means that when you insert the coin, roughly about 1 yuan coin, the toilet will automatically emerge from the ground. It will be installed on lawns beside the sidewalk so that everyone can use the hidden toilet. I bet there should be sign board of showing HIDDEN TOILET IS HERE. Otherwise, who could see the HIDDEN TOILET?

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Japan Launches Internet Satellite In Joint Venture

Japan has launched a satellite, which was named as WINDS into orbit and claimed that it could deliver super high-speed Internet service many times faster than cable or DSL. The launching was a joint venture between Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Besides, it will bring possibly the greatest advance in telemedicine to the region.

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Nubrella Is The Hands-Free Umbrella

You can save hands and bags to keep your long and big umbrella when you are out of house or office. Here is the total new idea from umbrella industry. Nubrella - A hands-free umbrella. Appearance is like a transparent Pacman as all elements from all sides are surrounding your head. It is sold at $60 only if you don't mind how you look like when applying this creative umbrella. You may consider it as a new fashion too! Personally, i think this umbrella doens't work practically as you might ask how about the water-proof for your bottom half.

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Kotatsu In Japan

A table covered with a heavy blanket = kotatsu. This is used almost exclusively in Japan. Not as simple as that, there is a heat source beneath the table which is oftenly built into the table itself. Though this the heat could the lower body at comfortable condition even in an unheated room. In the summer, the blanket could be removed so the table can be used as a normal table.

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Tearless Onions A Step Closer

This special "tearless" onion could become the household and industry norm within the next decade if the research progressed well. Dr Eady and collaborators in Japan have been conducting lab tests to dry up the agent in onions which caused the tear. In this research, gene-silencing technology has been used to switch off the enzyme that is responsible for the "crying" compound when an onion is crushed.

The question is whether the tearless onion is still tasteful as its origin after genetically modified? If it loses a bit of the onion taste which it supposes to have, i think that is not an onion anymore. LOL.

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Disabled Chihuahuas Get New Legs

The three Chihuahuas in New York born without front leg are now equipped with rubber wheel bought using donor dollars. They can walk faster without hopping like a kangaroo by strapping aluminium from the rubber wheel chair.

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The World's Thinnest Notebook, Macbook Air!

This is the newly announced world’s thinnest notebook, Macbook Air. The 4mm thin ultra has features of full-size keyboard, 13.3-inch display with built-in iSight webcam and the new larger trackpad which supports multi-touch gestures.

New MacBook Air at the MacWorld Conference in San Francisco

Guided Tour of Macbook Air

Mac VS PC: Funny Rap Music Video

Cool!! I like this clip singing about Mac or PC. Look at them, who is over-dance and who is standing cool??

I am using PC anyway but i can't deny the power of Mac!!

Japan: Astonishing Real Transformer

Incredible creation!! This is a real Transformer and it almost fell down from the table at the end of the clip.

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Robot's Invention In Japan

Everything is robot!! A look back at memorable technology in the Japan's best robots from 2007. The inventions range from humanoid robot to virtual pets. Lots more detail in the clip!!

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Biodegradable Coffin For Eco-Friendly Funeral

Cynthia Beal, the owner of The Natural Burial Company wants to be an Oregon cherry tree after she dies. What does she need to make it happen? 1) A body; 2) A burial site; and 3) "Ecopod", a biodegradable coffin made out of recycled newspaper. Beal will sell a variety of eco-friendly burial products when it opens in January, including the "Ecopod" for natural "burial".

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Japan's Robot Award At Second Year

An aggressive campaign to trumpet Japan's robotics technology has announced a mechanical arm that can grab 120 items a minute from a conveyor belt won Japan's Robot of the Year award!!! Last year, a wheeled vacuum-cleaner robot won the contest.

Transparent body robot, called Eve, one of the finalist for the reward sells for 250,000 yen ($2,200) with complex intertwining rubbery tubing inside for honing doctors' skills for surgery on blood vessels.

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Japan, Honda Unveils New Version ASIMO Robot

The latest version of Honda ASIMO humanoid robot which can be operated more autonomously has been unveiled. New function includes avoiding people, picking up a tray to serve tea or re-charge on its own when battery level is low or when it has worked too hard. Read more

ASIMO activities around the world

Cyber Receptionist In Japan

In Japan, robots are created to ease human life either at home or at work. She is an amazing cyber-receptionist, SAYA worked in one of local University who has defended herself when being scolded by a professor.

"You're so stupid!" , said by professor."Eh?" she
responded, her face wrinkling into a scowl. "I tell you, I am not
stupid!"

SHE HAS TEMPER!!! She is nobody's fool..ur huh..Source

My concern is, how far is the robot generation in Japan in coming 2008??? I guess, should be the lately Robot playing violin (Toyota)

Pac-Man Christmas Tree In Spain!!

This awesome Pac-Man Christmas Tree located at Nuevos Ministerios in Madrid, Spain. It uses thousands of multicolored LEDs to display an animated tribute to the popular classic 80's arcade video game from Japan.
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Pacman Tree in downtown Madrid

In-Flight Wi-Fi In US

Fed up being denied internet access during flight? Next tuesday, JetBlue Airways will start the testing on one of it's airplanes for in-flight Wi-Fi. Over the next few months, American Airlines, Virgin America and Alaska Airlines will start offering Internet access for a fee -- probably $10 per flight.

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New Breed Of Robots Call The Tune

Toyota displays a violin-playing robot in Japan. The actual plan is to produce robots with practical uses in factories, hospitals and people's homes within the next few years.

Good News For Lovelorns

If you are wishing to look for a Mr. or Mrs Right, try this --> Match.com, the world's top Internet Matchmaker which has boasts over 800,000 Japanese singles and eyes many more.

According to Reuters, lovelorn in the Land of the Rising Sun, Japan are increasingly trying New Age intervention for such purpose.

Humanoid Robot Teaches Dentists To Feel People's Pain

Japan's Nippon Dental University Hospital staff member demonstrates the workings of "Simroid", a humanoid robot dental therapy simulator for dentists and students.

The robot, resembling an attractive young woman with long black hair and a pink sweater, can mumble "ouch" when the dentist hits a nerve.

(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)