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Tag Archives: japan
New Japanese Pop Idol Shocks Fans With News–She’s Not Real (video)
Only 15 seconds in the limelight and she’d already created an overnight buzz. She was the newest member of the [...]
Posted in AI, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged Aimi Eguchi, AKB 48, computer generated, Hatsune Miku, japan
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Panasonic to Build World’s Greenest Town (video)
Panasonic has just partnered with eight other companies to build an eco-friendly town that uses the latest energy-saving and generating [...]
Posted in Singularity, Video Central
Tagged carbon footprint, ECO NAVI, eco-friendly, Fujisawa SST, green, japan, Panasonic
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Japan’s Nuclear Woes Give Rise to Crowd-Sourced Radiation Maps In Asia and US
The world’s eyes have been on Japan, watching the nation cope with earthquakes, tsunamis, and now the threat of poisoning [...]
Best Globally Crowdsourced Music Video Ever
With nothing more than webcams and a dedicated fan base, Japanese band Sour produced one of the coolest looking music [...]
Posted in Art
Tagged crowdsource, crowdsourced, crowdsourcing, Hal Kirkland, Hibo No Neiri, japan, Magico Nakamura, Masashi Kawamura, Masayoshi Nakamura, music video, Sour
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Robot Performs Wedding in Japan (Video)
For what was probably the first time in history, a Japanese couple was married under the cold mechanical gaze of [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged changing public attitudes about robots, culture, i-Fairy, japan, kokoro, wedding
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Recycling Robot Tackles Plastic Problem in Japan with Lasers
Mitsubishi, IDEC, and Osaka University have teamed up to help with Japan’s recycling problems. They’ve built a 1.7m x 2.1m [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged IDEC, japan, Mitsubishi, osaka university, Photonics Advanced Research Center, recycling
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Chinese Woman Surgically Modifies Fingerprints to Illegally Enter Japan
When people really want to enter a country, they’ll try anything. Chinese national Lin Rong, 27, reportedly paid surgeons 100,000 [...]
Posted in Singularity
Tagged biometrics, China, fake fingerprints, japan, lin rong, scanners
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Cool Robots from iREX 2009 (Pics and Video)
Japan gets all the cool stuff. Last week the International Robot Exhibition (iREX) finished in Tokyo with hundreds of exhibitors [...]