Tag Archives: Tokyo

Tokyo’s Digital Billboards Know Who’s Checking Them Out

Be careful if you’re riding the trains around Tokyo this summer, the billboards may be watching you. A consortium of [...]

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Iphone App Lets You See What People Are Tweeting Inside Building

If you’re not satisfied with projecting videos onto a building, or turning it into a giant pinball machine, maybe you’d [...]

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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 [...]

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Haptic Ring Lets You Feel Objects in Augmented Reality (Video)

The first thing that we often give children to hold is a stuffed animal so it makes sense that the [...]

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Holograms You Can Feel

Ladies and gentlemen, we are one step closer to having a fully functional holodeck. Thanks to the Shinoda Lab at [...]

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Cyberdyne Lets Hal Cyborgs Take a Stroll Through Tokyo

The Cyborg revolution marches inexhaustibly forward. Last Monday, the Cyberdyne company had three of its employees strut the streets of [...]

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