2008

Aug

Schick's magnificent beard simulator

SoftBank starts taking online iPhone orders

Reformat the Planet

Music, Sound & Audio Tutorials - AUDIOTUTS

Griffin Technology: iTrip Universal

Whatever you think of tetrapods’ environmental impact,...

Some friends got married on August 8, 2008, at 8a.m., and...

Beijing Olympics opening ceremony photos

Another reminder of Japan’s neverending love for...

AquesTone - VOCAL SYNTHESIZER PLUG-IN

Multitrack recording application for Windows Mobile. Have to...

Softbank cuts iPhone data plan pricing

Tokyo Fantasy: Images of the apocalypse :::...

Jul

Bonbonkakku.com

Murakami's Norwegian Wood heads for the big...

mixi app for iPhone/iPod Touch

Name of the day: Arny Kapshitzer

A useful little gadget, the Eftel FOMA de Dock. Allows you...

ビッグママ

Interesting NYT article on Buddhism’s decline in...

Oh Buddha, Give Me a Break

Top Gear: Clarkson in a GTR, Hammond and May on a shinkansen. Yes.

Americans Adopting the Worst Elements of...

Citizen’s just announced a sports watch that can...

"Understanding the Yugen Element in the...

Emperor publishes study on tanuki crap

Aurora open source mixer/control surface

When I rule the world I will live in one of these....

White noise to calm the troubled heart

The tortoise and the train

Artists names minus a letter

These things only occur to you when your brain’s in neutral, I suspect, but: aren’t...

Jun

What it says on the box: Cute. If it took batteries and had...

World’s cutest drum machine: I mean, come on. An...

Fooling cigarette machine face recognition...

Aristophanes' fricassee and the Last Tsar

Whale meat: For the table, not the lab

Japan’s history of modifying perfectly good food and...

The dangers of fugu (by the ever-entertaining an englishman...

The proto-studio: The studio in its current...

iPhone from DoCoMo?

While DoCoMo’s recently been doing some damage control after its president declared on a news...

What price an iPhone? Now we know

Hey, this is Japan. Even the robots do origami. (Via Pink Tentacle)

WASP Injection Knife

As with so many good ideas it’s surprising in...

The Astounding Curta Mechanical Calculator (via rregister). I own a couple of these—they are...

Attacker liveblogs Akihabara preparations

Japanese cellphones too complex

Akihabara attack

ThinkGeek :: PowerSquid Surge

Keyboard Skins for Photoshop, Aperture, Final...

Moog’s launch video for the Moog Guitar (via Matrixsynth)

The Moog Guitar's out

This outgeeks more or less everything everywhere; a remix of Radiohead’s Nude played on a ZX...

Softbank gets the iPhone

I like Tokyo Flash’s watches, but I don’t...

Today's definition of slightly...

is downloading a documentary on Steve Reich only to find out it’s in Dutch.

Bome's Midi Translator - Bome Software

Taxis and the bleeding obvious

May

Latest on Dean Kamen and team’s work to develop a prosthetic arm. Wow, in a word.

Welcome to the twice-yearly DoCoMo cellphone...

Fredy Fantastico, drummer of robot band RozzoBianca (via Music Thing). I’d love to try...

Sounds from the cosmos

Today's definition of "slightly...

is having someone cold-call to ask if you’re interested in buying investment real estate, talk...

Bacteria solve math problem; not so much...

YMCK game sound plugin

Not news: new cellphone movie-sharing site....

Yamaha's Tenori-on launch woes, continued

American journalist who fell foul of the...

Sounds like they need to work on the resolution a bit, but...

I love it when Japan throws out these comedy riffs on its own techno-supermacy. In this case it also...

I’ve never really thought of Woody Allen as funny before. A whole lexicon of faint praise...

Japanese police give kerosene-soaked man cigs...

“Southern fried squirrel is good. And tandoori style works....”
— The ultimate ethical meal: a...

Doubtless blogged to extinction already, but this arrived in my morning email. The versions of...

What I would have done to have an Emergency Party Button at university. I would guess this...

Tenori-on Japan launch: Great way to treat...

the | squarewave | parade

I have a soft spot for chiptune music. Hardware is tough to beat for coming up with initial...

The jury is still partially out...

Manfrotto 585 Modosteady 3-in-1 Multifunction...

Japan's Metaphor for Opinionated Old Men's...

戸隠神社中社

Apr

"Yamaha Develops New Music Instrument From...

Rin Rin, Symbol of Japan's Obsession with...

Am I just getting old and easily impressed, or is the cool stuff we were promised from the future...

The Radiophonic legacy

Nagano's Olympic torch relay

Next time someone asks me if I eat natto, I can now whip out...

Was going to avoid all comment on this, but—that robot is flippin’ colossal for...

I’m interested to know if there’s some mismatch...

Not a tremendously new bit of news, but it is impressive...

Mega-Sonic Scatter-Cat. I’d appreciate a slightly more...

Wiimote Cufflinks, to show that you don’t drink the...

Gonorrhea the mighty

There are fields, endless fields, where bicycles are no longer born…they are grown. (Via...

South Korea clones sniffer dogs

Rightists' 'Yasukuni' preview gets thumbs...

When I saw the previous Urwerk model and couldn’t find any info on what it cost I naively...

You may have come across the video on YouTube of a 55-year-old part-timer foiling a convenience...

Something tells me the lads at Gizmodo could get more...

Virgin Media and their unbelievable evil

Alan Richman on Japan's take on foreign...

'Yasukuni' screening for right-wingers

MG-8R Joins Assembléon's A-Series Pick &...

Survey: Japanese cellphones' most trumpeted...

Sharp’s Windows Vista cellphone/UMPC for Japanese PHS...

Viewfinder: Overlaying Flickr photos on...

The "death growl", they call it

“In studies involving Internet telephone directories, Social...”
— Names That Match Forge a Bond...

Would someone kindly make a W-CDMA version of this? Quickly?...

Just saw these cheerfully advertised on Chinese TV in the...

Rather like this little one-seg digital TV adapter with 4GB...

Zhengzhou Alway Superhard Tools Co., Ltd.

A New Yorker noted to me today that since visiting Hong Kong he’d come to understand the...

Yellow Door Kitchen 黃色門廚房

aqua restaurant group

Flavour-melding instructions

Salmon sushi-flavoured crisps

BBC pronunciation gurus:

The name of the major Internet company currently fending off the Borg’s clammy embrace is not...

Salmon sushi and wasabi-flavoured crisps; how could you not,...

Continuing Hong Kong Week on Madplanet, here are The Vega, a classical Canto-pop group. Just saw...

Blog till you can blog no more

Tower panorama: A bit shaky since the auto-exposure whited...

Hotel room panorama

Vintage Roland synths, in your browser

Just found that my cellphone camera does panoramas, so...

Gas tax: Death and resurrection?

Bluetooth 2.1 adapter w, 300-foot range and support for 15...

Utterly brilliant. Tsukuba, Japan’s famously windless...

Marumi LED-8 LED Macro Ring Light for Compact...

Scheduling for Time Machine Backups

KDDI switching formats

Via the Keitai-l list (http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/), news that KDDI’s opting for LTE...

Had to happen. A response to the BigDog video we posted the other day. Dumb and funny.

After ADRs come JDRs

Face Contact, a CoverFlow-like interface for your WinMobile...

Radiohead remix contest: Because giving is...

Old Photos of Japan

Belatedly, I just came across this series of rotoscoped, Streetfightered-up sumo vids. There is a...

Yasukuni documentary screenings pulled