Category: Tech

NihongoUp Contest Winners

A big thank you to everyone who took the time to enter the NihongoUp giveaway contest I have been hosting for the past 2 weeks

Video of my Room and Gundam Figures

For over a year now I have been dragging my feet and putting off starting a Youtube channel. I killed off my original Youtube

Win a copy of NihongoUp

I teased it a few days ago in my review and as promised I have teamed up with Philip Seyfi of NihongoUp to give visitors to Ja

I Speak Japanese – Japan focused Videos

For the past few months I have been enjoying an excellent blog called I Speak Japanese more specifically their video entries e

Firefox 3.5 Released – Upgraded Yet?

Firefox 3.5 was released with a long list of new features, functions, updates and tweaks. I’ve been taking the new versi

i-Real Personal Mobility Vehicle by Toyota

Japan keeps coming up with more and more exotic uses for technology, but what might seem strange and almost humorous now might

I Like searching with Bing – Here is why

Bing is the new internet search engine from Microsoft, it replaces Live Search, MSN search and Windows Live Search to become t

Lunar Orbiter Kaguya’s Mission ends

Japan’s Kaguya probe was launched in late 2007. It’s official name was Selenological and Engineering Explorer (SEL

Meet Japan’s E5 Series Shinkansen

Come Spring 2011 Japan will add another Shinkansen model to it’s already impressive lineup. The E5 Series Shinkansen wil

Blog updates, tweaks, polls and more

Since converting to WordPress I have been slowly tweaking, updating and optimizing my blog to make it more useful to readers.

From My Other Blogs – Final Edition

For the Last year I have been making monthly posts containing a recap of interesting posts from my photography blog and my vid

America’s F-22 not going to Japan’s Airforce

For many years now I have had a F-22 Raptor obsession, I would buy one if I had the money and I screamed like Japanese schoolg

Tokyo Time-lapse by Samuel Cockedey

Following up on the Alone in the Tokyo Video Phillip Bloom I surfed into another great Tokyo related video that also highlight

Android Teaches Class in Japan

Can you imagine one day showing up at school only to find out that your teacher for that day would be an experimental humanoid

Online TV from Japan in English – JIBtv

Japan International Broadcasting Incorporated or JIBtv is a recently launched 24 hour online television channel based in Japan

From my other Blogs – Tenth Edition

This is the tenth edition of a monthly recap of interesting posts from my photography blog and my video game blog. Eyeshrine.c

Japansoc Poken Contest Entry

The nice guys over at Japansoc.org are having a wonderful giveaway. It is super easy to enter and you could win the latest gad

Jamaipanese on Youtube

No I am not starting a channel just yet but for months I am been thinking about it. I am not sure what I will make videos of j

Japan’s Shinkansen – The Bullet Train

The BBC’s website has been a very important resource for me over the years for not only news related to Japan but throug

Control a Robot with your thoughts

Honda’s research and development arm, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) and Shimadzu Co

From my other Blogs – Ninth Edition

This is the ninth edition of a monthly recap of interesting posts from my photography blog and my video game blog. Eyeshrine.c

The Tokyo VR Project Discontinued?

A year and a half ago I blogged about a project that was underway to create an online VR recreation of Tokyo using 360 degree

Twouble with Twitters Hilarious Video

For the last few days almost everyone has been tweeting about and linking to a hilarious video on Youtube called Twouble with

Japansoc.com – Japan Social Community

Japansoc.com is a digg style Japan themed social bookmarking site I have been a member of for over a year now. Japansoc is sho