Archive for January, 2008

Most of girls out there love facials, but what if the next facial you got was done by a hi-tech robot? In Japan, the technology to do this already exists thanks to the Tokyo’s Waseda University. The university developed WAO-1 (the Waseda Asahi Oral Rehabilitation) at the first place just for relieving the symptoms of disorders such as xerostomia, jaw arthritis and swallowing disorder. Treatments that apply “just the right amount of pressure” without excessive force have been realized by using existing technologies developed for robots according to the project leader Atsuo Takanishi, but is now being considered for beautician to use it in beauty spas.

“The Legend is Real”

Nissan’s Future Sports Car sometimes called Nissan Skyline GTR 2009 Concept Car. Now it’s time to take the Nissan Skyline GTR series (Skyline GTR 2009) back on the street-where it belongs!

The original model of Nissan Skyline GT-R might have be on the streets in 1969, but it wasn’t until 1990 that the GT-R legend would be solidified. That was the year the Skyline GT-R was introduced to an utterly stunned Japanese market. It was the first of three twin-turbocharged, all-wheel-drive and all-wheel-steering Skylines (R32, R33 and R34) and it’s the generation upon which the Skyline GT-R legend rests.

Initial speculation suggested that because this Skyline could cost as much as $70K-$80K it would be sold under the Infiniti nameplate in the U.S. With its debut scheduled for this fall’s Tokyo auto show, expect to see the Nissan Skyline GTR 2009 in showrooms in the spring of 2008.

Almost Ready To Hit The Street

Shock no. 7: Sony’s Organic EL TV: Last year (November), Sony Corp released a 3mm-thick display television set, featuring Organic Electro Luminescent(OEL) technology. The 11-inch XEL-1 is the world’s first consumer OEL product. Sony accelerated the release schedule which was initially Dec 1 to take advantage of the year-end sales season. The price is scheduled about 200,000 yen.

Organic Electro Luminescent (OEL) is a new technology for display systems, enabling thinner display, clearer resolution and less energy consumption. Organic Electro Luminescent (OEL) technology is expected to replace the conventional display system in the future. It’s looks stylish & futuristic right?

Via JapanToday

Watch Sony’s Organic Electro Luminescent-EL TV Video Here:

Shock no. 6: Wall Climbing Robot a.k.a Spiderman Robot: Do  you know what is ‘Spiderman’? He is one of the fictional superheroes that was having ability to walk or crawl on the wall. ‘Spiderman’ is what we called him. Do you think it’s impossible for us to walk on the wall? Here’s the idea: Recently, Hideji Nakata professor from Hokaido tech college Japan has developed a wall walking or crawling robot.

Recently the researchers at Duke University Medical Center have used a monkey’s brain activity (thoughts) to control a robot on the other side of the globe(US-Japan). In what researchers found as a first-of-its-kind experiment, monkeys’ thoughts in US controlled the real walking patterns of a robot in Japan (synchronization).

They can walk in complete synchronization,” said Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, who also is the Anne W. Deane Professor of Neuroscience at Duke. “The most stunning finding is that when we stopped the treadmill and the monkey ceased to move its legs, it was able to sustain the locomotion of the robot for a few minutes — just by thinking — using only the visual feedback of the robot in Japan.

Now, here comes the hero for the ‘last gadget standing’ from Consumer Electronic Show CES 2008. What do you think the winner it is? (of course you already knew it from the post tittle huh? :D)Ten finalists competed to see which gadget could stand the test of time, while the audience voted for their favorite. Though all of the finalists were winners in their own right, there could be only one hero. It’s the Eye-Fi the wireless memory card.

Here comes the list of top 10 ‘last man standing’ gadgets from Consumer Electronic Show 2008. Which one do you think will be the hero? Stay tuned with us!

Eye-Fi is a specially designed low-power wireless chip with a 2GB memory card. When installed in just about any of today’s digital cameras, it automatically transfers photos from the camera to a Mac or PC or any of the popular photo-sharing sites and social networks.

Asus Eee PC 4G is a computer that costs only $399, has a tiny 7-inch screen, runs Linux, and comes with a suite of great software applications.