CCP Japan has good news to the ladies who hate dry weather. Their new humidifier is so portable that you can do SPA in the office, at the library or anywhere as long as you can find a mains power plug. The body itself measures 110x65x76mm and weighs 400g. The best part is that this tiny machine drinks water from ...

Japanese game publisher Mobcast has started selling their new BREW cellphone game titled “Camera Action Hero” on AU KDDI’s portal for 100yen ($1). At first glance this looks like just another Mario-esque game about jumping around and shooting monsters. However the company added a little twist to this and decided to make use of the camera on your phone. On ...

The scary thing about earthquakes is not so much about falling ceilings anymore, at least in Japan. More injuries are incurred due to the fact that the power is off and people can’t see (along with gas explosions, fire and falling shelf objects). Most commercial office buildings are equipped with emergency lighting, but what if you want them at home? ...

The Japanese love dogs. They decided that it is a good idea to put pedometers on them and estimate how fit they are (no it doesn’t count the proximity between your kids and Michael Jackson). Supposedly dogs tend to move less when they’re sick. Anyway, if your dog has been running around in your house all day, you might not ...

Screw a golden chocolate egg. We want one of these gold colored PSPs. The PSP-1000 CG, the newest model number for the new color, CG standing for Champagne Gold, is expected for release in Japan in late February for the US equivalent of $175. We heard through the grapevine that Veruca Salt’s opinion of the new PSP is kind of ...

Japan’s second largest mobile operator AU KDDI announced 3 new phones this morning, but we are more interested in their upgraded service “Anshin-Navi”. The Sanyo A5525SA and Sweets Cute phones are targeted to young kids. Their parents can subscribe to the Anshin-Navi service which automatically detects the phone’s location by GPS, and check it on their phones or PCs. What’s ...

So you think that fridges are used to keep things cold eh? Wrong! Sharp continues to wow us with their new fridges. Now you can frost and defrost food in the same compartment. Sharp is starting to put this feature on to their premium refrigerator models, calling this the Aijo-hotto-ko, meaning “romantic heated container”. While we have no discernment to ...

We never understand the Japanese passion for refrigerators, they seem to come up with a lot of weird ideas that when you think about them, might be really handy. Sharp’s fridges might not be the bestselling, but they’re surely capturing a lot of attention on their fridge doors. These new 300 Liter (volume) fridges are equipped with “Docchimo-doa” fridge doors ...

    We’ve seen OLED around for ages, but we have never seen them really mass-marketed to substitute LCDs, they’re only found on the external screens of certain mobile phones, or small digital audio devices. Sony is keeping us drooling at again by showing fully-assembled 1cm thin OLED displays at CES this year, the largest one measuring 27″ diagonally, with ...

Everyone knows how annoying it is to be woken up by that stupid repetitive beeping you alarm clock makes at 5:30 in the morning. All this does is start off your day wrong; a sure sign that your day is going to go down hill fast. Now if you woke up to some of your favorite tunes, then you�d probably ...