Fuji Five Lakes, the area located at the base of Mt. Fuji is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Japan. Around the area, you can enjoy hiking and…

Cars are sometimes cartoonized in films and anime, but what if it becomes real? Well, there is a possibility! Nissan, Hara Design Institute, and Roica (Asahi Kasei Fibers Corporation) experimentally…

  This adorable creature is a Twitter reading robot, Twimal. It was released by a Japanese toy company, Takara Tomy on March 31, 2011. Twimal plugs into a pc via…

I found an interesting robot on YouTube. It’s a shoulder-mounted avatar with a camera, a microphone, and a speaker for remote communication.     “With video chat, people can communicate…

  Japanese student team Skeletonics Production Committee made “action-extend” suit, named Skeletonics, which a combined word of skeleton and mechanics. End of the last month, they announced the completion of…

The other day, I made some posts about “the world’s first bipedal robot full marathon” on the JAPAN Style Facebook page. And today, I would like to write about it…

You may have seen or made domino effect. When one block doesn’t contact another, it doesn’t work, right? But it does work with “ESPer Domino.”     The blocks are…

  One of the popular genres in Nico Nico Douga is “Jinriki Vocaloid,” which means “Man-Power Vocaloid” in English, and it is kind of like a collage of voice.　It is…

  West Japan Railway Company had a test-run of the new type railroad car for Sanyo Kyushu Shinkansen (bullet train line) “Mizuho” and “Sakura,” and 200 passengers who were chosen…

Four small and medium-sized enterprises from Kansai area made a rickshaw-like electric car, “Meguru” as a part of “Appare EV Project.” The name meguru is written “環” which is from…

SEGA, a Japanese game company is now testing its new game machine for public bathrooms at bars and game arcades in Tokyo area.     The toilet game machine “Toilets”…