Archive for the ‘Gadgets’ Category
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Via DannyChoo.com, technabob
When I first saw the title, I thought Bandai had introduced a new line of Gundam markers for avid Gunpla modellers. Unfortunately these Gundam inspired pens houses a regular ballpoint ink pen which..well writes on paper. Released as part of their 30th Anniversary of the series, you can ...
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
My Mac's Time Machine backup finally outgrew the 80Gb drive which I was using since a month ago. So I figure it is time I move my backups to my Maxtor external desktop storage which I won in a lucky draw a few months ago.
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
AkibaHobby.net has photo coverage of the recent Dream Party 2008 event which featured lots of interesting looking figures, dakimakura and some really mean looking cars with great anime artwork. I also happen to spot this among the photos:
Yeap ! That's Cyber Maid Alice which I covered some time ago. It ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Earlier at Nintendo's Media Summit, Satoru Iwata, CEO of Nintendo has revealed the rumour sucessor to the popular Nintendo DS console, Nintendo DSi. The DSi features dual camera, one on the front cover and another on the hinge facing the players and come with a SD card slot along with ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Via Gizmodo
Naoki Maru of Kyoto, Japan may have built one of the more impressive control devices for a robot. Using what he calls a "master-slave" technology built onto a harness, the mechanism captures the movement of the pilot and transmits it to the robot via bluetooth and replicates the movement. ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Can't get enough of the Eva mania at your work place ? Impress your otaku work buddies with this pair of Evangelion inspired flash drives. On sale from 27 September, they come in 2Gb capacities and are priced at 3,980 yen each. After googling around I came across this chibi ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Halfway across the globe we have the Western version of an anime convention, the San Diego Comic Con 2008 ! SDCC 2008 was held from the 24th till 27th July at San Diego Convention Center. In Asia we have people cosplaying as Gundams and while in the West we get ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
I'm not sure how I should describe this, in a way this is really really cool but at the same time its just so.. ecchi. Geisha Tokyo Entertainment Inc recently introduced the Cyber Figure Alice for all those lonely otakus out there. How it works is that you'll get a ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
According to MSNBC, Sega Toys has built a 15" tall robotic "female companion" aka girlfriend targeting the lonely adult male market in Japan. EMA, as it is known, stands for Eternal Maiden Actualization (whatever the heck that's suppose to mean) is capable of singing, dancing, handing out business cards and ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
I just got myself a new mouse to replace my crappy no-brand optical mouse which I have been using with my Mac. I was having a hard time choosing one till I finally settled with the Logitech MX518. I'm currently using a Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 on my desktop ...
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