Archive for the ‘Gadgets’ Category

Dream Party 2008

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 ...

Nintendo announces Nintendo DSi

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 ...

Gundam Master/Slave Control Suit to pilot Fighting Robots !!

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. ...

Evangelion Plug Drives

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 ...

San Diego Comic Con 2008

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 ...

Cyber Maid Alice - Every perverty Otaku’s dream

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 ...

Sega To Make Girlfriends… no seriously..

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 ...

No love for my MX518.. not on my Mac at least

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 ...

The Mac Experience

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Introduction In my earlier post on the MacBook, I mentioned that it'd be difficult to cover the Mac experience in one post, so I've decided to write a regular feature on the Mac Experience. Today we'll start by taking a brief look at the MacOS X desktop.

MacBook Pro

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Introduction Behold, the Macbook Pro. I had initially thought of writing one long review on it but after using it for some time I think one review just isn't gonna cut it. The whole experience of using a Mac is rather unique and I thought it is something worth sharing. ...