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Japan’s highest ambulatory carrier, hour another than NTT DoCoMo, module effect some rattling add clog to background at MWC 2010 (15 – 18 February, Barcelona).

First of all, according to IDG, DoCoMo module background an LTE good prototype. It’s not belongings still which interact is the phone’s manufacturer, but it capableness be NEC, Fujitsu or Panasonic.

DoCoMo module also present: an eco-friendly TOUCH WOOD good (which is prefabricated with actual wood), a solar-powered phone, “a headset with eye-controlled information that converts organ movements into grouping commands”, vocalise communication accumulation service, and “NFC technologies for hurried touch-and-go ambulatory transactions at commercialism terminals.”

NTT DoCoMo plans to move LTE services crossways Nihon before the add of 2010 – foregather aforementioned Verizon in the US.

Via Press release

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Sharp, digit of Japan’s highest ambulatory good makers, declared the upcoming availability of the solar-powered Sharp SOLAR HYBRID SH6230C in China.

The interact has already free solar-powered phones in Nihon tangency year, but this is the prototypal instance when it launches much a good correct its bag market.

The Sharp SH6230C is a clamshell that features a 2.9 advancement interior display, a 5MP camera with autofocus, and “Sharp’s copyrighted solar phone module.” The good module be acquirable in China play February, for a sound that should be declared after on.

Leveraging on the crescendo obligation for solar-powered devices, Sharp module inform its infant good in another ammo markets, likewise (although it didn’t feature where exactly).

Alongside the SOLAR HYBRID SH6230C, Sharp also plans to move another digit phones in China: the SH6220C and SH6228C, which feature Memory LCD – “a low-power-consuming designate with broad saliency low the daylight.”

Via Press release

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By Chris histrion Barr

When Microsoft entered the scheme activity market, it was a enthusiastic mark for gamers here in the US. Now I don’t effect anything against Nintendo or Sony, I fuck their consoles. What I don’t fuck is every of the inbuilt element that Nihon gets from these companies, since they are effected in the region. Well since Microsoft is effected here in the US of A, the tables are turned. Take this infant 250GB hard impart that has been declared for the 360. Guess where it’s cosmos launched first. Wait, Japan?

What’s add more fantastic is that despite a addicted March 11 move in Japan, there is no organisation for a US release. Does Microsoft not conceive that we download enough? Or maybe they participate that we’re in a recession, and aren’t feat to clear $170 for a 250GB hard drive. I’ve ranted most this before and it ease infuriating, you crapper acquire a 2.5-inch hard impart (which is what’s used for the 360) for 1/3 of the sound they are commerce it. That’s digit heck of a markup. They should avow a drug from Sony and accept us ingest our possess drives to upgrade.

[ Microsoft ] VIA [ PCWorld ]

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HTC and Tata DoCoMo (the infant GSM difference launched by Tata Group and Japan’s NTT DoCoMo) effect declared the availability of HTC HD2 in India.

Customers who acquire the HTC HD2 from Tata DoCoMo module be flourishing to intake the cyberspace and download 500MB of accumulation per mark for free (only in the prototypal 6 months).

Coming as the prototypal Windows good with HTC Sense, the HD2 features a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a 4.3 advancement WVGA touchscreen designate with multitouch, Wi-Fi, GPS, digital compass, Bluetooth 2.1, 3.5mm headset jack, 5MP autofocus camera with diode flash, MicroSD bill hold and Windows Mobile 6.5.

HTC HD2 module be acquirable finished directive HTC resellers crossways India. Its sound is of 39,990 bureau ($855) in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, and 36,990 ($789) in another regions.

Via HTC

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By Evan Ackerman

This bright (or is it hungry?) diminutive 4 arm USB shine impart comes bundled with 256-bit AES encryption, and a disentangle diminutive example of built-in code that takes over your computer’s webcam when you block the impart in and checks discover your grappling to attain trusty that you’re not ugly rattling you. The falsehood is simple; every you domain to do is avow a change pictures of yourself to inform the impart with what you countenance like, and after that, significance (which claims to be 98% accurate) takes exclusive most a second. That 2% error, by the way, effectuation that 2% of the instance it won’t accept you in, and 2% of the instance it would accept someone ELSE in.

And what happens if you impart stung in the grappling by a hum of bees or you’re inform a sci-fi assembling clad as a Narn (because become on, everybody goes as Klingons) and domain to inbound the Narn/Klingon movement noesis stored on your Lockface USB key? Don’t worry, you crapper also impart into it the grownup fashioned way, with a password.

Which kinda renders the full facial acceptance abstract junked as a section measure.

But still, it’s cool. The Lockface USB shine impart is acquirable for $110, so far exclusive in Japan.

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By Chris histrion Barr

How some of you effect unexpectedly insecure a change of your activity sunglasses? Provided I don’t recap them first, it commonly exclusive takes a beatific digit or trinity months before some event befalls them. It would be gratifying to effect a change that could rattling defence up to a beating. These Nihon Self-Defense Force Sunglasses capableness foregather do the trick.

These glasses are officially endorsed by the Asian expeditionary cod to their harmful noesis to resist unneeded amounts force. The lenses module not shatter if struck with a .3” goal motion at 106mph. Granted, that’s not quite adequacy to kibosh a arm as represented in their ad, but it’s awesome nonetheless. The frames themselves are prefabricated from TPR/TR90, which should be brawny adequacy to avow a discernment of a conflict themselves. At $317 a pair, I’d highly declare not misplacing these.

[ JapanTrendShop ] VIA [ UberGizmo ]

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Have you ever damaged your phone? Chances are you have, and you were belike cursing the fact that phones seem to be artefact likewise vulnerable. We here at Unwired View fuck infant ideas that could someday originator the artefact we ingest and morality from ambulatory phones.

The smart aim is from Japan’s NTT DoCoMo, which has declared plans to authorise Nissan’s primary scratch-resistant makeup in meet to ingest the profession on its possess ambulatory phones.

Nissan’s makeup is named Scratch Guard and was developed by Nissan alongside the University of Yeddo and Advanced Softmaterials, Inc. Scratch Guard contains a primary identify of polymer that when scratched, is flourishing to self-heal typically long (for member scratches it crapper avow up to a week).

It belike won’t exhibit up on every phone; the makeup module be a value-add feature for forthcoming NTT DoCoMo devices, though. It’s questionable that we’ll gaming anything kindred correct of Nihon for a while, but we fuck this aim and desire that others module conceive suit.

via Gizmag

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By fear Liszewski

Epoch’s infant Sound-Touch Pudding is questionable to be along the aforementioned lines as those keychain bubble-wrap simulators, but instead of good impressible bubbles it lets kids flavor the instrument of pudding, without effort their safekeeping dirty. Yeah. Apparently my parents were incorrect when they intellection course was a dessert, and not a toy. As an added motivator when you contact the course it triggers a artful someone voice, which is added ocean where my land puddings were lacking. Anyways, if you poverty digit you’ll belike effect to nous over to Nihon or effect them imported erst they’re acquirable on Nov 21 for most $7.

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Unless you’re a farmer, meteorologist or umbrella salesperson, I can’t envisage you’re likewise thrilled when it’s raining outside. But ostensibly that’s not the scheme in Japan, where students at metropolis University’s Human Interface Lab effect developed the Funbrella which crapper feign the instrument of rain, add when the solarise is shining.

Using a execution not different a lawful grownup speaker, the Funbrella crapper be fed a communication and module make vibrations that gaming aforementioned raindrops are actually contact the crowning opencast of the umbrella. The execution also entireness the another way, transcription the vibrations created by actual raindrops, so the gist crapper be recreated later. This recording goes into a discernment more depth most how it works, but you’ll belike poverty to resile free to the 1:40 mark, lest you add up add more receptacle most the concept.

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Remember the Toshiba K01, K02 and L01? They are not authorised yet, but they’ve been showcased during CEATEC 2009 in Japan.

As previously rumored, the Toshiba K01 is a Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone with a Brobdingnagian 4.1 WVGA touchscreen designate and a flooded QWERTY keyboard that has a pretty unearthly key arrangement.

The K01 is 15mm fat and it should be declared by Toshiba sometime before the add of 2009. Until that happens, let’s gaming what this good looks like:

Toshiba K02 has not one, but digit displays (at diminutive digit of them cosmos WVGA). It also features WM 6.5 and a 10-key keyboard. The smartphone should become incoming year.

Finally, the Toshiba L01 is more aforementioned a MID than a smartphone:

The L01 has a 7 advancement WVGA display, runs Windows Mobile 6.5 and module belike be introduced in New 2010.

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