This isn’t related much to the content of this website, but it is significant enough to show. I don’t know how old this is but I’ve just seen it.

What will the internet, the world be like in 2014? A video from that time tells us what could happen. The future involves Google, Amazon, and Epic [...]

Everybody likes their camera phone, right? Well some Japanese might just like their’s a bit too much. Apparently, people have been using these tiny cameras at funerals. Some mourners actually pull out their camera phone to get that final snapshot of the dead.

Morbid? Creepy? Wierd? A creative use of technology? For better, but mostly worse, [...]

French mega-corp, Vivendi now owns 100% of Universal Studios Holding I, the world’s largest record company. Vivendi is the majority shareholder and parent company of Universal. This full ownership comes after Japanese corporation, Matsushita sold all of it’s holdings to Vivendi for 1.15 billion dollars.
Matsushita owned 7.6 percent of the company but that seemingly small [...]

Well this news hits on the geekier side of the news spectrum. It is still of overall importance though. Plus I’m currently taking a photography class, if that alludes to anything. Personal commentary aside, here’s the story.

Notable Japanese camera manufacturer Konica Minolta is withdrawing from the photography business. Not only is the once-groundbreaking company following [...]

Nobody ever forgets their cell phone, right? That is the idea of the Kanagawa Institute of Technology. The university will have student ID cards digitized and put in cell phones come April.

Instead of carrying around an easy to lose plastic card, each student’s ID card will be in his/her cell phone.

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I’ve recently seen an flashy commercial on TV for IFEZ, the Incheon Free Econimic Zone. Most of what I remember are skyscrapes, water, a kid, and buisness people on a walkway. Vague summary huh? That isn’t important though. This ad sparked much curiousity in my mind. A commericial advertising such a thing seems very unique. [...]

A curiosity of mine has always been robots. The closest thing to my technological dreams is Honda’s ASIMO. ASIMO (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility) is an advanced bipedal humanoid robot. The robot can move about much like a human: foward, backwards, sideways, on stairs, and even more advanced fuctions like running and kicking a soccer [...]