Part of Japan's ability to grab the technology spotlight so often is the country's ability to showcase new breakthroughs in interesting ways. The latest Japanese milestone via gimmick comes from professor Masayuki Nakao of the University of Tokyo who recently...

We're not sure if this is a twisted marketing move or just bad timing, but Docomo has unveiled 19 new cell phone models and none of them are the eagerly anticipated iPhone. Rumors have been swirling recently that Korea and...

The brains at NTT Docomo's research lab have been hard at work trying to figure out yet another way to tie Japanese salarymen closer to work, and their latest invention just might do the trick. The system, ominously called Firmo,...

Music purists still shunning the all software instruments currently available to musicians take heart, there is a compromise available. The KORG DS-10 software has been released as software for the Nintendo DS. The original synthesizer keyboard version of this model...