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PUFF! iPhone app gives Japan geeks their own Marilyn Monroe

Monday, October 12, 2009 - 1:42am

We've been waiting for (dreading?) the wave of oddball Japanese iPhone applications that were inevitable due to the country's penchant for creating the amazingly bizarre from seemingly mundane Western conventions. The latest "only in Japan" invention for the iPhone app...

PhotoSketch lets anyone be a Photoshop expert

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 8:46am

Well, this is pretty crazy. PhotoSketch is a web program that lets you make a crude, labeled sketch and turn it into a carefully Photoshopped image automatically. It works by searching the web for images corresponding to the shape and...

12-step program to improve the iTunes App Store

Monday, October 5, 2009 - 8:12am

The iTunes app store offers such a gigantic cornucopia of choices, it's downright bewildering. How will you ever find that gem in that pile of rubble that's 70,000 pieces high? Studies show that when presented with too many choices, cognitive...

Google offers animated Street View privacy policy video

Adario Strange

Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 8:45pm

In recent months Google Japan has been the target of numerous complaints from privacy-minded Japanese citizens concerned about the pervasive roving eye of Google Street View. To address those concerns Google Japan updated its Street View policy with a focus...

Google Japan deploys giant-sized map pins throughout Tokyo

Adario Strange

Monday, August 3, 2009 - 11:15pm

Like most things Japanese, the promotion for Google Japan's "Favorite Places" campaign is decidedly strange, yet innovative. Designed to promote the use of Google Maps, the campaign will plant life-sized Google Map markers at various hot spots around Tokyo during...

Japanese office workers get the Big Brother treatment

Adario Strange

Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 2:47am

The characters in George Orwell's 1984 had it good compared to Japanese workers tagged with new technology created by DSS Co. Ltd. The firm created a system that allows companies to track the movements and actions of their workers down...

iPhone Server Farm stretches the boundaries of smartphones

Adario Strange

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 2:59am

In recent months some have chirped that the iPhone is really a sort netbook in disguise, and now with the debut of a new prototype, the iPhone may start doing double duty as an ultra portable server solution. Created by...

A robot that can teach itself how to smile

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 7:18am

In February we told you about a robot Einstein head from Hanson Robotics that could (somewhat creepily) mimic human facial expressions. Thanks to a complex 31-motor mechanism and a skin-like material dubbed "Frubber," the fake Einstein could show everything from...

Nearest Tube brings augmented reality to iPhone 3GS

Adario Strange

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 3:02am

New owners of the iPhone 3GS have yet another reason to make iPhone 3G users green with envy with the introduction of the app called Nearest Tube. The makers of the app (acrossair of the UK) call it an "augmented...

Garmin navigates to a quick fix for a big problem

Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 5:03am

One day after an email went out that Garmin had a glitch in their software for the nüvi 7x5 series, the fix is out. The glitch was that the nav units were trying to do unwanted firmware upgrades and also...

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PUFF! iPhone app gives Japan geeks their own Marilyn Monroe

PhotoSketch lets anyone be a Photoshop expert

12-step program to improve the iTunes App Store

Google offers animated Street View privacy policy video

Google Japan deploys giant-sized map pins throughout Tokyo

Japanese office workers get the Big Brother treatment

iPhone Server Farm stretches the boundaries of smartphones

A robot that can teach itself how to smile

Nearest Tube brings augmented reality to iPhone 3GS

Garmin navigates to a quick fix for a big problem

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