Tag: Mobile phones

Moff is based in Tokyo but has its sights firmly on the global market. Its wearable smart toy Moff Band was released internationally after a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2014. Now it has ...

NTT Docomo has produced a video illustrating how it is dangerous to look at your phone while you walk, even if you are a samurai. In the video, hapless samurai are shown walking in a pilgrimage ...

Is this future of online shopping and gaming? DeNA has launched Mirrativ, a live-streaming Android app that allows users to stream and share their device screen with other users, as well as watch ...

KDDI is developing a new series of projects engaging with the Internet of Things. The first results are two home interior items sold through its au WALLET Market arm from late October. The ...

Japanese phone carrier au has launched a campaign inspired by the "wordless communication" that takes place between husband and wife, in this case through the medium of the daily bento ...

Dig Info has released a nice video showcasing an interesting smartphone optical data communication development by Panasonic. The new technology uses an LED light source to allow a smartphone to ...

Head into a KFC in Japan on March 1st and if you're clumsy enough, you can get a free drink. The Ebisu branch of KFC is running a special campaign rewarding those poor souls among us who have ...

Bandai has created a second installment in its Crazy Case series of phone covers. The Back to the Future: Part II DeLorean iPhone 6 Case takes your right back to 1989 and the coolest thing every ...

Thanko are our favorite Japanese gadget makers, not least because their approach to the marketing is always so gleefully down-to-earth but also because they deliberately find everyday problems and ...

NEC has got together with Fashion TV to offer a smartphone and tablet service for mobile eCommerce for apparel items you see in a magazine. If you see an item in a magazine you like, you can use ...

The "Underwater Knee-High Girls" series of aquatic slinky ladies by photographer Manabu Koga has already produced two photography books and a current photography exhibition. Now they can be swimming ...

Last month United Arrows' en route brand ran a special "crowdsourced fashion show" on the streets of Omotesando and Harajuku. In the words of Contagious.com, The Snap Up campaign saw "fashion ...

How would you like to use your phone while it remains snug in your pocket or bag? These glasses bring us one step closer to this. Already spotted by Engadget and others at CNET Japan Live 2014, ...

Here is a documentary called Emoji Among Us, now available on Dissolve. This short documentary (more like a trailer for a documentary) declares that emoji have become infused in our lives and ...

Stores of SoftBank, one of Japan's three main mobile phone providers, will be staffed by robots, announced CEO and Japan's richest man Masayoshi Son at a press conference today in Tokyo. The ...