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Robotic suit that helps people with mobility problems available for rent in Japan

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2008-10-11 16:31:37 by dhiram in Fareastgizmos.com
...Japan will mass-produce a robotic suit that reads brain signals and helps people with mobility problems. HAL- short for hybrid assistive limb -is a computerized suit with sensors that read brain signals directing limb movement through the skin. The robotic suit will be available for rent in Japan for 220,000 ($2,200) a month .The invention...
 
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Japan to start overseas cell phone technology push

2008-09-08 23:08:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...Japan will start an aggressive push to market abroad its mobile technology, especially the nation's popular "wallet phone," a government official said Tuesday Although Japan boasts some of the most sophisticated cell phones in the world, delivering high-speed Internet connections, digital TV broadcasts and video downloads, the nation has...
 
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30 million Symbian smartphone shipments in Japan up until the end of November 2007

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2008-01-17 10:39:44 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...Japan up until the end of November 2007 According to the companys numbers, Symbian OS marketshare of the NTT DoCoMo FOMA market grew in one year from 50% to 65% at the end of H1 2007. To date, a total of 69 mobile phone models based on Symbian OS have launched in Japan by six Symbian customers: Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Nokia, Motorola, Sharp and...
 
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What's Not Hot in Japan? Try iPhone

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2008-09-15 17:30:26 by Editor in VoIP & Gadgets Blog
...Japan Apple 's partnership with Japan's third-largest mobile operator, Softbank Corp ., to sell the iPhone 3G certainly created a buzz. Like elsewhere, Japanese consumers lined up at stores in advance of the phone's release on July 11, and many locations sold out almost immediately But now analysts estimate that demand in Japan has fallen...
 
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Think Tank: Greying Japan On Its Way To Robot Majority

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2008-04-10 11:54:11 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...Japan's intricately formalized rules of social decorum: perhaps the culture has reacted explosively to the lack of personal space by building up psychological breathing room in every transaction, constructing as many obstacles as possible between two human beings actually interacting I suspect this same theory goes a long way towards...
 
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Apple secures 'iPhone' trademark in Japan - 3G iPhone coming to Japan?

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2008-04-22 19:45:36 by Will Park in IntoMobile
...Japanese company Aiphone . The two companies have apparently come to terms with the use of the iPhone trademark in Japan, allowing both Apple and Aiphone to use the trademark. Aiphone has reportedly been talking to Apple since last summer over the iPhone trademark While Aiphone isn't exactly the same as iPhone, both words are apparently...
 
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Apple looking to launch 3G iPhone in Korea and Japan

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2008-05-21 20:39:20 by Will Park in IntoMobile
...Japanese wireless markets. Previous reports indicated that Japan would not be getting the iPhone anytime soon, seeing as how the nation's 3G network did not mesh well with the current iPhone. But, Apple is reportedly looking to bring their next-generation iPhone to both Korea and Japan in a joint-launch on Korea Free Telecom (KTF) and NTT...
 
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SoftBank brings iPhone to Japan

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2008-06-04 10:34:29 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...Japan has been announced - it's SoftBank. The short release states SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Japan later this year Engadget notes that it's interesting to see whether they'll get a 3G iPhone. SoftBank is a W-CDMA (UMTS 3G), not GSM/EDGE carrier, a fact that points them...
 
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Japan launches Kizuna the 1.2 gigabytes per second yielding satellite.

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2008-02-26 06:45:58 by HASH0x8b63334 in Newlaunches.com
...Japanese passion for experimenting is admirable. You have to remember that this is the country that kept us on our toes in the format wars of Blu-Ray Vs the experimental HD-DVD. It has now launched an experimental communications satellite Saturday designed to enable super high-speed data transmission at home and in Southeast Asia. The...
 
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