When I was living in Atlanta before moving back to Japan, I was what they call “a cord-cutter” — someone who decided to give up cable and satellite TV, as well as just using my cell phone as my only…
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Google mashes all it’s storage options together to give you 15GB free storage
Come Together! Google Products!Looks like the folks over at Google are taking your storage space and moving all in one spot. You can now have 15GB for you to share across Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos. This is just one of…
Cheap or Free Wi-Fi around the Tokyo Metropolitan Area (and the rest of Japan too!)
Most travelers to Japan (along with your author) come from places where the second we hop off the plane in a new place, we turn on our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and even our PSPs to log on to the internet…
Nationwide IC farecard interoperability has begun
In Japan, most transportation companies use some variation of Sony’s Felica NFC standard for use as a transit pass and stored “e-money”, but up until now, the transit companies couldn’t make it so someone using a Tokyo area issued “SUICA”…
Shibuya Connection Update: track shift method at Daikanyama station
Thanks to GOOGLE and tetsudo.com I dug up a few things I’ve been curious about for months about this project: How the heck are they gonna switch the tracks into the new tunnel in only 4 1/2 hours in the…
Tagged with: Daikan-yama Station, Shibuya Tokyo, Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line, Tōkyū Tōyoko Line
Posted in info, japan, tech
Posted in info, japan, tech
Google to Photograph Street Views of Evacuated Town in Fukushima
This falls in line with a project I’m working on with Sophia University. Can’t expound on it now, but lets just say it utilizes my skill set in media production as well as the light IT stuff I can do…
Tagged with: East Japan Earthquake amp; Tsunami, Fukushima, google, Internet, Sophia University
Posted in japan, tech, video
Posted in japan, tech, video
JR East testing Wi-Fi based passenger information systems
With the proliferation of Wi-Fi capable smartphones in Japan, it was only a matter of time before a train company put this technology to good use. Enter “TrainNet”, Japan Railway’s moniker for the new service. The concept is simple. Install…
If you’re happy and you know it, wag your tail! (Tailly, a Kickstarter project)
Now you can tell the world just how excited (or nonplussed) you are in the same fashion as man’s best friend, if this latest Kickstarter project from Japan meets it’s goal. A combination of cosplay, wearable computing, and neuroscience are…
