This is a music video of a promotion of a pachinko machine. The singer that appears in the video is Kabuda Nobuaki, a Japanese karate and K-1 fighter. Pretty weird.
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Month: November 2010
In October, for the first time ever in Japan, more smartphones were sold than keitais (“traditional” Japanese cell phones). It seems like the Galapagos Syndrome is starting to hit really hard Japanese cell phone manufacturers, that have to compete more and more harder with smartphones developed in the United States and South Korea. The number one cell phone in Japan right now is the Samsung Galaxy, followed by the iPhone 4 with 32 and 16 Gb.
- 1.- Samsung Galaxy S NTT DoCoMo (Android)
- 2.- Apple iPhone 4 (32GB) Softbank
- 3.- Apple iPhone 4 (16GB) NTT DoCoMo
- 4.- Panasonic P-07B NTT DoCoMo
- 5.- Sharp IS01 KDDI au (Android)
- 6.- Sony Ericsson Xperia SO-01B NTT DoCoMo (Android)
- 7.- Kyocera Kantan Keitai K004 KDDI au
- 8.- Hitachi beskey KDDI au
- 9.- Fujitsu Raku-Raku Basic 2 NTT DoCoMo
- 10.- Fujitsu F-08B NTT DoCoMo
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More robots with human-like gestures
When I posted about the Singing Robot developed by AIST Institute in Japan, I got an e-mail from Miguel Michán telling me about the Actroid-F, another robot from the same lab.
I have also been reading about the latest developments of the Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories and it seems like they have ready a new version of their Geminoid robot. This new version, when finished, will be used as an actress in a Japanese TV show.