Month: April 2012

Aibo Smartphone – Bandai's Smartpet

Post author By ageekinjapan
Post date April 4, 2012
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Bandai has just released (only in Japan at the moment) a new accesory to turn your smartphone into some kind of Aibo robot. The name of the gadget is SmartPet (スマートペット) and it’s on sale at Amazon Japan for around 55 euros / 70 dollars. It works combining the gadget with an application developed by Bandai. The Smartpet can dance, walk and you have to feed it once in a while.

Aibophone

Bandai Smartpet TV commercial:

And this is a video that shows in more detail how it works and everything you can do with a Smartpet:

Photography

Ozawa Camera

Post author By ageekinjapan
Post date April 3, 2012

Ozawa Camera is a store in Ebisu that has been selling film cameras for more than 40 years. You can find it right at the exit 3 of Ebisu station (Tokyo Metro). They only sell film cameras and second hand lenses. It is the place where I go when I have to develop photos that I have taken with a Hasselblad or with my Kenko.

Society

Japan Airlines President Routine

Post author By ageekinjapan
Post date April 1, 2012
4 Comments on Japan Airlines President Routine

Japan Airlines (JAL) is one of the top 10 airlines in the world by passengers. Although Japan Airlines has a lot of clients, the company is having a lot of financial troubles and in 2010 they declared bankruptcy.

Japan Airlines is the largest company in Japan, however its CEO since 2007 Haruka Nishimatsu commutes to work by bus every day and earns less money than any pilot at his company. He earns around 80,000 euros/100,000 dollars per year, he eats in the company restaurant with other employees and works in an open space with the rest of his team. On the other hand, the president of Lehman Brothers Japan used to commute by helicopter to get to his Roppongi Hills office until the company went bankrupt and sunk the world economy along with it.

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