BREAKING NEWS: Anthrobotic.com Releases Technosnark Virus into Mainstream Media

Mar 302013
 
BREAKING NEWS: Anthrobotic.com Releases Technosnark Virus into Mainstream Media

The technology dork in charge at Anthrobotic.com has infected yet another online news source: Japan Today’s beautifully made INSIGHT MAGAZINE. If you’ve got an iPad, subscribe! If you don’t have an iPad, get an iPad – then subscribe!

 March 30, 2013  Posted by at 1:25 AM Activelink Power Loader, AkihabaraNews.com, Asia, Bionic, CareBots, Cyberdyne, Cybernetics, DARPA, DARPA Robotics Challenge, HAL Suit, Human Augmentation, iRobot, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japan「日本」, Nuclear Stuff, Robot, Shameful Self-Promotion, Shameless Self-Promotion, Technology, Technology & Environmentalism, WarBots

Robots for Japan: talk with them, move with them, live with them… All in time.

Mar 222013
 
Robots for Japan: talk with them, move with them, live with them... All in time.

Japan’s going to be running out of people, and apparently a lot of the kids these days just don’t wanna, you know, do it. So, naturally – robots, yo.

 March 22, 2013  Posted by at 10:06 AM Aging Society, AkihabaraNews.com, Asia, Bionic, CareBots, Exoskeleton, HAL Suit, Human Augmentation, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japan「日本」, Medical Robots, Medical Technology, Prosthetics, Robot, Technology, Technology & Disability, Technology & Labor

An Upside to Fukushima: Japan’s Robot Renaissance

Mar 152013
 
An Upside to Fukushima: Japan’s Robot Renaissance

This piece is not a memorial, but hopefully a brief insight into how a terrible natural disaster has invigorated Japan’s robotics industry and brought to light a problem affecting all industrialized societies.

 March 15, 2013  Posted by at 9:52 PM Activelink Power Loader, Asia, CareBots, Cyberdyne, DARPA, DARPA Robotics Challenge, Energy Technology, Exoskeleton, HAL Suit, Industrial Robots, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japan「日本」, Nuclear Stuff, Robot, Technology, Technology & Environmentalism

Japanese Technology from the Future Friday!

Feb 152013
 
Japanese Technology from the Future Friday!

Today’s Dispatch: The Japanese “Smart Cities” initiative ramps up, a robot that shoots dry ice to clean up radiation, and a Japanese powder that cleans water in Tanzania (that last bit doubles as an opportunity to deride hippies, too – value added!).

 February 15, 2013  Posted by at 11:41 PM Asia, Energy Technology, Environmental Technology, Green Energy Technology, Here First or Best Here, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japanese Technology from the Future Friday, Japan「日本」, Robot, Technology, Technology & Environmentalism

Japanese Technology from the Future Friday!

Jan 182013
 
Japanese Technology from the Future Friday!

Today’s Dispatch: Heavy metals from Japan might be monkeywreching the Dreamliner, some heavy metals were found in Jamaica by some Japanese guys, heavy metals irking Japan’s anti-nuclear hippies, and once again, Sony gets hit with some technosnark.

 January 18, 2013  Posted by at 11:25 PM Asia, Energy Technology, Environmental Technology, Green Energy Technology, Here First or Best Here, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japanese Technology from the Future Friday, Japan「日本」, Nuclear Stuff, Sony, Technology, Technology & Environmentalism

TERMINAL ANACHRONISM: The Swan Song of the Public Pay Phone

Oct 142012
 
TERMINAL ANACHRONISM: The Swan Song of the Public Pay Phone

Public phones are disappearing in the U.S., and here in Japan where they remain ubiquitous but are effectively scenery, no one even cares enough to vandalize them. They’re a TERMINAL ANACHRONISM!

 October 14, 2012  Posted by at 10:38 PM Asia, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japan「日本」, Mobile, Smartphone, Technology, Technology & Culture, Technology & Travel, Terminal Anachronism
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