The ClearCard is totally doable! Just need to buy Randi Altschul’s 1999 patent for the disposable card phone. Hey, high-rolling investors – who wants some of this?!
Oct 212012
Oct 142012
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!
Sep 202012
Sometimes the iPhone deserves the love it gets, and Microsoft Photosynth and Autodesk’s 123D Catch Apps are reasons why. Oh, and this phone-based 3D modeling thingy probably heralds China’s impending economic collapse and stuff.
Sep 132012
Okay, now – bear with me on this – and check it out: The reason people care so much about the next iPhone is because the American Dream is broken. I shit you not. Details inside!
September 13, 2012
Apple, Curiosity, Cybernetics, Here First or Best Here, Internet, Internet Stuff, iPhone 5, Mobile, Smartphone, Technology, Technology & Culture, Technology & Politics, U.S.A.
Sep 012012
Today’s Dispatch: Japanese technology companies are not doing well. But Apple and Samsung are. Uh-oh.
Mar 162012
Today’s Dispatch: The Japanese Continue Building a Wooly Mammoth with Russians & Krazy Koreans, KDDI has a Ton of Cash for Your Mobile Solutions, and Siri’s Japanese is Kinda 下手くそ!
Mar 102012
Today’s Dispatch: Laser Tsunami Mapping, Advanced Fruit Recognition Technology, and the iPhone, herald of the Smartphone concept, rules mobile sales in Japan (the why is interesting)!