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Japanese Technology from the Future Friday [via Akihabara News]

Jun 082013

THIS WEEK’S DISPATCH: Japan continues international outreach with nuclear-friendly French (outreach began with Turkey and the UAE), and sad news for hippies: a UN science committee has found no increased risk of cancer due to the Fukushima accident.

June 8, 2013 Posted by anthrobotic at 12:42 AM AkihabaraNews.com, 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」, News, Nuclear Stuff, Shameful Self-Promotion, Shameless Self-Promotion, Technology, Technology & Environmentalism, Technology & Politics

Japanese Technology from the Future Friday [via Akihabara News]

Jun 012013

THIS WEEK’S DISPATCH: NHK is showing off touchable TV and ultra-res TV cameras that are just bananas, Japan’s got super-duper malaria vaccine (giveth to Africa), and Japan’s hunting rare earth in Malawi (taketh from Africa).

June 1, 2013 Posted by anthrobotic at 1:48 AM AkihabaraNews.com, Asia, Here First or Best Here, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japanese Technology from the Future Friday, Japan「日本」, Pure Science, Shameful Self-Promotion, Shameless Self-Promotion, Technology, Technology & Healthcare, Technology & Politics, TV

Japanese Technology from the Future Friday – Now With Akihabara News Cross-Publication

May 042013

THIS WEEK’S DISPATCH: Anthrobotic teams up with Akihabara News to feed the JTFF, now an Akihabara News feature, back to Anthrobotic.com, and also a Japanese trailer for Pacific Rim, robots in the context of the global old, and Japan’s selling nuclear tech.

May 4, 2013 Posted by anthrobotic at 1:27 AM Aging Society, AkihabaraNews.com, CareBots, Energy Technology, Here First or Best Here, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japanese Technology from the Future Friday, Japan「日本」, Medical Robots, Medical Technology, Military Robotics, Nuclear Stuff, Robot, Shameful Self-Promotion, Shameless Self-Promotion, Technology, Technology & Entertainment, Technology & Politics

Japanese Industrial Robotics: Here’s How Robots Don’t Kill an Economy

Apr 082013

A plurality of the world’s industrial robots are located in Japan – robots replaced a human labor force and then the humans got different, better, safer jobs, and all the anti-robot naysaying economists from the 60s & 70s got season passes to the All-Crow Buffet in heaven.

April 8, 2013 Posted by anthrobotic at 8:32 PM Aging Society, AkihabaraNews.com, Asia, General Motors, Industrial Robots, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japan「日本」, Robot, Technology, Technology & Politics, Technology & Work

Japanese Technology from the Future Friday (THE RETURN!)

Jan 112013

Today’s Dispatch: JTTF Returns! We got Japanese dudes (allegedly) keeping hold of their dumbphones for nefariousness, and more economic stimulus for Japan which will totally work long as they don’t spend it in a Japanese way (the Sony metaphor returns).

January 11, 2013 Posted by anthrobotic at 10:25 PM Apple, Here First or Best Here, iPhone 5, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japanese Technology from the Future Friday, Japan「日本」, Mobile, Smartphone, Sony, Technology, Technology & Culture, Technology & Politics

Google’s 100,000 Stars & the Paradigmatic Disruption of Large-Scale Innovation Revisited

Nov 202012

Google’s built a beautiful galactic simulation. Go look at it. Oh, and private companies doing stuff like this, but on grand scales – is this the future of big, bold science?

November 20, 2012 Posted by anthrobotic at 12:10 PM Astronomy, Astrophysics, Carl Sagan, Cosmology, Google, Internet, Internet Stuff, Multimedia, NASA, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Physics, Private Space Race, Pure Science, Space Technology, Technology, Technology & Politics

iPhone 5 Hyper-Anticipation: It Didn’t Mean What You Think it Meant (AGAIN)

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 Posted by anthrobotic at 2:51 PM Apple, Curiosity, Cybernetics, Here First or Best Here, Internet, Internet Stuff, iPhone 5, Mobile, Smartphone, Technology, Technology & Culture, Technology & Politics, U.S.A.

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