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/ 16 September 2005
Nintendo thinks it has the answer for people scared off by all the complex switches and buttons on home video-game controllers — a simpler device that looks like a TV remote control and can be waved like a wand — or a baseball bat. The Japanese game maker showed the gadget planned for its next-generation home machine called Revolution at the Tokyo Game Show outside Tokyo on Friday.
At a forest shrine lined with incense-burning urns, Japanese pilgrims enter a small cave where they stoop to wash coins and notes in trickling spring water. Cleanse your money here, the tradition goes, and it will multiply. The ritual dates back perhaps 700 years, and it says something about the Japanese view of money: an attitude far different from that of many Americans.
A senior Boeing official on Wednesday brushed off the threat of European rival Airbus SAS’s ”superjumbo,” saying orders for Boeing’s smaller, more fuel-efficient Dreamliner were robust. Boeing vice president Wade Cornelius said the Airbus A380 requires heavy investment but would likely command only a small market.
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/ 31 January 2005
Tired of pushing all those buttons on your cellphone? Japanese handsets slated to hit stores next month are designed to solve that problem: they respond to shakes, tilts and jiggles. The cellphones come equipped with a tiny motion-control sensor, a computer chip that recognises and responds to movement.
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/ 20 January 2005
Sony missed out on potential sales from MP3 players and other gadgets based on widespread formats because it was overly proprietary about music and entertainment content, the head of Sony’s video-game unit acknowledged on Thursday.
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/ 19 January 2005
Supporters of chess master Bobby Fischer petitioned a Japanese court on Wednesday to free him immediately and let him go to Iceland where he’s been granted residency rather than deport him to the United States where he’s a wanted man.
The text on Sony’s new Librie electronic book reader doesn’t quite equal ink on a page in clarity, but it comes remarkably close. It’s easier on the eyes than any electronic display yet. The Librie is the first major consumer product to feature a long-in-the-works display technology that is designed to replace printed words on paper — so-called electronic ink.
If you’re the kind of person who spends hours on build-it-yourself radio-controlled models, you’ll love the Robovie-M walking robot. For the rest of us, well, it seems like more of a chore. I thought robots were supposed to be labour-saving devices. Not this one.