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Personal Mobility

Honda unveiled a newly developed personal mobile tool, U3-X. It is reportedly said that U3-X is designed not to exceed 6km/hr as a maximum speed per hour and has capability to go up and down on a slop for pedestrians in offices or hospitals. Seeing is believing... 9/25/09

Braille device

There are many companies that focus on assisting people in enhancing quality of life. KGS Corporation founded in 1953 keeps developing and suppying new ideas of products for visually impaired persons. Braille Memo, BM16, as an example, looks an excellent device of portable notebook with which a user can take a memo at anyplace anytime. According to the product description, it equips convenient accessories functions such as a clock, an electronic calculator and a calendar that enable a user to manage indispensable information on daily basis. Electrical communications interface of BM16 is reportedly limited to RS232C. More compact and handy type of Braille Memo Pocket seems to be available now, and it has USB and Bluetooth interfaces, so that wireless communications capability is obviously available between the pocket sized Braille memo device and a personal computer. This type of devices are not showy but very important technology products to help us improve our lives in the so...

Video Presentation on Japanese Technologies

There are a few good sites that well summarize a trend of Japanese science and technologies in English. This video site created by National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology ( AIST ) is one of the good ones. Its URL is http://www.aist.go.jp/aist_e/video/ . More sites would be expected to be provided by many other organizations maintaining at least this level of quality in English. 3/5/09

Lithium-ion Battery Powered Vehicle

According to the spillover's specification sheet, it runs 100km  (assuming at a constant speed rate of 30km/h) once the  lithium-ion battery is charged from the regular power supply  of 100VAC, whilst one time of charging takes 6 to 8 hours. Its  weight and length are 360kg and 2.48 meters respectively. Source: DigInfo via YouTube 2/9/09

A Trend of MEMS Technology

A micro-3-axis- MEMS touch sensor jointly developed by Tokyo University and Panasonic received an award of "Robot of the year 2008" announced by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The MEMS chips enable robotic fingers to sense a very small amount of vertical and horizontal pressure values, as well as shearing forces of material. Source: DigInfo News via YouTube 2/4/09

Arichitectural Shutters

The architectural shutters presented by this YouTube video look like not just shutters but well designed architectural exteriors.   All the other products, Sugatsune Kogyo , the shutter supplier, seem to be more than mechanical components, just like high precision materials. 12/01/08