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Pink Tentacle
Interesting blog covering a lot of different topics - 2
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Nanocores
And you thought normal carbon nanotubes were good - 5
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Silkworms as protein source for Martian settlers
Mmmm, tasty! - 7
Japanese glow-in-the-dark mushrooms
Putting the 'fun' into fungi - 8
Petaflops-level supercomputer to be unveiled
Pink Tentacle has the full shizzle on the Japanese petaflop computer project, to be unleashed later this month. - 9
Super-sharp lasers to boost disc capacity tenfold
Does what it says on the tin. - 10
Image of Raijin (God of Thunder) appears in rice field
And us Brits get proud of our crop-glyphs...looks like the Japanese (as always) have us nailed on technical expertise, not to mention scale. - 11
Japanese Turtle Invasion!
Japanese authorites are dealing harshly with a recent incursion-wave of rogue turtles. Weird, but true. - 12
Giant interactive squid robot in the works
Japanese city plans giant robotic squid to celebrate their favourite sea-beasties. - 13
Geminoid doesn't like his face being touched...
Watch videos of a body-double android controlled via telepresence by the Japanese scientist it resembles...finally, we're getting near to the robots they promised us in the 70s. Even if they are a bit - 14
Device uses waves to “print” on water surface
Wave generators make the shapes of letters in water...soJohn Keats may indeed one day have 'his name writ in water' after all. - 15
Mutant tomato harvested in Kyoto
Does what it says on the tin - a tomato with a face (though it's not Jesus). Today's 'dead donkey story', but featuring a member of the vegetable kingdom. - 16
Fingerprint sensor in your wallet
Biometric tech is looking smaller, thinner nad more effective all the time. Odds are good it'll still get hacked pretty fast, though. - 17
Japanese railway generates electricity from passengers
Well, you might as well claw something back from the customers, eh? Seriously, this is a good plan, we need more ideas like this. - 18
Virtual piano turns any surface into a keyboard
Does what it says on the tin...little laser unit draws a piano keyboard on a surface, and you play by touching within the lines of light. No aftertouch or velocity sensing, I'm guessing - 19
Japanese project promises blue-collar bots for aging society
If there aren't enough young people to look after the elderly, who the hell is going to build these robots, exactly? - 20
Mind-controlled Wheelchair
Does what it says on the tin. - 21
World's smallest dice
"Billed as the smallest dice in the world, each one measures 0.3 x 0.3 x 0.3 mm...". Luke Rheinhart, eat your heart out. - 22
Intelligent robots by 2015, says METI
"Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has set aside over 2 billion yen...to support the development of intelligent robots that rely on their own decision-making skills in the wo - 23
“I” robot: train station employee of the future
"East Japan Railway Company has become the world’s first railway company to develop a humanoid robot guide." It doesn't perform too well so far, but apparently gets by on charm - punters fin - 24
Micromotor harnesses the power of bacteria
"Researchers from Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have developed a micromotor powered by the movement of bacteria." That is just unbelievably - 25
Pimp my Dream Tanker
"Comedian-turned-painter Jimmy Onishi and 40 elementary school students have designed monster-sized psychedelic murals for the ship’s spherical tanks...large enough to cover 100 buses." Blim - 26
EMIEW robot goes with the (traffic) flow
"To coexist with humans in the real world, robots need to be able to respond to a host of changes that constantly occur in the course of everyday life." And they're working on it - but there - 27
Sega's Robot Pony
"Dreaming of owning a pony, but anxious about taking on the necessary responsibilities? Fret no more, there’s an alternative." A million middle-class parents breathe more easily - 28
Fujitsu develops “invisible” barcode
"FP code consists of a series of faint yellow lines — said to be invisible to the naked eye — which are overlaid on the photograph during the printing process." Object hyperlinking on the sl - 29
Robot beauty goes skin-deep
"...major cosmetics manufacturer Kao Corporation and a Keio University research team led by robotics professor Takashi Maeno have developed an artificial skin that feels just like human skin.&quo - 30
Intelligent wheelchair sees all
"...an intelligent wheelchair that relies on an omnidirectional camera for a view of its surroundings, avoids collisions with people and obstacles, and knows when something is wrong with the chai