It’s never easy to leave Japan — the friendly people, incredible food, cutting-edge tech, clean streets and efficient public transit network mean we never hesitate when given an opportunity to visit this incredible country. But sadly, our latest adventure has come to an end.
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CP+ Camera & Photo Imaging Show wrap-up
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Japanese camera manufacturer Olympus has just introduced the successor to its SZ-30MR compact shooter. The new snapper not only sees a minimal increment on its stage name, SZ-31MR, but it also keeps the same 16-megapixel backlit sensor as its predecessor , as well as an identical 24x (25-600mm) optical zoom.
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Olympus unveils SZ-31MR camera: 16 megapixels, 24x optical zoom
Thirty six megapixels. That’s the native resolution of Nikon’s long-awaited FX-format digital SLR. The D800 was designed with all professional photographers in mind, but with 36.3-megapixel captures (yes, that also means 36.3 megapixels in RAW, or 15.4 in DX format), the Japanese camera maker’s latest DSLR output is likely to far exceed the needs of many. It also limits low-light shooting capabilities — the D800 is a full-frame camera, but even so, with a standard sensor capturing 36.3 megapixels, its high-ISO performance is unlikely to match the likes of the D4 , or Canon’s new 1D X
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Nikon confirms 36.3 megapixel D800, we go hands-on
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Asian shares were mixed in cautious trade Wednesday amid weaker-than-expected US economic data, slumping Japanese corporate earnings and ongoing uncertainty over Europe’s debt crisis.
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Asian markets mixed as US data, Europe fears weigh
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(Reuters) – NTT DoCoMo Inc will ask Google Inc to modify its Android operating system so that smartphones using it would put less pressure on networks, a move that could spark wider protests against the leading mobile software platform, the Nikkei reported. The leading Japanese mobile phone service provider identified an Android application, which enables free-of-charge voice communication, as a major cause behind a service disruption that occurred on Wednesday, the business daily said. Some Android applications send out control signals once every three to five minutes even when not in use.
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DoCoMo to ask for changes in Android -Nikkei
Nintendo Co. sank into losses for the April-December period last year, battered by a price cut for its 3DS handheld, a strong yen that erodes earnings and competition from mobile devices like the iPhone that offer games-on-the-go.
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3DS owners have been waiting (and waiting ) for a chance to take advantage of a downloadable content market, and while Nintendo already accomplished the tough part (read: launching it ) a few days back, there’s still been no word on when paid content would make an appearance. Pushing those freebies aside is Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, which is seemingly destined to be the first 3DS title in existence to offer up enhancements in exchange for a few yen. The box here is actually an “early retail dummy unit,” though the verbiage on the back makes quite clear that downloadable material will be available at a cost. Furthermore, there’s a heretofore unseen Nintendo Network badge on the front, which may be a new look for the existing Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. At any rate, the game is scheduled to ship on February 16th in Japan, after which all of this will-it-won’t-it drama will presumably be cleared up. Theatrhythm Final Fantasy box points to first paid DLC for Nintendo 3DS originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:54:00 EDT
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Theatrhythm Final Fantasy box points to first paid DLC for Nintendo 3DS
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Fujitsu hasn’t been a major player in the mobile race on this side of the pond, but it looks like the company’s working to change that — better late than never, right? Last week we spent some time with its ” world’s thinnest smartphone ,” the F-07D, and now TechFokus claims to have gotten its hands on a Tegra 3 -packing tablet from the Japanese manufacturer that’s supposedly set to launch in May.
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Fujitsu M532 tablet rears head in video, promises Ice Cream Sandwich and Tegra 3?
When we think of Nissan, we think of cars. But now the Japanese company wants us to think of iPhone cases too.
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Nissan unveils world’s first self-healing iPhone case
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Well, well, have a look at what the proverbial internet cat dragged in. The image above comes to you via Japanese forum, giving us a pretty good idea of what is allegedly Fujifilm’s next interchangeable lens camera. Following in the footsteps of the retro-looking X10 and the X100 , not much is known about the shooter’s specs, but we’d venture that it probably isn’t full-frame. Guess it won’t take too long to find out, as the grapevine also muses its proper reveal will happen at CES. Too frothy to wait until then? Well, hop on past the break where we’ve conveniently culled an old mockup for ya.
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New Fujifilm camera pictures leak, shooter scheduled for CES debut?
See that yellow amoeboid slime mold ? It’s up to something. A team of Japanese scientists at Future University Hakodate led by professor Toshiyuki Nakagaki has found evidence that physarum polycephalum — or grape -cluster slime — are capable of navigating mazes and can organize their cells to find the most direct route. Nakagaki and others believe this could be the key to designing bio-computers capable of solving complex problems. According to Nakagaki, the slime’s cells appear to have a kind of information-processing ability that allows them to “optimize” the route along which the mold grows to reach food while avoiding stresses — like light — that may damage them. Over at Kyushu University, researcher Atsushi Tero told the AFP news agency: “Computers are not so good at analysing the best routes that connect many base points because the volume of calculations becomes too large for them
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Slime molds could hold key to new kinds of intelligence, help Statue of Liberty walk
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