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• CrunchGear visits top robot store Vstone in Akihabara (photo report)

  
  CrunchGear — Authority: 774
  We’ve covered robots from Japan-based robot developer and retail store Vstone a few times in the past . Reason enough for me (I live in Japan) to go and have a good look at Vstone’s flagship store in Akihabara, Tokyo’s electronic district, and make a few pics (the company itself is headquartered in Osaka). ...
  17 hours ago

• LG’s XG1 Chic external hard drive looks just dainty

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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  1 day ago

• Awesome News and Stuff #4

  
  Wakaranai — Authority: 123
  ● A new anime has been announced that has already got me highly interested, and that anime is Senkou no Night Raid [official website]. The reason it caught my attention so quickly is the promising plot synopsis, which shows the anime traverses way outside of the usual anime scope:The story is set in Shanghai [...]
  2 days ago

• alafista.com - A Fusion of Japans Otaku and Popular Culture: Pantsu Displayed High In Akiba Stores

  
  Anime Nano! — Authority: 173
  Akibaos shares with us that some shops in Akihabara are promoting the newly release Sora no Otoshimono 「そらのおとしもの」 DVD by hanging some pantsu high up in their stores. This particular shot was taken in the ...
  3 days ago

• iToos M6HD PMP outputs 1080i without breaking anyones bank

  
  Hobbies Fun & entertainment - fun-entertainment.marc8.com — Authority: 165
  Theres really only two things you need to know about the iToos M6HD PMP , and at the risk of repeating the headline: it can output 1080i via HDMI and its price is pretty hard to argue with. read more
  4 days ago

• Meet The Worlds First Cross-Dressing Maid Cafe [Maid Service]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 804
  Yes, drag maids have come to the Akihabara. Tokyos Akihabara district is the go-to for " Maid Cafes " — cosplay restaurants staffed by ersatz maids, if thats your thing. And if its not, well, youre in luck, because the Akihabara has evolved to include everything from " chubby maid cafes " to Eyeglasses Cafes, ...
  1 week ago

• Japanese Cross-Dressing Cafe

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 522
  The Japanese have a weird trend that’s taken hold.  They call it a maid cafe.  In it, the waitresses all dress in elaborate maid costumes.  It started in Tokyo’s Akihabara district, and the concept proved so popular it’s spread beyond maids to all sorts of other themed stores, all staffed by lovely young ...
  1 week ago

• Japan’s Red Cross uses Augmented Reality to get geeks to donate blood (video)

  
  CrunchGear — Authority: 774
  This is one of the reasons why I live in Japan and nowhere else: In order to get more people to donate blood, the Japanese Red Cross Society decided to skip juice and cookies and to go high-tech by using augmented reality-powered digital signage systems [JP] and cute anime characters. In cooperation with ...
  1 week ago

• Gigantic Tekki 鉄鬼 Blitz In Akiba

  
  alafista.com — Authority: 136
  A cool replica of the Blitz mecha from the game Tekki [鉄鬼] is now being displayed in front of Sumitomo Fudosan Akihabara Building . Source: Akibamap Tekki is a FPS game that plays very similar to Amored Core. Here’s a youtube video of Blitz having some in-game sniping action:
  1 week ago

• AKIHABARA - Manga Mania & Electronic Town - Otaku

  
  Cell Phone Offers — Authority: 173
  Author: richardandersen1 Keywords: Transformers bumble bee tokyo akihabara maid cafee food electronics manga otaku cars machines animation Added: December 20, 2009
  1 week ago

• Loot from Tokyo

  
  Astrobunny's Blog — Authority: 124
  I finally got around to unpacking my suitcase which was completely filled with my figures. Besides the 12 books of doujins I got from the upstairs of Toranoana, one of my favorite shops in Akihabara. I also peered up the many stairwells to find figures that I could not find on online sites that struck my fancy, and I ...
  1 week ago

• Otaku Protests Against Michael Moore’s Brutal Attack on Akihabara

  
  NeoShinka — Authority: 123
  Hit It Baby ! ~ Kick-Ass E06 Online otakus criticized Michael Moore’s Vitriolic comments against our Sacred Shangri-La, Akihabara, The Otakudom Holy City : “A lot of unnecessary things are being sold here.” “Shopping may brighten the spirits, but they’re just fooling themselves.” “I’m not ...
  1 week ago

• Crowded Tokyo trains

  
  Japan Visitor Blog - Tokyo Osaka Nagoya Kyoto — Authority: 429
  満員電車 Tokyos commuter train system is rightly renowned as being one of the most efficient in the world. The frequency of morning trains at rush hour on the JR Sobu line, for example - the one I take daily - is such that you dont run for a train. By the time Ive made it down to the far end of the platform ...
  1 week ago

• Michael Moore Not So Impressed With Akihabara [Hollywood]

  
  Kotaku — Authority: 808
  Its Tokyos geek mecca — Akihabara. Games shops, arcades, manga, anime, figurines and maid cafes. You name it, they just might have it. A Japanese TV program gave filmmaker Michael Moore a tour. The above image has a Japanese subtitle of the director offering this insight: "Lots of unnecessary things are being ...
  2 weeks ago

• Michael Moore on Akihabara

  
  Sankaku Complex — Authority: 553
  Comedy fat man and leftist documentary maker Michael Moore has paid a visit to Akihabara, with the town leaving a distinctly unfavourable impression on him it seems. Above he dispenses the first of his sage observations: “A lot of unnecessary things are being sold here.” Other choice quotes : “Shopping ...
  2 weeks ago

• LG RoboKing adds second camera, seeks to escape Roomba shadow

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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  2 weeks ago

• CrunchGear visits Thanko’s new USB flagship store in Akihabara (photo report)

  
  CrunchGear — Authority: 774
  USB-powered neckties , slippers , boob warmers , spy button cameras and tons of other ludicrous stuff :  Thanko [JP], Japan’s (and possibly the world’s) most notorious maker of USB gadgets (most of which nobody really needs) never disappoints in the silliness department. The company closed their English ...
  2 weeks ago

• Softmap Promotes Their HDTV Using FF XIII

  
  alafista.com — Authority: 136
  AkibaBlog reports that the Softmap mainstore in Akihabara is using the promotional trailer for the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII to promote their large HDTV sets. As it reads on the top corner of the TV sets, “If you are going to play Final Fantasy XIII, then you should definitely go for the big screen!” ...
  2 weeks ago

• Buffalo outs USB 3.0 ExpressCard adapter, we see a trend coming

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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  3 weeks ago

• Day 4 in Tokyo

  
  Astrobunny's Blog — Authority: 124
  Our main highlight today is Nakano. Actually I came here to see lenses. No seriously! Its not like I got drawn into Patty’s subliminal messaging song with the Nakano Broadway constantly repeating in my head. >.> View from the station. Azusa’s surname is Nakano. So this place must be full of win. ...
  3 weeks ago

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