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    12/21/09

    In reply to Augmented Reality Used By Red Cross To Target Japanese Nerdlingers
    I have no clue what relation Vocaloid has to donating blood and Miku's standard level of incoherent babbling didn't help any.
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    12/21/09

    In reply to Dead or Alive, You're Learning With Me
    He looks pissed off, probably because he can barely walk. And he doesn't like to be called "Asimo".
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    12/21/09

    In reply to Dead or Alive, You're Learning With Me
    Hello class. I'd like to introduce a new student...
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    12/21/09

    In reply to Dead or Alive, You're Learning With Me
    Ah, I see they finally finished the mock up for Magneto Jr's armor. Looks very nice. Very forward-thinking.
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    12/18/09

    In reply to This Isn't a PC; It's a Really Cool Humidifier
    Add a gigantic spoiler and a 12" subwoofer to wake up the neighbors - in Russia, and this could be the greatest (excuse) riced out - um, humidifier - ever.
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    12/18/09

    In reply to Japanese Baby Simulator Is 1,000 Times Creepier Than a Normal Baby
    What a cute baby-gloworm-thingy.
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    Image of Die Fledermaus Die Fledermaus
    12/18/09

    In reply to Japanese Baby Simulator Is 1,000 Times Creepier Than a Normal Baby
    The first iteration was not nearly as cute.
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    Image of Die Fledermaus Die Fledermaus
    12/18/09

    @Die Fledermaus: This was a fail.
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    Image of Die Fledermaus Die Fledermaus
    12/18/09

    @Die Fledermaus: And this one well it speaks for itself.
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    Image of Canoehead Canoehead
    12/18/09

    In reply to Surprisingly, iPhone Takes Over the Weird Japanese Smartphone Market
    A lot of the Japanese "dumbphones" seem to have a lot of the features we would expect on a smartphone, just with a smaller screen. Still, good for Apple in breaking into a foreign market often hostile to foreign products.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/18/09

    In reply to Japanese Baby Simulator Is 1,000 Times Creepier Than a Normal Baby
    OH I know what to get my little cousin for Christmas, and if I can't get that, I can get this.
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    Image of nystreetfilms nystreetfilms
    12/18/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: kaiser - that is amazing... amazingly scary...

    hey - side note, can you tell me how you embeded video... my google skillz turned up nothing.

    Thanks -

    Rs
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    Kaiser-Machead promoted this comment nystreetfilms was starred nystreetfilms was unstarred
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    12/18/09

    @nystreetfilms: When you open a reply text box, you'll notice a picture and youtube logo, click the youtube logo and paste the site URL in the text box, and the Giz comment system does the rest. Pay no mind to the embed link on the youtube page.

    I think the funniest part is that it has an obviously ostentatious shade of blue eyeliner.
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    Edited by Kaiser-Machead at 12/18/09 12:59 PM Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
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    12/18/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: ahso, yes, easy peasy...

    and yes... the blue eyeliner is retarded scary.
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    Image of Walljasper Walljasper
    12/18/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Like Chuckee in drag.
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    Image of Mr.Affrox Mr.Affrox
    12/18/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: You haven't seen nothing yet...
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    12/18/09

    @Mr.Affrox: LOL I saw that also when I found the other video. Horrendous the things people think of. This dude kills me.
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    Image of Yerzriknot Yerzriknot
    12/18/09

    In reply to Japanese Baby Simulator Is 1,000 Times Creepier Than a Normal Baby
    That's grade A nightmare-fuel right there.
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    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    12/18/09

    In reply to Surprisingly, iPhone Takes Over the Weird Japanese Smartphone Market
    I miss that iMac grrl....
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    Image of aThingOrTwo aThingOrTwo
    12/18/09

    In reply to Surprisingly, iPhone Takes Over the Weird Japanese Smartphone Market
    It was the emoji icons that won it…!
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    12/18/09

    In reply to Surprisingly, iPhone Takes Over the Weird Japanese Smartphone Market
    Wow, never thought it would get this much market share.

    I always thought the iPhone would get some market share because the japanese market is very open to new shiny things (new cameras, Nintendo DSi and DSi LL, etc) plus they do like Apple products.

    I probably wouldn't exchange "weird mobile" features such as video calls, 8.0mpx cameras, 1seg tuners, nfid remote paying, Suica and several others for an iPhone, but I guess lots of people would.
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    Edited by Bokusatsu_Tenshi at 12/18/09 9:58 AM Bokusatsu_Tenshi was starred Bokusatsu_Tenshi was unstarred
    Image of Odin Odin
    12/18/09

    @Bokusatsu_Tenshi:
    Agreed, advanced =/= weird.
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    Image of Kerfudle wants to be ❤'ed Kerfudle wants to be ❤'ed
    12/18/09

    @Odin: ≠ signs aren t hard to make. just type it in...
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    12/18/09

    @Kerfudle wants to be ❤'ed:
    Well as a programmer I'd rather use good ol' != but not everyone gets that one. Oddly enough I never bothered figuring out how to actually type it as a single character. Just typing =/= is easy and quick enough.
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    12/18/09

    @Odin: You can always use the BASIC notation of <

    EDIT: never mind apparently Gizmodo will not let you use a greater than symbol, how odd.
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    Edited by Xeno at 12/18/09 11:34 AM Xeno was starred Xeno was unstarred
    Image of Odin Odin
    12/18/09

    @Xeno: Because less-than greater-tan is tag syntax =P
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    12/18/09

    @Bokusatsu_Tenshi: it's only a matter of time before those features come to Japan's iPhone - they are infrastructural features that are agreed to by various parties like merchant banks, public transport, electronic media as well as hardware vendors. Kinda like London Transport's Oyster Card system or the Europe-wide Chip-and-PIN credit card system, they are not implemented by any one party, but require a lot of behind the scenes negotiations and agreement involving several other parties.
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    Bokusatsu_Tenshi promoted this comment airmanchairman was starred airmanchairman was unstarred
    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    12/18/09

    @airmanchairman: Hopefully, those will come to iPhones all over the world. :D
    But you know, the iPhone as it is now can't have all those features simply because they require extra hardware and other stuff the iPhone 3GS simply doesn't have.
    So, if I was living today in Japan, I still stick to my, of course, personal opinnion of not replacing a japanese cellphone filled with very interesting features for an iPhone, which is really good, but can't beat all those.

    Of course, for all the japanese people who don't care for all those functionalities, the iPhone is a great choice.
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    12/18/09

    In reply to Surprisingly, iPhone Takes Over the Weird Japanese Smartphone Market
    That is surprising.

    Also you can hardly call them weird. Japanese cell phones are some of the most advanced on the planet. Most normal ones boast features that smartphones over here wish they had and a lot have had features for years that are only just making their way into phones here. Foreign cellphones don't do well in Japan because to them what we consider a smartphone is almost a dumbphone over there.

    Hell they can pay for stuff just by waving their phones around now that most of them have NFID. Not to mention they were the first with 3G.
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    Edited by Odin at 12/18/09 9:47 AM Odin was starred Odin was unstarred
    Image of Badongadoodle Badongadoodle
    12/18/09

    @Odin: Give us some examples of their great features and specifications. Because I have seen a TON or foriegn stuff not available here. and they have been mediocre, on shitty screens. So, now I am curious...
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    Odin promoted this comment Badongadoodle was starred Badongadoodle was unstarred
    Image of Deaf Mute Deaf Mute
    12/18/09

    @Badongadoodle: Just Google "Japanese Cell Phones".

    You'll see they are far ahead of us in the West and have been for a long, long, long time.
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    Odin promoted this comment Deaf Mute was starred Deaf Mute was unstarred
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    12/18/09

    @Odin: What's NFID?
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    Odin promoted this comment bigtimes was starred bigtimes was unstarred
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    12/18/09

    @Badongadoodle:
    [www.nytimes.com]

    Western cellphone technology is still playing catch up to Japanese phones. Due to the recession though growth and advancement has slowed over there hence why something like the iPhone has caught up enough to achieve market penetration. It still lacks a lot of features (especially in terms of payment facilities) that a lot of cheaper and older phones will have over there.
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    12/18/09

    @bigtimes:
    It's meant to be RFID - Radio-Frequency Identification but I goofed it without noticing.

    [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Image of The5thElephant The5thElephant
    12/18/09

    @Odin: Supposedly RFID read/write is coming to the next iPhone, I certainly hope so.

    While we may be behind in cell infrastructure technology (as in we don't have vending machines with RFID yet), we are far ahead when it comes to integrating these technologies in a way that people actually use them regularly.

    Western phones have interfaces that actually let you find and figure out functionality, rather than just boast you have it but only use the TV function.
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    Image of macpatrik macpatrik
    12/18/09

    @The5thElephant: I could be pulling this out of my ass, but don't they have 4G phones over there too?
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    Image of CommentingpointlesslyisMeh CommentingpointlesslyisMeh
    12/18/09

    @bigtimes: (RFID) Precisely.
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    Edited by CommentingpointlesslyisMeh at 12/18/09 10:37 AM CommentingpointlesslyisMeh was starred CommentingpointlesslyisMeh was unstarred
    Image of The5thElephant The5thElephant
    12/18/09

    @macpatrik: Yep. This is once again a matter of us being behind on infrastructure. I bet the interface to turn on 4G will be a lot easier to use in Western phones (I kid!).
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    12/16/09

    In reply to Robovie II Helps You Load Up On Beer and Frozen Pizza at the Supermarket
    Why doesn't she get help from those nice men with the cameras?
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