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more about #kddi more comments → Jonathan Hamilton: Nice Hudsucker Proxy reference. #mamorino more » GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday: I have sugestted this over on Consumerist, and I will suggest it here. Fainting Goats were bred so that when a predator attacked a flock, their muscl... more » feezy23: Wow it even has 3 numbers... #mamorino more » Kaiser-Machead: Is this really better than the anti-pedo Kung Fu midget decoy? #mamorino more » iElvis: If I'm going to be running my phone on methanol, I want to be able to add headers, new cams, a bigger manifold, and maybe a blower if anyone's making ... more » betterdays: So the thing produces water and... carbon dioxyde ? how smart, just when we're trying to reduce it in engine combustion... Wrong good idea. more » Logan5: Looks like a little toilet. more » GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday: So we are going to squirt a liquid which is more volatile than gasoline, and also corrosive, into a device with Li-Ion batteries which are known to ov... more » PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: I just don't see this catching on because you manually have to add a liquid to your gadgets whenever they are out of juice. more » reddingofish: I want to know how it got from the coffee table to the kitchen table. more » Kaiser-Machead: Rolly 2.0 looks like a damn anti-escape orb. We're boned. more » fuchikoma: Is a Wi-Fi card that size even large enough to have an antenna effective for the wavelength? Wolfram Alpha says the wavelength is about 12cm for 2.4GH... more » RemembertheAmiga: If Verizon gets religion and starts including WiFi in more (all?) their data devices the I would agree that this wouldn't seem too useful in cellphone... more » PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: Although I understand that Murphy's law predicts continually increasing storage and a continual decrease in size of the storage medium, I do think the... more » fleebailey33: One time working at compusa, A guy came in and bought a computer, He was very blunt and stated he just wanted to watch porn on a computer that his wif... more » -
#cellphones
Mamorino Anti-Kidnapping Phone, You Know, For Kids
This kids-friendly KDDI's cellphone keeps children safe from kidnapping, with a built-in GPS, and a ring that gets laser-soldered to their noses. I mean, I guess—otherwise, how can you prevent kidnappers from tossing the cellphone away? [Dvice] -
#fuelcells
Video: Toshiba's Latest Fuel Cell Prototype Gadgets Charge in Seconds
At Japan's CEATEC show, Toshiba and KDDI are demonstrating a modified Toshiba T002 phone that's powered by a direct-methanol fuel cell (DMFC) and Li-Ion battery. More advanced than previous prototypes, it runs for 320 hours on a squirt of methanol. More » -
#robots
KDDI Iida Polaris Puts Phone Inside Robot, Annoyingly Follows You Around
Leave it to a Japanese cell phone carrier to figure out a way to breed robots and cell phones. KDDI's iida Polaris is a rolling robot with a touchscreen candybar phone inside that can keep your life in order. More » -
#kddi
Wi-Fi MicroSD Card Makes Eye-Fi Look Obese
Japanese phone king KDDI is showing off a MicroSD card with built-in Wi-Fi, sorta like those photo-uploading Eye-Fi cards everyone loves so much. Actually, they're exactly like that, except, well, much smaller. More » -
#japan
Japan's Unlimited 3G Data Plans Are Being Overwhelmed by Pornhounds
Apparently, Japanese carriers KDDI and DoCoMo are being totally overwhelmed by porn downloaders on their 3G networks. I don't know what they expected to happen when porn services started offering movies for wireless download. More » -
#transportation
Japan's Bullet Trains to Get Wi-Fi
Starting this week, Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains will feature wireless LAN from Tokyo to Osaka. More » -
#cellphones
Sony Ericsson's Premier 3 Walkman Phone Rips Directly From CDs via 3.5mm Jack
If you can get past the hot pink, Sony Ericsson's Premier 3 Walkman phone has a really cool look. Plus it has some interesting features—including the ability to rip music directly from a CD. -
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#cellphones
Tiny, Adorable Walkman Phone Is Hard To Use Unless You're Also Tiny and Adorable
By the numbers, the KDDI Walkman Xmini phone is nothing special. Well, except for a few of the numbers: at 44mm wide and 18mm thick, the 1.8in screen phone is absolutely minuscule. More » -
#cellphones
Japan's Finest: KDDI Fall Winter Cellphone Line
Proving again that Japan has the prettiest phones in the world, au by KDDI has released its Fall and Winter lines, showing off eight new models with emphases on super bright and big Organic EL screens, multimedia “au BOX” connectivity, and a funky mobile personal trainer and calorie counter called “Karada Manager.” While we will probably never see these gadgets States-side, because AU makes some of the gnarliest Japan handsets around, I can't stop myself from obsessing over them. Perhaps I've got a case of unrequited mobile love. More » -
#epaperdisplays
KDDI Develops Color, Wireless, E-Paper Display
As though the flood of WTF-type phone concepts weren't enough, KDDI revealed a proof of concept for a wireless, color, e-paper display they have in the works. The idea is that a cellphone would be used to broadcast a signal to the display via infrared. The 13.1-inch display can display up to 4,096 colors and refresh the onscreen image in 12 seconds. KDDI says the display is intended for the finance and insurance industries, where the need to view A4-sized documents are apparently key. [Tech-On] More » -
#concepts
KDDI's Concept Cellphone is Half Transformer, Half Musical Box
The KDDI AU Design Project bunch over in Japan have stumped up with this latest concept phone for music cellphones of the future. And it blends two things we like a Giz: funky cellphone tech and Transformers. In fact Box To Play is less "robot in disguise," and more "hi-fi in disguise" because when it's a phone, it's a normal phone—keypad, camera and such—but when it transforms it's its own speaker system with a graphical visualizer around its faces. Neat, and exactly the sort of innovative design I'd like to see in future phones. Check out the movie of the concept in action at the KDDI link. [KDDI AU] -
#concepts
Japan's Ply Concept a Multilayered Fantasy Phone
This phone, inspired by the multiple layers of wooden sandwich in plywood, is of multiple slider design. Inside, and separated by tabs, are a printer, projector, gamepad and sliding downward, a dialpad. It's as cool as it is impossible to build, and so KDDI labs should feel proud for making an imaginary device with so much character. [KDDI via Cscout]
