An Android App That Reads Your Brain
KDDI has a prototype Android app that can monitor your brainwaves. You have to wear a silly headband sensor and play…
Flip Phones Made Cool: Japan's Transparent X-Ray Phone
See-through things are cool. Anyone who ever pined for a transparent Game Boy (or was lucky enough to own one) knows…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Motorola Powering Portable Set-Top Box With Android (UPDATED: They're Not)
Motorola is building a generally unremarkable "au Box" portable set-top box for Japanese electronics company KDDI. But…
Japan's Bullet Trains to Get Wi-Fi
Starting this week, Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains will feature wireless LAN from Tokyo to Osaka.
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
KDDI Delivers "World's First 3D Mobile Phone Screen"
The term "word's first" gets thrown around a lot with gadget releases, but with kooky creative phone maker KDDI behind…
Yamaha Trumpet...Cellphone?
Yamaha and KDDI put together a group of concept cellphones with musical themes, including a trumpet, guitar, DJ…
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…
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…
Visual Search Engine Coming to iPhone in June
Evolution Robotics ViPR visual search technology is coming to the iPhone this June. ViPR allows you to take a photo of…
KDDI Japan's Delicious Spring Keitais Look Like Candy
You can't buy cellphones from KDDI unless you live in Japan. You can't even import em and use em here. But clicking…
Japanese Infrared Revamp Transfers at Gigabit Speeds
While IR is still quite useful for certain things, transferring data between devices is something very few people still…