Fujitsu unveils smartphone that checks users’ pulse by scanning their face
Japanese electronics giant Fujitsu unveiled new smartphone technology on Monday that determine the pulse of a user just by looking at their face. While the technology isn’t tied to a specific device...
View ArticleJapan’s Olympus to exit point-and-shoot camera market
The ubiquity of the photo-sharing app Instagram – whose potential convinced Mark Zuckerberg and company to purchase the start-up for 1 billion US dollars – is reflected in the fact that it’s monthly...
View ArticleTeacher admits to installing surveillance camera in girls’ bathroom
A teacher from an elementary school in the Kusatsushi area in Shiga Prefecture has admitted to installing a camera in the girls’ bathroom after the device was discovered by one of the students. He...
View ArticleJapanese researchers invent visor to block facial recognition algorithms
With privacy becoming a hot button topic because of recent NSA revelations and the potential of devices like Google Glass to invade personal space, Japanese researchers claim to have come up with a way...
View ArticleNikon looks to smartphone market for growth, admits compact cameras on decline
Japan-based Nikon Corp. – a global name in cameras – is currently looking to move its business and proficiencies into the booming smartphone as market compact camera sales slump and may well lead to...
View ArticleFujiFilm expands in the Philippines, series of Japanese companies to follow
As the economic outlook continues to brighten in the Philippines, Japan-based Fujifilm Corp. is the latest of a series of Japanese companies bringing their manufacturing operations to the Southeast...
View ArticleTokyo ‘gigapixel’ panorama is world’s 2nd largest photograph
In September 2012, Jeffrey Martin – a photographer from London-based news organization The Guardian – shot over 10,000 pictures of
View ArticleTokyo taxis offer high-tech solution for left-behind items
One thing taxi drivers hate to find are forgotten items passengers have mistakenly left in the back seat. But Kokusai Motorcars Co., a taxi operator based in Tokyo, wants to make sure that no one...
View ArticleSleazy picture-taking incidents on the rise in Japan due to better camera...
Japanese police, local governments and citizens groups are seemingly fighting a losing battle in trying to prevent voyeurs and peeping toms from taking their stolen pictures because of the...
View ArticleJapanese netizens react against Iwate Prefecture’s measures against illegal...
Japanese netizens have made their displeasure known over a recent law proposal in the northern prefecture of Iwate to criminalize just “pointing” a cell phone towards someone if suspected that the...
View ArticleJapanese researchers create ‘privacy glasses’ to protect image and identity
As technology continually evolves into becoming more personalized and invasive, the issue of privacy becomes paramount for a lot of consumers. To protect you from strangers capturing your image on the...
View ArticleSony to increase market share in India to make it bigger than Japan
Sony is targeting India to be its third biggest market for their newly launched smartphone Xperia devices in the country, which currently ranks as fourth overall for the company after China, US and...
View ArticleCanon prepares to move production back to Japan, shift to automation
Japanese imaging and optical equipment maker Canon plans to return 50% of its production on-shore by the year 2015. Chairman and CEO Fujio Mitarai cited the weak yen and expenses of manufacturing...
View ArticleSony planning to cut its Vaio PC business to focus on smartphones
Reports are saying that Japanese tech company Sony Corp is in talks to sell its Vaio personal computer business, as this division has been incurring continuous loss for them. This apparent move is also...
View ArticleTokyo’s Metropolitan Police, 4 other prefectures deploy facial recognition...
The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) of Tokyo and police forces from four other prefectures have now deployed a facial recognition system where a high-definition video camera can instantly...
View ArticleLeica gives $12,000 camera to earthquake-tsunami survivor, gets mixed...
Three years after the Tohoku region in Japan was hit by a triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear reactor meltdown, many nations and companies continue to give help and support to the...
View ArticleJapanese security outfit develops security camera that is also… a motorcycle?
Japan Security System Co., a Japanese security outfit with a less than imaginative name, wanted to develop a new high-definition security camera for use with their clients. The problem – or wonderful...
View ArticleJapanese camera manufacturers doing best to fight off smartphone threat
With their businesses threatened by the growing popularity and ubiquity of smartphones, Japan’s major camera producers are now doing the best they can to fend off the threat by ramping up the...
View ArticleJapanese scientist develops technology to manipulate 3-D images
A Japanese scientist has recently developed technology – which includes a high-speed camera and special glasses – that will allow users to manipulate and work with computer-generated 3-D virtual...
View ArticlePhoto taken of imperial couple at train station & posted to Twitter, mixed...
Smartphone camera photos of Japan’s imperial couple – Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko – being posted on Twitter and going veritably viral shows the collision of Japan’s traditional culture with...
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