Sony develops compact skin analyzer using camera image sensor
Sony Corp. has unveiled a new type of image-capturing sensor that can be used to analyze a person’s skin conditions.
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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