Nana-chan of Nagoya is promoting Evangelion today.
2021-03-30
2021-02-13
Raspberry Pi Pico
Raspberry Pi Pico, joining my family of 4 Raspberry Pi at home. It's a $4 IoT board with CPU, GPU, and board designed in the UK.
2020-08-14
2020-08-06
Dragonball edible mascot in Japan
Dragonball 🐉 edible mascot, 食べマス ("TEBERARERU MASCOT"), sold in Famimart convenient store today(2020-08-06).
2020-06-02
AR glasses I actually wore
I put pics of myself wearing AR glasses or smartglasses over the years(skipping 7 pics I shouldn't show in public due to work). Feel free to comment or like. If you are in the AR space, get in touch. Let's do something wonderful. https://photos.app.goo.gl/QyV54o7woxpgJcUM8
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#AR #smartglasses #japan #MR #XR #VR #augmentedreality #virtualreality #mixedreality #magicleap #snapchat #spectacles #AceReal #hololens #hololens2 #nreal #nreallight #realwear #everysight #raptor #vuzix #oculus #psvr #sony3Dglasses #googleglass #appleglass #appleglasses #applear
Bill Hung, Japan, 2020-06-03
2020-01-31
2019-09-29
Google Nest - smart home device
First time hands-on with a Google Nest at Bic Camera. It's selling for 14,000 yen
2019-08-20
2019-06-02
First phone with display fingerprint lock for Japan market: Oppo R17
Just tried the first display-fingerprint-unlock phone fpr Japan market: Oppo R17 selling at 36100 yen.
Only the bottom bit with fingerprint icon can unlock the phone. Feels responsive, I can get used to that. No more weirdly placed fingerprint sensor.
2019-05-31
2019-04-30
End of Heisei era: Google.com
Google.com, today.
Less than one hour till the end of 30+ years of Heisei era.
(I wonder if that page peels off once count down is over)
2019-04-12
2019-03-20
2019-03-19
Old Hololens 1 pic when Hololens 2 was announced
Microsoft's Hololens 2 was just announced a week ago, and here is a picture of me wearing the original Hololens on 2017-01-19, which is the very beginning of commercial purchase of Hololens 1. Hopefully the launch of Hololens 2 is faster and smoother.
2017-10-29
Windows Mixed Reality
First time to try Windows Mixed Reality with Acer MR headset. I really liked it.
2017-08-08
YouTube New Way to Share
A more Snapchat like sharing started today on YouTube for the US only.
(Europe or Asia account didn't work)
2017-08-04
Tesla laid down the gauntlet next to Toyota
When American Tesla laid down the gauntlet at Nagoya Station next to Toyota with Tesla X.
2017-06-17
2016-12-18
Rilakkuma Boogie Board
My first @BoogieBoard with #Rilakkuma
Love the LCD display (USA made), which is pressure sensitive. Other parts are China-made. Office in the UK by a company called King Kim. Patent filed, with big or small sizes.
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2016-10-16
New ICQ is better than Snapchat
Basically the new ICQ has all the features of Snapchat and more. Plus it uses your phone number as well as the traditional ICQ number.
2016-09-20
Huawei P9 dual camera phone
The dual 12MP Huawei P9 looks very good with Leica lens. Unlike iPhone with telescopic focal length, or LG with wide-angle selfie. Huawei opted for one camera doing monochrone pictures.
http://m.gsmarena.com/huawei_p9-7972.php
2016-06-24
News on Facebook Live
Now I can watch #Brexit #EUref news with Facebook live. So many people expressed their emotions.
2016-03-17
Lyft, the Uber alternative
Takes android pay, paypal, and credit card. You get 50 dollars coupon to be used over 10 times
2016-03-16
Amazon Echo
at the amazon store in San Francisco. I got to try the Amazon Echo and the voice purchasing for the first time. The price was almost US$200
2015-12-14
Star Wars BB-8 robot
I tried the Star Wars BB-8 robot at Apple store. It rolls around and shows holographic video message in Augmented Reality.
2015-12-09
2015-11-22
2015-11-14
2015-10-09
2015-06-09
2015-06-02
Intel buys Altera for $17 billion
When I joined Xilinx, never had thought the FPGA competitor Altera is worth $17 billion
2015-04-16
2015-04-03
British Blood Pressure Monitor
Designed in London. Kinetik blood pressure monitor that measures from your wrist. It saves the last 60 readings, and is smaller than the Omron ones. Only £18 from ASDA. Gotta support British medical innovations.
2014-12-14
2014-07-02
2014-06-27
2014-06-26
Google Cardboard
Official google site: https://developers.google.com/cardboard/
2014-05-10
Qanba Q1 Arcade Stick
The Qanba Q1 arcade stick arrived!
This version support all 3 platforms: PC/PS3/360. Cost around £40.
I saw the street fighter community talking about this in the Steam forum, and had good review.
I tested it, and it was perfect.
2014-04-30
Kobo Beyond the Book feature
In Kobo there is the "Beyond the Book" feature. Say, the book mentioned Steve Jobs' wife, and there's a pic of her
2014-04-29
Miiverse Upgrade
At the same time of introducing the much hated 3 Min comment wait, Nintendo is pushing Miiverse to more 'follow devs here'
2014-03-31
Cantonese Wikipedia
Searching for すばる and Pleiades led me to a Cantonese article of 七姊妹星團.
I was quite amazed at the whole Wikipedia UI being in proper Cantonese!
2014-01-29
YY.com, the Chinese twitch.tv
YY.com is making waves in the stock market recently. Looks to be a growing twitch-like service.
2014-01-24
Lenovo buys more of IBM
Buying the PC part was not enough, lenovo is getting the servers too. This is thr company Michael Dell said wouldn't succeed. Dell was #1 and lenovo was #3 at that time. Now lenovo is #1 and Dell is #3. Much changed in these 9 years.
With Michael Dell making Dell private again, it will be interesting to see the next chapter of the sage. (pic via City A.M.)
David Beckham's Chinese Tattoo
David Beckham showed us how Chinese tattoo should be done.
Showing off his
生死乃命 富貴由天
tattoo, at Beijing University in 2013
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