Stylish Surveillance with Panasonic

How do you keep all these precious gadgets secure in your warehouse? When I saw this one first, I thought that‘s a cool lamp for my apartment entrance, but way too expensive (US5200$) just for an interior lamp. The "WV-CW960" from Panasonic System Solutions is a security camera that can be installed outdoor. It zooms up the image up to 300 times and has a digital flip function to follow moving objects. Well, if you have some extra cash you might take it for your next motorhome trip. Appearing on the market from February 1.

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Konami Otoizm - yo-yo with a display?

Wanna new pet, which listens to your favorite music and dances with you? When you connect "Otoizm" (2.2 inch diameter) from Konami to your music player, a character starts to grow according to the genre of music that you listen to. It grows by listening to the music, memorizes phrases, composes and lets you listen to it. If your friend has also one, it‘s time for a dancing session! If you want to have more pets, no worries. Record your girl friend‘s voice, for example, then another character "Kotobaizm" appears and plays with you. It is one of the popular products that I discovered by strolling around at Toy Forum 2006 in Tokyo. To get this pet in your hand, you have to wait till June. It does not even appear on the Konami HP yet.

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Coden Endoscope - Adventure Trip to a Micro World

The president of a Japanese electrical manufacturer wanted to see the inside of his ear while he was cleaning it and asked the product development department to invent sth like that. The result was the Earscope S, that was launched a few years ago with a rather bad resolution though serving the purpose. The product was developed further over the years and the outcome along other endoscope products is the "Earscope GXL", a high–end model for household use with a 7400 pixel image. Through the finder with a dimmable light, you can see the inside of your ear 4 times of the original size. This whole earcleaning trend in Japan went as far as now actual earcleaning parlors are opening around Tokyo with Coden Video Earscopes plugged into a monitor and the customer relaxingly watching his ear being cleaned by professional hand. As for the home model, using the included light guide instead of the earspoon, you can also enter to a adventure world of your car engine, computer, fax machine etc. Price is about US172$.

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Compact Car from Mitsubishi

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Mitsubishi presents the compact car "i" (2WD and 4WD) with a newly developed unique form, a rear mid ship layout (motor is placed front of rear axle). The main selling points of this car are the future like style, light handling, comfortable driving experience and the good safety to collision from the front. The newly developed aluminum DOHC 12 bulb MIVEC inter cooler turbo engine apparentely spits out low exhaust gas. It has a full auto air conditioner with deodorization filter and UV&heat protect glass to produce clean and comfortable interior space. 2 seat colors (red or dark gray) and 8 body colors (one more color will be added in March) are available. Price is between US11168$ to US14097$. Coming on the market from January 24.

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Running Shoes with Michelin Sole

The Japanese sports gear and ware manufacturer Descente presents the running shoes "Pilot Exalt" for beginner to intermediate level runner in three colors with a sole developed with French tire maker Michelin. The combination of high grip of Michelin tires and a suspension system by Descente realize to convey power when running. Appearing in sports shops from the end of January. Price is about US87$

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One-Segment Mobile Phone from Hitachi

One-segment broadcasting is a service that allows watching a segment of terrestrial digital broadcasting program from mobile phones etc. It will start from April 1. Hitachi presents a mobile phone for one-segment broadcasting called "W41H" for the mobile phone provider au. It carries a 2.7 inch LCD display that can be turned out side and folded. This is called "view style" and when it is set on the charging stander, the one-segment TV tuner starts automatically. You can watch for about 3 hours 45 minutes. Maximum recording time is about 30 minutes. With the music function, services from au like "au LISTEN MOBILE SERVICE (LISMO) ", "au Music Player", and "au Music Port" can be used. Play lists can be attached to mail and sent. With a mini SD card, music can be saved. SD-Audio form music files can also be played. It carries 7 kinds of equalizer, stereo ear phone and 2 kinds of equalizer for stereo speaker. Of course it also has a digital camera function (2.07 mega pixel). The size is 4x 53x 27 inch, and the weight is 5.2 oz. Open price.

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A Stylish Cart from Honda

Honda presents a comfortable, compact and high driving stability electric cart. It is mainly made for people with walking disabilities and the elder but not exclusively. The main marketing slogan aims at the stylish design and the owner being able to show himself with a cool scooter like cart called "Monpal ML200". The specially developed suspension promises high stability and it advertises high power of going an uphill slope and is smooth in start, stop and turning. It is authorized by the national public safety commission as electric wheel chair and recognized as a pedestrian. Thus a driving license is not necessary and it has to be driven on the sidewalk. By one time charging the battery, about 15.5 miles can be driven. The length is 23.4 inches. Price of the deluxe type is about US3279$ and the standard type is about US2846$. Coming on the market from March 15.

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Yamaha presents a Speaker/Receiver for Mobile Phones

Chaku-uta furu (receive music full;–), mobile phones can play real music instead of just ring tones. In Japan the mobile phone has thus became a popular music player competing with ipod and friends. Yamaha now is catering these target groups and produces a compact speaker system (NX-A01) and a Bluetooth(TM) receiver unit for the NX-A01 (TRX-RO1BT) in cooperation with the mobile phone provider au. This cubic form speaker in white (3.3x 4.6x 3.3 in.) and the wireless receiver in black (1.7x 1.8x 1.7 in.) allow listening to the music via mobile phones in decent quality. A stereo mini cable for connecting with a digital audio player or PC is also included. They are appearing on the market in the middle of February. Open Price

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New Mobile Phone for Elderly People and Kids

Three new line ups of 3G mobile phones from "au" are coming on the market in Japan in February. The first is the compact and basic model A5518SA that carries a 1.31 million pixel camera, FM radio, infrared communication function, miniSD card slot and a dispersion type sound recognition function for "input by voice". Hallo Messenger. It comes in 3 colors: passion red, raster white and smoke silver. The second is the Sweets Pure series in colors fitting the sweet and candy image: macaron franboise, cafe cream, and boir chocola. One package comes with 4 different kinds of stickers to customize its appearance. The camera and ir function, is the same as above but it has some additional functions such as Japanese–English and English–Japanese dictionary, security buzzer, mini light and so called teen‘s mode, which checks out the girlies doing too much of calling. Also it can be used for Hallo Messenger. The third A5520SA is for kids, which carries an alarm function. When the alarm function is used, GPS mail is automatically sent to a mobile phone, which is registered in advance. One color. They are all manufactured by Sanyo.

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Interior Home Electronics Series from Kojima

Ever been sick of not finding the right color washing machine that fits to your other household gadgets? The Japanese Home electronic shop chain Kojima announced a series of home electronics called Fresh Gray 2006, for young people starting a new life. The whole series includes 50 items that were developed in cooperation with 16 major brand manufacturers. The special point is that they all come in one united color of white silver or white gray. The items were chosen by design balance, function, compact and cost performance. The total coordinator is the designer Hiroki Sakamoto, member of the NY art directors club. The series is coming in Kojima shops and mail order sales from January 14.

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