Those who still consider Japan as a hub for electric productions only shall revise their opinion. The rationale is the mobility touch that seems to have influenced Japanese markets thereby inviting prospective consumers. Called the Kenchikukagu, it is the designer range of mobile furniture coming from the house of Atelier OPA based in Japan. The Kenchikukagu series incorporate a mobile work station, a mobile bed and a moible kitchen. Out of all, the mobile bed gathered my attention as it can be pleated when not in-use. It sports a small work space with a lighting touch that can appeal no less than a masterpiece, if installed in an office. Designed to ease your working, sleeping and eating habits, the designer mobile furniture are way beyond those virtual concept designs as are available for sale on Amazon Japan for JPY 800,000(about $7436 US).

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Spend a month in the populated urban vicinity (if you haven’t) and you’ll get to see kids driving hard with mobile sound systems singing loud. Really annoying! But if you have spare amount of dough piling with you then this unusual model of DJ mobile car can be yours. Designed and developed by Dutch artist Olaf Mooij, the creation targets the filthy-rich music lovers. Coming from Western Europe, the Dutch novelty has been abridged by an intelligent mind after taking inspiration from ‘God is a DJ’ and the car of our HOLY-POPE and the result is before your eyes.

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If skiing is what you are looking forward for your next vacation then it’s time to initiate discovering the best of the Skis, enabling you explore the beauty of the most hazardous yet glamorous skiing slopes. The alluring fascination about the high-end sport counts the skills and techniques exercised by the skier. Certainly, no one desires to carry on their adventurous activity with the dull appeal of the Skis irrespective of its technically developed feature. Hence, Anton Gliders Skis has come out with his out-of-the-box offering that flaunts the prefix of being the limited edition one.

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The ongoing Japan’s aging society has witnessed a surge in number of funerals with every passing day, which poses a handicap before the restricted space options. This has led to the evolution of creative alternatives; hence generating a god deal of death business here in Japan. Earlier, we introduced you to the multimedia tombstones unveiled in Japan and then considering the dearth of space, the available room costs about $20,000.

It was then Japanese nationals woke up to calculate a way to deal with the problem following a technological twist. Therefore, Nichiryoku identified an interactive family plot that fuses expertise with the customary. It stores the cremated remains of your loved ones in a personal sealed box that is kept in a secretive vault. As per your requirement, you can access the box and scan an RFID card that directs the system to fetch up your box and rest it in the entreaty area.

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With technology infusing life to every corner of the inhabitable zones, now it is marking its entry to the dilapidated corners of the orb. And credit for this goes to its futuristic feats likewise the Concept Ice Vehicle from Lotus. Against your expectations of facilitating leisure and entertaining activities, the latest ice automobile from Lotus is developed to make a trip to Antarctica during the Moon Regan TransAntarctic Expedition. Aimed at exploring the region, it is made up of tough material to endure the sternness of polar surroundings. The neat walk doesn’t leave the footprints behind as the CIV runs on biofuel. It is an ideal vehicle for the region suffering the worst brunt of global warming.

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Tired of hunting for your kind of designer furniture and fittings that add value to your elite interiors? How about implementing your own artistic aspirations and designing one? No, am not kidding! It is lately made possible by Front Design and all it expects out of you is to give shape to your longing design in mid air and view them taking shape of furniture onto a digital screen. It starts with drawing sketchy figures in open air (virtual imaginary), which then gets featured on a digital screen and can be witnessed as your prospective furniture masterworks.

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The very notion that our lifestyle is getting addicted to desktops, laptops and other random installed in-house mechanism that tend to add weight to our body needs a revision as there is always an alternative available. The question here is about choices! The case in point is the uncompromising nature of folks who have developed a passion for video games at the cost of getting extra layers of fat and compensating on their schedule that starts with a doe of exercise. But bringing an end to their unidentified yet worth focusing upon weird lifestyle, here stands an Exerbike Pro, the Game Bike that enables you stay glued to your video game whilst you pedal. The good part is the faster you pedal, the quicker you budge in the sport and it comes with an option for Playstation2 that unswervingly monitors your preferred video game. The involved commercial viability feature of the Exerbike Pro will certainly get all gamers fretting it out on their consoles while they shoot, aim, battle and save the world.

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Ages have passed and we have been living with a hidden belief that we should discard those disturbing arched CRT screens and TVs, but Microsoft (being a mogul) has a different viewpoint this. Having unveiled fancy Surface touchscreen table; the mastermind now wishes that it’s time to move back to curved displays sporting complete 360-degrees of imagery. Featured after the jump (video running above) is a Surface Sphere prototype, a colossal ball that is accessible via company’s Surface technology but applicable this time on a globular interface and display. Comparatively advanced technology and hardware is required to run the Sphere as idea is to warp the pictures along with the interface so that it offers quality visibility when projected onto a dome.

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Yes, patients with stroke now can do away with the burden of being glued up to their beds as now they can be hopeful to burn their stress and rejuvenate whilst being at home. Also, those introvert nerds can now join the queue as there cannot be a better way to workout without beating the front door. The dome shaped treadmill here sports an arched VR display ion its face. Designed and developed by University of Tsukuba Japan, the VR treadmill can lodge an 80kg person at an on foot speed of 1m/sec with pace of 80 cms. Offering a viewing angle of 270 degrees horizontally and 60 degrees vertically, the development of VR Treadmill is still under process and may prove to be pricey for hospitals.

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Augmented reality (AR), which literally reflects a perfect blend of virtual world and reality is a cool concept that directs to constructive relevance in routing arrangement, medication, construction and other diverse areas. Geisha Tokyo Entertainment Inc. [JP] lately discovered a way to assist all solo otaku conquer their tribulations in identifying a real girl friend. Their substitute to cure solitude 2.0 is called “Dennou Figure ARis”, and in English lingual it is known as “Cyber Figure Alice.” If curious to know how it works, read further. Shoppers obtain the AR software, 2 cyber sticks and 2 cyber cubes and place one these cubes before their PC pointing a webcam towards it. And the interesting outcome would be a screen exhibiting a 3D image of Alice footing on apex of the chop. With the help of cyber sticks, you can then “feel”, cuddle and (obviously) peer at your novel girl friend.

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