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A good read from the AP, featuring several of our clients at Snapp Media and a word or two from yours truly.

Read the full story 02:05 AM Mark Hiratsuka • Permalink •

Also at KES, Samsung finally unveiled its smooth-looking new PMP, the YM-PD1, and we were allowed a quick twiddle with it.

At the recent Korea Electronics Show (KES) in Seoul, HP was proudly showing off its latest exciting printers under various taglines proclaiming such gems as “Color Unlimited,” “Entertainment Unlimited” and so on.

Here in Japan it is now compulsory to possess at least one item branded with a popular cartoon character, preferably one with a ridiculous name and/or a cutesy smile.

(Via Runa)

Stefan over at SPOnG has just posted a mighty fine interview with Gran Turismo series producer Kazumori Yamauchi.

(Via SPOnG)

We love Screenhead but they rarely touch Japanese gear, so we were overjoyed today to spot this little gem on Mashiro Fukuyama’s futuristic samurai suits.

(Via Screenhead)

Epson Toyocom, a leading company in the quartz device business (or so it says) has been touting its Gyrosensor Golf Putter recently in a bid to expand the market for motion sensors beyond digicam anti-shake units.

(Via Epson Toyocom)

We make money not art has a stimulating brief overview of the Yokohama Triennale of Contemporary Art (what is it with pretentious names today?) currently going down in, well, Yokohama.

(Via we make money not art)

Flat-panel reseller Eizo has just reopened its Tokyo showroom over by Hibiya Station grandly known as Eizo Galleria Tokyo.

Those lovely people at SPOnG have been boasting of their superior fitness again, this time with a view to prodding us in the direction of the local gymnasium.

(Via SPOnG)

Folk who really dig their home theater will already be HDMI-ed to their eyeballs, we’re sure, but for those big spenders who want to push that high-def goodness a little further, may we suggest splashing up to $2k on Ophit’s new HDMI booster?

(Via IDG News Service)

If you’re sick of the fuss about Apple’s newest iPod (and no, we don’t feel that compelling urge to cover them here at DWT), then Korean firm i-BEAD’s latest DAP, the i-BEAD700, may soothe you somewhat.

(Via Akihabara News)

The much-hyped Touch! Generations range of educational/slightly-more-thoughtful-than-point-and-frag games on the Nintendo DS has apparently had the knock-on effect of encouraging folk to open their wallets for more good stuff.

(Via Game Science)

PSP Updates has been quick off the mark in pointing out that Sony has quietly released the 2.50 firmware update via the handheld’s Network Update function.

(Via PSP Updates)

Although this was announced last week, the weekend’s earthquake centered on Kashmir has brought Oyo’s earthquake survivor detector a little more sharply into focus.

(Via I4U and Oyo)

Our friends over at Wireless Watch Japan have an appropriately businesslike take on the announcement yesterday by online mall Rakuten and NTT DoCoMo that they plan to cooperate on a new mobile auction service.

(Via Wireless Watch Japan)

Looks like the Koreans just beat everyone else to the punch when it comes to wireless iPod nano headphones — c’mon: you know you want ‘em. Asiana IDT has been demonstrating the abilities of its new SH-N10s to our intrepid reporter in Seoul, who confirms that said cans have magical powers, including the ability to control the nano directly.

(Via IDG News Service)

The R&D guys at LG certainly aren’t slow to push the cellphone envelope and have done precisely that with their newest handset that went on show in Korea yesterday. The newcomer features the rather startling ability to not only receive satellite broadcasts, but to pause live shows TiVo-stylee.

(Via IDG News Service)

Quick heads up on a really useful little publication laboring under the clumsy moniker of Akibatica.

Just a quickie to point out that any PSP (non-homebrew) lovers with firmware version 2.0 installed can get themselves some, er, street cred courtesy of Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Paramount Pictures’ promo for the new Jim Sheridan movie Get Rich or Die Tryin’.

(Via Get Rich or Die Tryin’)

Lest it slip your mind, and because it gives us an excuse to run that photo, here’s a brief reminder that Sega’s follow up to Feel the Magic, called Where do Babies Come From? (or Akachan wa doko kara kuru no? in Japanese), hits the shelves of Japan next Thursday to titillate all Nintendo DS owners.

(Via Sega)