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Next time you’re feeling a little too facially fluffy for that videochat or pumped-up conference call, don’t waste vital calories heading for the bathroom. Simply reach for the Thanko iShaver and fumble for a free USB port.

(Via Akihabara News)

Gamespot has been poring over Japanese magazine Famitsu, discovering an interview with Sony Computer Entertainment software platform development head honcho Izumi Kawanishi wherein he lets slip that an email client for the PSP is under consideration.

Professor Kenji Kohiyama of the Graduate School of Media and Governance at takes a look at the significance to Japanese society of mobile phones, or keitai denwa over at Japan Media Review.

(Via Japan Media Review)

Softpedia brings news of a Japanese fanboy who invested considerable time and effort overclocking a Pentium 4 from 3.8GHz to over 7GHz using some fine cooling techniques and a lot of finger crossing, it would appear.

(Via Softpedia)

Bios brings the good word on Canon’s first brave attempt at dipping its toe into the DVD camcorder market, revealing that the DC 10 and DC 20 are due to hit the streets in October.

(Via Bios)

In the m:robe MR-F10, Olympus has unleashed yet another flash-based DAP on a rapidly tiring public, although this one appears to bring a little extra to the party by avoiding the crummy interface/design/feature-set pitfalls that competitors have dived headfirst into.

(Via Olympus Japan)

According to the good folk at i-mode Business Strategy, The WiPCom 1000 from Fujitsu spin off Net2-Com is a dual-mode handset capable of doing the VoIP thing either over 802.11b or through a 2G CompactFlash datacard on Japan’s Air H PHS mobile network.

(Via i-mode Business Strategy)

Well, it looks like those new handsets we mentioned earlier that Big D unveiled at the launch of its new i-channel push i-mode service are no great shakes.

We hope you’ll forgive the breathless nature of this post but we’ve only just escaped the madding crowd at NTT DoCoMo’s afternoon session called to announce its new i-channel service designed to bring even more news, sports, and weather information to already harassed i-mode punters in Japan.

NEC Infrontia is still flogging the dead horse that is ruggedised PDAs with the release of its Pocket@ iEX, a Windows CE 5.0 unit that can be knocked about with impunity.

(Via NEC Japan)

Takara is well known for its innovative approach to high-tech toys and the latest product of its fevered corporate imagination is no exception. The splendidly named Walkie Bits are claimed to be the world’s smallest programmable robots, which we’re not gonna argue with.

(Via Metropolis)