June 14, 2012
Toyota Motor Corp. unveiled a concept electric car for children at the International Tokyo Toy Show 2012 on June 14.
June 14, 2012
LONDON -- An unprecedented land grab for new Web addresses began in earnest on June 13 with fierce competition for new internet real estate including .app, .blog and .web from applicants hoping to break the near-monopoly of the .com top-level domain.
June 12, 2012
Six museums in Japan have teamed up with Internet services firm Google Inc. to make many of their artworks only a few keystrokes away.
June 11, 2012
People who have difficulty differentiating color can now get a better picture of how images look on their smartphones through a free app available on iPhone.
June 09, 2012
Construction has started on the Hayabusa 2, the successor space probe to the Hayabusa, which moved many Japanese people when it returned to Earth with asteroid samples after a journey filled with problems.
June 01, 2012
Bridgestone Corp. and Ajinomoto Co. used biomass feedstock instead of rubber trees to create high-quality synthetic rubber for tires, the companies said May 31.
June 01, 2012
Panasonic Corp. said it will team up with Chiba University and other groups to test a home-gardening machine that even people without green thumbs can handle.
May 31, 2012
Using high-performance cameras and printers, Canon Inc. has created authentic-looking reproductions of folding screens painted by prominent artists centuries ago.
May 26, 2012
LONDON/AMSTERDAM -- The world's biggest and most advanced radio telescope, capable of detecting signs of extraterrestrial life in the far reaches of the universe, will be located in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
May 23, 2012
A tug of war is developing between Japanese companies and rivals in the United States and Europe over global standards for electric vehicle charging technologies.
May 22, 2012
NTT DoCoMo Inc. unveiled a prototype smartphone on May 21 that has a transparent display.
May 16, 2012
Japanese astronaut Mamoru Mori compared riding a prototype electric vehicle unveiled by Honda Motor Co. on May 15 to his experience of flying on the space shuttle.
May 14, 2012
IT services provider Fujitsu Ltd. said it will sell a pedometer for dogs in autumn.
May 14, 2012
TOKYO -- Canon Inc. is moving toward fully automating digital camera production in an effort to cut costs -- a key change being played out across Japan, a world leader in robotics.
May 11, 2012
Panasonic Corp. has developed a foldable substrate that it says could eventually be used to allow consumers to wear smartphones on their wrists like a watch.
May 10, 2012
Almost too good to be true, the use of a smartphone application that allows free calls regardless of cellphone carriers is spreading worldwide at a dizzying clip, faster than even the social networking sites Facebook and Twitter did.
May 09, 2012
Pioneer Corp. on May 8 unveiled a car navigation system that displays instructions and maps on a translucent plastic board between the windshield and the driver's seat.
May 08, 2012
An elevator system set to debut this summer would be right at home on "Star Trek."
May 08, 2012
Oji Paper Co. said May 7 it has developed nonwoven zeolite fabric that can absorb radioactive cesium.
May 08, 2012
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. said May 7 it has developed technology that allows people to evaluate their skin condition with a smartphone camera.