Gadget Controls You Can Wear (Japan)

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

  YOKOSUKA, Japan —  Rolling your eyes to turn up the volume of a portable music player and tapping your fingers to turn on a DVD player are among technologies Japan's top mobile carrier is testing for "wearable" gadgets. In one version, sensors and chips inside headphones detect electrical current produced by movements ...

Nintendo DS to Learn English (Japan)

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

TOKYO —  The Nintendo DS isn't just fun and games anymore for English students at Tokyo's Joshi Gakuen all-girls junior high school. The portable video game console is now being used as a key teaching tool, breaking with traditional Japanese academic methods. A giggly class of 32 seventh-graders used plastic pens to spell ...