For folks outside Japan, Softbank is the iPhone provider in Japan, 3rd. largest cellphone company, just invested $75million in Ustream. big hat tip for the information & the heads up on this opportunity to Akky Akimoto of founder of the essential English source for tech news, Asiajin.
took a welcome break from migraine-tending: really on the mend now and dropped off at the Hacker Space to get a wonderful home-cooked meal made by our incomparable Karamoon. Also shot a bit of iPhone video of the presentation by the main THSrs creating the prototype : If we do get to create the costumes, it will be so cool: and even if not, the experience is useful for many other things, including the THS online retail shop, which will be launching asap.
If we do get to create the costumes, it will be so cool: and even if not, the experience is useful for many other things, including the THS online retail shop, which will be launching asap.
Tokyo Hacker Space is an excellent place to make/learn/do just about anything, on your own or with like-minded folks. It's an inexpensive way to bring the play back into your life, especially if you're a busy adult. To join THS or for more information, check us out online: http://tokyohackerspace.org/en/about-tokyo-hackerspace
I’m such a geek that I actually enjoyed this. Described as:
Found footage on a VHS tape of a very early TV show about the Internet from Japan. Please write to me at carl at media.org if you have details. At about 2′ in, there was a one-minute blank gap that was edited out.
The show features Jun Murai, the Internet Samurai, in one of his first television appearances.
One of the US demonstrators notes:
A 2MB file might take a long time to download
The beauty of how far we’ve traveled from the time this video was procued is that I could have downloaded this 2GB (1024 megabytes) file in a few minutes – of course, it helps that I live in Japan!