A member of the Japanese Kobe Gakuin University (Kobe Gakuin University) Tsunesuke Furuta (Tsunesuke Furuta) created a flying chair for the elderly.

Normal car seat moves through spetsplatformy hovercraft: air supply through thin holes, injected a special compressor.

Carrying capacity is about 150 kg, so the seat can enjoy almost all older Japanese – although so in theory: to develop commercial deployment still need to bring to mind, recognized creator.

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Japan back in 2006, shortly stated that he was going to colonize the moon for its robots. As it appears from recent reports of the General Directorate for the development of space policies of Japan, the country is the rising sun has not changed. Thus, the two-legged droidy will walk on the surface of our satellite as early as 2020. But how effective are the electronic lunkhead with two lower limbs, remains to be seen.

Widely known to the Japanese love robots resulted in the fact that to save lives in emergency situations, where some have used robots.

Its mission – safely remove the victim from a dangerous area, where he hit something solid.

SoftBank Mobile, one of the largest telecom operators in Japan, said that due to the low popularity among Japanese iPhone smartphone will be given to «free»: you only need to sign a contract with an operator for two years.

Previously, under similar transaction 8-gigabaytnaya version «apple» phone costs $ 235. However, it is not difficult to guess, such a sharp decline in prices can not refer to only one version of iPhone: the option of 16 GB of memory will cost Japanese already, let us say, not $ 350, and $ 118.

In addition, SoftBank Mobile has reduced the monthly payment from $ 62 to $ 45.60.

It seems that South Korea met to take away the title of «country Robot» Japan, because, according to authorities in the country, with the robots – the future of the South Korean republic.

Minister of Knowledge Economy said that the South Korean Government will allocate one billion dollars for the project «Land robots», which includes construction of two unique parks. Raspolozhatsya they are in two different cities.

The first city-«lucky» Inch'on be that on the west coast of the country. The construction of this park will spend $ 560 million. The remaining amount will go to the city of Masan.

In the parks will be built research centers, exhibition halls, stadiums and educational institutions. Will also be carrying out various activities involving robots.

Rumors about the new Acer Aspire One with 10-inch screen runs a long time ago. Now information about the new compact laptop from Acer is fully confirmed, and there are not only photos devaysa but specifications, pricing and date of sale – so that there is to say, the new Aspire One is already sold – a few days ago, the company officially announced the start of sales in Asia and USA!

For example, in Japan, Southeast Asia – and in winning political correctness – consumers will soon be available to model Acer Aspire One D150. The laptop is based on the 1.6-gigagertsevom Atom N270, but its cost of 350 dollars. Recall Other specifications desyatidyuymovogo Acer Aspire One: 1 GB of RAM, Integrated Graphics Intel GMA950, chipset 945GSE Express, module WiFi (802.11b / g), a universal card reader, webcam Acer Crystal Eye, built-in stereo speakers and 6-element battery. 10-inch LCD screen Aspire One D150 is a resolution of 1024 × 600 and a characteristic «glass» surface CrystalBrite.

When netbuk reach our country and how much will that cost – not yet entirely clear.

In Japan, a new «sinkansen» E5, scheduled for launch in 2011.

This futuristic locomotive is not the fastest. Record speed for the time being prinadlzheit Japanese magnetic levitation train – MLX01 – at 581 km / h. Nevertheless, the new E5, developing 320 km / h, have something to boast about: at the moment – this is the easiest engine (body completely made of aluminum) and has the biggest front cowl, the length of which is 15 meters.
Testing of the new trains will start in July this year, and by 2015 the company-manufacturer is going to make 59 of these machines.