The Mini is still going strong.
Rez is the new game from United Game Artists, the group that brought us Space Channel 5
It's hard to tell if it's going to be any good. It appears to just be a shooter with cool graphics and rocking techno music. One strange thing, the PS2 version has an optional vibration pack which you can strap to your head, put in your pants or sit on, whatever, and *feel the beat*.
Give a geek a PDA he'll make games. The lead programmer of Sacrifice had written 3D libraries for his Palm Pilot but now that some PDAs with some decent power and displays are out like the Compaq iPaq series there doing much more interesting stuff.
Download this cool utility which I found via Joel on Software.
There is another display show in town and they showed some of them on the news tonight. One was a color transparent luminescent display. What does that mean? Well, you've probably seen those glass LCD clocks you can buy where some kind of frame holds up what looks like clear glass except there's a digital clock display in the glass. This new display tech allows a full color luminescent display in a similar situation.
Samsung was showing a 40 inch LCD display!!!! As far as I know that's the biggest so far. Everybody has switched to the new organic EL displays as they are called which supposedly means cheaper prices and the ability to make larger displays as well as having more bright and vivid colors.
I'm watching Tonight−2 and they are showing the Tokyo Car Show which is currently going on. They of course are showing some of the concept cars. One interesting ideas it the POD.
What makes it interesting is not it's looks but it's features. For example all 4 doors open automatically and slide out in opposite direction giving the most room for getting in.
The seats automatically turn themselves to make it easy to get in. And can turn for 4 person conversation.
Here's a great article on the new 3G Phones in Japan.
It talks about how it's been more successful than planned so far, what the competitors plans are, etc. For example J−Phone's 3G system is supposed to support the world standard which supposedly means you could use the phone in over 100 coutries implying that NTTs do not.
Digital Photography Review just had a comparison of several different CompactFlash cards. The interesting thing is, the cards labeled as 8 times faster like the Lexar cards or the new SanDisk Ultra cards didn't actually perform any faster in their tests. In fact they performed SLOWER!!! That makes me wonder, why do Lexar cards still cost over twice as much as non Lexar cards here in Japan?