Was it “the bow heard ’round the world?”
A senior administration official said President Barack Obama was merely observing protocol when he bowed before Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko upon his arrival at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday.
“I think that those who try to politicize those things are just way, way, way off [...]

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Microsoft’s marketing department has been putting in some overtime this month, it seems.
The company has taken a bizarre approach to promoting Windows 7 in Japan. Burger King locations there have launched the “Windows 7 Whopper”.
To match the software theme, the Windows 7 Whopper features seven patties stacked in a Whopper bun and measures 5.1 [...]

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Get ready for 3D TV because it’s coming to your living room sooner than you might think.
On Monday, Panasonic unveiled a 50-inch, high-definition 3D plasma TV along with glasses that make images appear as though you could reach out and touch them.
At a demo at the Panasonic home office in Osaka, Japan, race cars roared [...]

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OK, we’ve featured some pretty amazing robots here on Blippitt (see here for a sampling), but the new OmniZero.9 robot might just take the cake.
This amazing robot is basically a real-life transformer. It ate the competition for lunch at the recent 16th annual ROBO-ONE competition in Toyoma, Japan.
The OmniZero.9 robot can walk, it [...]

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No, sorry, April Fools Day is over.  This is for real.
Japan is planning to have a two-legged robot walk on the moon’s surface by the year 2020.  There will also be a follow-up mission involving both astronauts and robots, according to a new plan that was proposed on Friday by a government group.
Details of the [...]

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