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Talk with Thai PM Abhisit about Vision of Apec FTA
The contents of a partly private, party public talk with the Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva in Tokyo on Sunday afternoon after the Apec summit about the vision of an ...
Daimler Truck sacrifices profits for expansion in Asia
Andreas Renschler, the head of the world’s biggest truck manufacturer told the TechWatcher in an exclusive interview for the German financial daily Financial Times Deutschlan...
HMDs: How a technology tries to become a trend
In the weekend edition of the German national daily “Die Welt” I report about the new wave of head-mounted displays (HMD), that refueled the old dreams of a third eye. ...
Martin Köllings Japan-Notizen
Photo Story: Swimming Jewels
The TechWatcher visited the Mekka of the global Koi-industry, the Japanese prefecture Niigata, the home of the most expensive fish on earth. Here you can find some featured picture...
TechWatcher Asia
Work in Progress: TechWatcher Asia, more than just gadgets. On this site Martin Koelling, East Asia Correspondent with the German financial daily Financial Times Deutschland and se...
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Jaxa: Hayabusa brought back space dust / The longest round-trip of mankind ends in success
After months of careful analysis the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has claimed a total success of the longest round-trip ever of a man-made spacecraft. Today Jaxa annou...
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World premiere: Drive your truck like your Porsche / Mitsubishi Fuso introduces first truck with a double-clutch
So far, dual clutch transmissions (DCT) were used in super-sports cars for super-fast and super-smooth manual gear shifting. On Thursday, Mitsubishi Fuso, the Japanese subsidiary o...
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FPD 2010: Samsung presents flexible Oled display
At the Flat Panel Display Show 2010 in Japan (see the full report on TechWatcher) Samsung surprises with a prototype of a bendable amorphous Oled (amoled) display that has four ti...
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Gadget Review
Car Test: The Silent Death or: Electric Toyota: How do the EV, the PHV and the FCV compare?
On Thursday, Toyota had a small test event of the electrified cars at the showroom Toyota Megaweb in Tokyo on Thursday. The company made three models available for a short test rid...
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Networked Life
North Korea: How digital technology helps to get news in and out of North Korea
This is a screenshot of a news video by KIM Dong-cheol, a North Korean underground journalist with the Japan-based journalists network AsiaPress, shows a young woman in a North Kor...
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Robots & Home
“LED crystals”: The Beauty of LED Lights
Many LED lights are straight forward, dull replacements of traditional light bulbs. But recently the TechWatcher came across a few lighting innovations, that allow us a glimpse at ...
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Mobility & Space
Mobility For The Disabled: Ideas from Japan
When it comes to mobility solutions for the disabled and handicapped, Japan’s car manufacturers are leading the world. In no other country, even heavily handicapped costume...
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- Car Test: The Silent Death or: Electric Toyota: How do the EV, the PHV and the FCV compare?
- Jaxa: Hayabusa brought back space dust / The longest round-trip of mankind ends in success
- World premiere: Drive your truck like your Porsche / Mitsubishi Fuso introduces first truck with a double-clutch
- Nissan: New Mobility Concept
- The iCar: How The Car Becomes Just Another App
Eco & Industry
Cop10: “Historic Achievement”
It rarely happens that a global environmental conference earns praise from NGO. But the meeting on bio-diversity (Cop10), that ended Saturday morning in Nagoya, was celebrated even...