Tokyo Correspondence

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy My story on the robotic "fashion model." Yes, I did ...

Xavel is the company behind the Tokyo Girls Collection fashion show and mobile/PC sites for electronic shopping that showcase some of Ja...

This gives you more of an idea of the dome's size. Toyota says the purpose of the machine is to see how people respond in driving when t...

This is the view from inside Toyota's new driving simulator: The Lexus is real, but the landscape is all computer graphics. The simula...

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Some reporters were oooohing that this robot from Hitachi was "kawaii." It has a cute voice, displayed cute arm movements and ...

Teraflops are what measure the superfast rates at which supercomputers process calculations. My story about a new supercomputer from NEC...

I played photographer as well as reporter at Sony's announcement of a TV with a new kind of display _ a world first. It's OLED,...

As though we weren't busy enough dealing with reality, welcome to the virtual world. We are about to get a whole range of cyberworlds...

My article on a new Konami game for the Nintendo DS that gives beauty tips has this blogger response. But I do have to ask: Isn't th...

Some buzz is abuzz on my story about using bacteria as a storage medium on this fascinating exchange among people who are into what'...

My story about Sony's thin display that bends like a piece of paper. Some technological breakthroughs are more than just a gee-whiz. ...

My story on Sony was the most e-mailed technology story on Yahoo! the other day. It was the only Japan news on the Top 10 List (includ...

Adam Greenfield, who has written "Everyware, the Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing," had some harsh words on his blog for my...

It's still a test, but computer chips stuck in buildings and corner posts in Tokyo's Ginza won't stop talking to you, as evident...

Of all the things you can make a robot do, University of Tokyo is having it serve tea . Professor Tomomasa Sato is serious this is an impor...