What are the most amazing inventions that you have seen in Japan which you don't see in the west?
2007-03-16 18:33:08 · 8 answers · asked by Duke 2 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Japan
PASMO card at train station and bus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM8wazK8pyo
ASIMO the robot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFgXEkzMq7A
Shinkansen - bullet train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZrkJbYw-k0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES5LEF1bUlw
Linear Motor Car - JR Maglev (500km = 310 miles/h)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQyj-3C99bA
Yurikamome - New Transit Sysytem (no train driver)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfAQDV4_63w
TV in cell phone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApUfbXDIEAo
Prius -Toyota car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbVHnNNEZ_s
And this it not an invention, however, it's cool
Tokyo Girl's collection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISBIB9wYWjs
2007-03-24 02:30:14 · answer #1 · answered by Joriental 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I visited three years ago and my host mom wasn't even well of or anything and her minivan had a back-up camera that aligned the steering wheel angle with the lines of the parking spot so she didn't even have to look back she just watched the screen and knew exactly when she was in the tight little parking spots.
It was kind of cool too, to watch the college kids text message on their cell phones; they have like 4 times as many phoentic characters not to mention all the Kanji in their language, and they were still texting faster than I could read it.
Their digital cameras were much thinner and better than anything we had in America at the time I went, and they also had an awesome assortment of electronic dictionaries that translated to and from English and many European languages that were much more advanced than those I've seen in America.
The heated toilet seats were definitely amazing, too!
2007-03-20 13:10:48 · answer #2 · answered by Lowa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Were heated toilet seats invented in Japan?
2007-03-16 19:47:31 · answer #3 · answered by laurie111_1999 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Washlet
2007-03-17 06:06:03 · answer #4 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the washlet its like a toilet with a remote control and if you push like one button it like ssprays water to your butt and then heats the seat to any temperature and then there is this toilet noise thingy soo if you need to fart really loud or soemthing you just push that button and the toilet noise thingy covers your fart noise there is much more soo cooll......
2007-03-23 02:48:55 · answer #5 · answered by dog lover 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Public cubicles for napping, hostess clubs.
2007-03-16 18:36:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
K-cars, automatic water *** cleaning toilets. there are more but i think its been imported or made here, like mechanical pencil.
2007-03-16 23:03:55 · answer #7 · answered by goldhondamai 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
aquarium building
2007-03-16 19:13:32 · answer #8 · answered by tisya 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋