From the category archives:
After finally receiving my new iPhone, it’s a fond farewell to its trusty, but at the same time far from fast, forerunner. A once cutting edge piece of kit that only had a life-span as long as this ladybird that for some reason really rather liked it.
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There’s no denying that smart phones and their electronic wallet equipped cousins are all well and good, but for some, none of them can beat the warm fuzzy feeling,
of a well used walkie-talkie.
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The constant touting of Tokyo as some kind of high-tech heaven isn’t technically true, as for every state-of-the-art toilet with a heated seat and hoses galore, there’s another that’s outdated and undoubtedly dirty. But that said, it does seem that even back in the day, technology here was still tiny,
and technicolour.
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The failure of Apple’s iPhone to mesmerise the Japanese mobile phone market may, among other things, mean that many consumers don’t want easy-to-use and intuitive machines — instead preferring the clunky and cumbersome menus they have been managing with for many moons now.
But, whereas a dizzying selection of displays may be ok for those that have grown up with such gadgetry, for older folk less familiar with a formidable amount of functions, simply sending a text can be taxing,
as well as terribly time consuming.
(click images for full-sized phone flummox)
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The vast majority of golfers would no doubt agree that Mark Twain’s famous suggestion that golf is a good walk spoiled is a little harsh to say the least, but rather strangely, the Showa-no-mori Golf Course in Akishima, western Tokyo, appears to have taken the denunciation to heart. As, while for obvious reasons the pummelling of the ball hasn’t been eradicated from proceedings, the hindrance of hauling one’s bag around has.
Meaning that, for the fairly efficient at least, a good walk now need only be spoiled by some seventy or so swishes of a club.
(click images for gargantuan golfing gadgetry)
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