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>>108610927
I just bought one of these, an 80's masterpiece of Japanese engineering
>direct-drive motor with bidirectional servo and electronic brake
>automatic start and stop with size detection and speed switching
>quartz lock with magnetic recording detection
>dynamic servo tracer tonearm with magnetic damping in both horizontal and vertical directions

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>>108610927

in b4 mouse computer spam

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>>108613161
orange light

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>>108613512
flip open

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frutigery

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>>108613522
I use the pro versions of these. Best rechargeable batteries made.

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hello based department how may i help you

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>TOKYO, JAPAN: Japanese electronics giant Toshiba unveils robot "ApriAlpha v3" (L) capable of identify people's voices during conversations involving many participants, during a demonstration at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, 20 May 2005. Toshiba also unveiled a life support robot "ApriAttenda" (R) capable of visually identify users.

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>Researcher for Japanese electronics giant Toshiba, Daisuke Yamamoto, displays the prototype model for the new desktop-sized robot called the "ApriPoko", which can recognize human voices and operate electronic devices such as televisions and air conditioners, at the company's laboratory in Kawasaki, Kanagawa prefecture on March 31, 2008. The company claims the 27-cm tall robot can learn human languages, like infant speech development.

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>Japan's electronics giant Toshiba introduces the prototype housekeeping robot "ApriAttenda" at the company's laboratory in Kasawaki, Kanagawa prefecture, suburban Tokyo on March 11, 2009. The robot has wired controled hands with three fingers on its arm and small CCD camerasin the palms of its hands. The 1-meter tall roboto can become 0.3m taller to work at high place.

>TO GO WITH STORY BY MIWA SUZUKI This picture taken on September 14, 2012 shows Japan's home electrical appliances collector Kenichi Masuda displaying Toshiba's "Walking Type Toaster WT-2" (L) and "Snack-3" cooking machine in Tokyo. For Masuda, these quixotic gadgets show the bravery and idealism of Japanese companies in a high-growth era. Japanese consumer electronics evolved from this trial-and-error period to sweep the world in the late 20th century, with Sony's Walkman standing as perhaps the epitome of Nippon Know-how.

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>>108613662
forgot image

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Sure. Here's some shitty photos of Sony's 1999 design book. Starting with their fun universal remote.

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>Researcher Kazuhiko Takahashi of Japanese optical maker Olympus, operates a micro manipulator, which is supported by three strings made of shape-memory alloy (SMA), to assemble a wristwatch as he observes through the double-focus lens microscope which can display a large focus depth image on the video monitor at the company's basic research laboratory in Tokyo 26 February. The micro manipulator can move delicately as the three SMA strings are controlled with heaters and sensors. These micromachines, under a government sponsored project, are developed for the access into complex machinery systems like power plants.
>Date created: February 27, 1999

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Sony made a line of amorphous blobby transparent cassette players, targeting young'ns. They even had a glow in the dark version.

>>108610927
left one

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>Employee of Olympus Optical, Mayumi Yamazaki, shows off a prototype "wearable personal computer," which consists of an IBM-made Walkman sized main unit weighing 382 grammes, Olympus-made monocle headset with a full-color screen and a pointing device, shown during the company's technology exhibition in Tokyo 03 December 1999. The monocle HMD displays a 10-inch virtual computer screen image from a distance of 50cm.

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The glasstron range were head mounted displays. Though the marketing shots makes it look slightly nicer than it actually was.

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Last one. The Z100 weighed less than 5.3 ounces, supported the latest standard (2G), and had a lithium-ion battery that provided 2.5 hours talk time, 24 hours standby.

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>An employee of Japan's Kyocera shows off a video cellular phone DataScope which can transmit color images at the comunication tools exhibition Com Japan in Tokyo 07 November. Data Scope has 80,000 pixels color CMOS image censor for its camera and it will be put on the domestic market next month.

>>108610927
Japan will never rise again.

>>108613788
forgot
>Date created: November 07, 1997
>>108613769
i remember that one irl

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>TOKYO, JAPAN: Nippon Iridium employee, Nanae Saishoji, displays a multi-mode handset of Iridium satellites telephone service, made by Japan's electronics giant Kyocera with a price of 370,000 yen (3,100 dollars), which is able to use as current system cellular phone without a satellite phone adapter 29 October at the company's headquarters in Tokyo. Iridium will start worldwide its satellite telephone services on 01 November.
>Date created: October 29, 1998

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>>108613884
detach

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if you were serious about your tape decks, you had a nakamichi

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cool stuff.
>>108611474
what a relic man.

>>108610927
90% of this thread is from the mid-2000s. Like anything pre-iphone.

>>108610927
>all this cool novel tech bringing the future to us
It will never cease to piss me off when cryptoluddites say "technology is the problem with humanity we should go back to monkee everything would be so much better if we were in harmony with nature aaaahhh"
Motherfucker removing technology or convenience will never solve the core issue, which is our fucked up minds that look to exploit everything.
We were doing it in the stone age, and we're doing it now. Technology gives us the power to make the world and nature a better place.
I know they don't want to admit it's jews and nigs that are degrading our society and culture, but come on.

>>108618580
DUDE
WOAH

>>108618601
I'm not trying to sound like a joe rogan "intulecktuahl", it just drives me fucking crazy when I see this bullshit statement thrown around.

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>>108611474
I've got a deck like picrel. (A similar model). "Amorphous" heads, quartz-locked transport, Dolby B and C, auto reverse, feather touch controls. It's great.

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>>108619072
Nice! I have my dad's Technics RS-B78R. Among other things it has a track selection feature you can use if you want to skip a couple sounds on either side of the tape.

Any recs for older Japanese tech? Like flip clocks, timers, really anything interesting and/or mundane as long as it works and is well built

https://youtu.be/VxIEv5sRovM

https://youtu.be/W-whTVRGcVM

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>>108619110
very nice. I've always wanted one with the trap skip feature.

>>108619112
In my experience flip clocks can be very noisy and expensive to buy in good condition, plus potentially expensive to try to repair.

vintage solid state alarm clocks are much more reliable.

I spent a fair bit of money on a new rotor for my flip clock, and it still makes a loud enough buzzing noise that it is useless as a bedside clock. New ones are expensive and they might also not work right. One day I'll try one more time to track down why it's buzzing so much, but I might try to just redo the mechanism. I don't like doing that sort of thing to old electronics but I think replacing the AC driven motor and gearbox with a microcontroller and a new motor to directly drive the flip display might be a better long term solution.

My ideal flip clock would be one that works fairly quietly, with a wood grain finish, and a cassette player with a choice to use the tape as the alarm sound. I have never been able to find one so I might try to build one someday.

Anyway, you could also try looking for radio only walkman players like picrel. Much more likely to be in good condition than a cassette player.

https://youtu.be/FNoVD-ljVBM

https://youtu.be/bwtjucKFjtg

https://youtu.be/rbh1XP4kCT4

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>>108619112
I have a small flip clock collection which I quite like, but it's not necessarily something I would recommend because of inevitable motor gearbox failures and stupid ebay prices. One anomaly is this flip timer, which I don't own. What's interesting is that nearly all the ones on ebay are fully functional. They look to have a similar Copal mechanism as many vintage alarm clocks, but many of those are sold "for parts."

>>108619206
>the tape holding the CD drive closed
pottery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3O1vVGJTqw
want one

Phones are so nice looking, I wish I could have a phone. I wouldn’t have anyone to text though. I just sit here in my turmoil. I sit here in the dark and stare out the window at the night sky thinking and pondering, the way a paper bag blows in the wind makes my mind unravels like a thread on a spindle and I gorge myself on visions of the ancestors.