How Japan’s forgotten past can stop IoT’s dystopian future
Technology is global, but ideas are local. The same IoT technology is being deployed all over the...
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Category: Hardware Startups
The hardest thing about hardware startups : Live from CEATEC
This year at CEATEC, I worked with Plug & Play Japan to bring on stage founders from two very...
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These robots are changing cooking forever. But one thing will never change
The robotics ecosystem in Japan is amazing. And confusing. It’s a collection of crazy ideas,...
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DJ Selects: IoT, Japan, and the Uncertain Future of Poop
Startup founders claiming their company is going to “change the world” has become a cliche. But rarely do we see a product that could clearly and significantly make someone’s life better. D-Free is one of those products. However…
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Why Your New Smart-Home Won’t Really Belong to You
We’ve been talking about smart homes and smart cities for a long time. However, it turns out...
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Why Wind and Solar Energy Make Sense in Japan
The promise of renewable energy has always been alluring. Now that the technology has caught up to...
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What This 330-Year-Old Company is Learning from Startups
The conventional wisdom is that traditional Japanese companies can’t innovate. And...
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How Dancing Satellites from Japan Will Clean Up Outer Space
There are a lot of aerospace startups in Japan these days. We are seeing innovation in everything...
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How Japan’s Unique Relationship with Robots is About to Make it #1 Again
Japan had been a global leader in robotics for decades, but recently the traditional Japanese...
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Japan’s Secret Strategy for Global Drone Domination
Blue Innovation attracted a lot of international attention last year when they announced the...
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A Successful Kickstarter Campaign Almost Bankrupted This Startup
Hardware is hard. In fact, sometimes the simplest and most straightforward ideas turn out to be...
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Japan Announces Plans to Land on The Moon by 2020
We startup founders and investors like to talk about “moonshots”. It points out startups that have...
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