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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Category: Hardware Startups
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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The Hard Thing about Hardware Startups in Japan – Logbar
There’s a very good reason most Japanese hardware startups fail. Today we sit down with Takuro...
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Live & Unleashed – Japan’s New Wave of Hardware Innovation
Disrupting Japan is three years old, so we decided to invite a few hundred movers and shakers from...
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How this Musical Shoe Startup is Helping Hospitals – No New Folk Studio
Most great startup ideas don’t grab your attention right away. It takes a while before the...
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How One Good Idea Emerged from Japan’s Nuclear Disaster – Safecast
After the March 2011 earthquake and the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, TEPCO and...
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