The Land of Godzilla now has another monster terrorizing its streets—Boston Dynamic’s BigDog robot! Only… aren’t those feet? This isn’t BigDog Beta, is it? No wonder the Japanese look more puzzled than scared. [JapanProbe]

Got a spare cardboard box lying around? How about an old suitcase? Why not turn your junk into a speaker?

Fresh from the streets of Japan, the Yorozu Audio Sound Revolution kit lets you transform just about anything into a speaker.

Simply mount the Y…

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When it comes to potential new features for Twitter, the Japanese version has always been a testing ground. For example, Twitter in Japan is supported by ads, which haven’t hit the US yet (and nobody seems sure if they ever will!). While I’m just fine using Twitter without ads, we’d love to see an English version of Twicco, which basically adds group support to Twitter. You can test it out for yourself already, if you know Japanese or use something like Google Translate.

On Twicco, you can create a group account, and members can post messages that will then be distributed to the account’s followers. The idea of a community account seems to add a lot to Twitter, especially for people whose normal accounts mix business and personal posts. Businesses could also benefit from using a community to open up a dialogue with their customers. That way, the rest of us don’t have to read the ‘ tech support discussions and feature requests our friends are sending to companies as @replies: they can post them to the company community instead.

Twicco.jp: is Japan already seeing the future of Twitter? originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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