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Dating websites get inventive with games, apps

May. 26, 2012 - 02:00AM JST ( 2 )

Nearly two decades since the start of online dating, the match-making sites that launched millions of relationships are spicing things up with online games and going high tech and offline to produce more happy ever afters. Games, apps and offline events are beginning to replace the… Read

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'Made in space' coming soon to a product near you

Lifestyle May. 12, 2012 - 06:32AM JST ( 2 Comments )

The European Space Agency is hatching plans for a branding campaign aimed at making people more aware of the benefits of spending their hard-earned taxes on the International Space Station (ISS). The list of products… Read

Automatic doors that don't need electricity

Lifestyle May. 10, 2012 - 10:28PM JST ( 17 Comments )

Since the big tsunami and nuclear plant disaster in Japan last year, the term “conserve electricity” (“setsuden”) has been in the forefront of everyone’s lexicon. It’s in this context that Yuki Corp brings us “Auto… Read

Want to quit smoking? Try acupuncture or hypnosis

Lifestyle May. 09, 2012 - 06:10AM JST ( 11 Comments )

Acupuncture and hypnosis have been promoted as drug-free ways to help smokers kick the habit, and there is some evidence that they work, according to a research review that looked at 14 international studies. Researchers,… Read

The ultimate babysitter? iPads for infants stir debate

Lifestyle May. 07, 2012 - 06:12AM JST ( 16 Comments )

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One-person karaoke booths are huge success

Lifestyle May. 05, 2012 - 06:07AM JST ( 8 Comments )

Last November we reported on a karaoke booth for one to three people in Akihabara called Choi Kara, which was becoming a big hit in game centers. Around the same time, another company opened One… Read

How do you count the world's hungry people?

Lifestyle May. 03, 2012 - 07:00AM JST ( 0 Comments )

Two years ago, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched a petition to fight hunger with the slogan: "1,000,000,000 people live in chronic hunger and I'm mad as hell." Since then, more than 3.4… Read

Learn how to sleep in a toilet stall like a pro

Lifestyle May. 01, 2012 - 11:04PM JST ( 21 Comments )

With the warmer weather coming, we are bound to have those days where a particularly heavy lunch or wild night before turns us into zombies by 1:45 p.m. The question is what do you do?… Read

Rich Asians go full steam ahead into super yachts

Lifestyle May. 01, 2012 - 06:30AM JST ( 2 Comments )

The newly wealthy in Asia think nothing of spending big money on a big boat for prestige and fun but the region's nascent yachting class may have trouble finding a berth in overcrowded marinas. Asia… Read

Japanese engineers find second life in China

Lifestyle Apr. 29, 2012 - 10:59PM JST ( 12 Comments )

Their technical skills helped Japan's corporate giants sweep all before them in the 1980s, and now thousands of aging Japanese engineers are finding a new lease of life in booming China. "My profession is going… Read

Smartphone app combines fitness with Japanese dating simulation game

Lifestyle Apr. 29, 2012 - 06:18AM JST ( 12 Comments )

One of the most common applications of gamification — the process of applying game mechanics to a non-game context — is personal fitness. Just take a look at the influx of fitness-centered smartphone apps or… Read

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