Tokyo, Japan

internet umbrella

music player on call

Aside their well-known car models or unique street fashions, Japan is also recognized for their great advance in technology. Recently, Japanese researchers have succeeded in such aspects as manufacturing the world’s smallest robot, providing retailers integrated circuit tags attached to their products, and an umbrella that uses the Internet to browse photos while users are walking through the rain. Japanese technology and design has expanded in making more convenient or interesting, the everyday life. Many of these designs don’t fix products that already exist but improve them. A computer monitor has been developed that inputs texts by sensing the movement of the user’s eyes over an on-screen keyboard. A music device has also been created that comes over to the user and plays music with the sense of hearing the owner’s voice. Designers should visit Japan to experience in technology by just being surrounded by the country where technology exists everywhere. For a more specific observation, The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo’s Koto City has become one of the biggest science museums in all of Asia for it’s technological displays and education in the field. Being educated in advances in technology in places like Japan question designers what can and cannot be done. It really expands the design mind and tests the risks and ridiculous ideas that design can take and attempt.

Catherine