Friday, October 28, 2011

Fanta beach

Interesting new flavour of Fanta has reached the UK market: Fanta beach! The flavour contains "strawberry and kiwi. What an interesting mix, but it sure tastes refreshing in this cold autumn.
It feels like strawberry flavour comes first and kiwi as an aftertaste.

Good job, Fanta!


Thursday, October 27, 2011

Eneloop Mobile booster エネループ・スティック・ブースター

If you have ever run into a situation, where your gadgets are nearly out of battery and you don't have any chargers with you nor a change to charge in a long time, you may be interested in this. A while ago, I saw Jetdaisuke's videos about "Eneloop" rechargeable batteries, which claim to last for hours. Surprisingly, I found out that they have just updated their "mobile stick booster", which is a pencil-looking charger with two Eneloop batteries inside and usb port on the top. I surfed immeadiately to Amazon JP to look for this product, but it seemed to add up close to 4000円 with all the shipping and Tenso's fees. Pretty hefty price for a student.

Next step was to go on eBay and I couldn't believe my eyes, when I saw that you can get the Mobile booster for $25 including airmail shipping from Japan. I was little curious about the airmail shipping, but then again, I realized Japanese efficiency and it took only one week.

 

The value of the shipment was marked as only $10 to avoid customs.




Finally to the point, what this Eneloop Mobile Booster actually is?



There you can see the size of it. Batteries included are the newer technology Eneloops, which will give you 90minutes of charging time for Nintendo DSi, iPhone, PSP and other mobile devices. It came with two adapters, micro-usb and "nintendo-ds style usb".

^ charging in progress

To conclude, I believe that this tiny little charger is easy to carry in a bag, just in case if the battery is running out. It will sure come handy especially, when traveling!

For further info:


Tuesday, October 18, 2011

iPhone 4S

iPhone 4S is now officially released and Apple sold 4 million in 3 days!




Well, I know, its just a phone (= personal preference/asset), so I'm not going to praise it anymore. You can check all the features from the original source The reason I got it, was that I already got a buyer for my old phone and got unlocked 4S for relatively cheap price.

However, the exciting part is that I finally own a portable camera, which allows me to take nicer pictures and ジェットダイスケ will probably introduce nice apps and lenses to go with it.


I have been keeping up a photoblog of "Wall of Energy drinks" on my private facebook page, but since it has rapidly become popular, I'm going to introduce a new blog, only for energy drinks. It will be kept apart from my カリカレー blog, so that I can focus more on Japanese things here (which I haven't done much in these days)  :sadface

Anyways, here's a sample of future:


Happy Halloween everyone!