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...ones that survived offer something no store can. "The sweet-potato vendor conveys the feeling of winter," says Seiko Yamazaki, who researches consumption trends at the Dentsu Institute, part of the Tokyo-based ad agency. "You hear his song and it makes you feel warm. You imagine eating this piping hot potato." (See the best pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Tokyo: The Street Vendors are Back! | 3/21/2010 | See Source »

...black rain fell. It looked like oil to Seiko Komatsu, then 9. He saw the rain soak his wounded grandparents. He had been having breakfast in their house when the bomb fell and gutted it. Three days later, the city of Nagasaki was destroyed by another atom bomb. Japan announced its unconditional surrender on Aug. 14. --By Lisa Takeuchi Cullen

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aug. 6, 1945 | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

WRITE AID Until now the worlds of paper and silicon have been irreconcilably separate. No longer, thanks to a clever doodad from Seiko called the SmartPad ($199). The SmartPad looks like a shmancy executive portfolio, with a seemingly ordinary pad of paper on one side and a port for your Palm PDA on the other. Whatever you write on the pad instantly appears on the screen of your Palm. You can even save your scribblings as an image and e-mail it. For bad handwriting, however, there's still no cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Jul. 24, 2000 | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

With 40 million americans suffering from some form of dyslexia, there's probably a market for a device that reads words aloud from a typewritten page. The Quicktionary Reading Pen from Seiko Instruments reads both words and their definitions and fits in your pocket, but it can handle only one word at a time and demands a deft hand for precise scanning. Experts applaud the concept but caution that, like other technologies that counter dyslexia, it's no cure. At $275, it's no bargain either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Technology Dec. 28, 1998 | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...Quartz Wristwatch 1969, sold by Seiko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Hundred Great Things | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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