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Forget about i-mode, the walkman or even karaoke. Japan's real genius, Ian Buruma explains in Inventing Japan: 1853-1964, has been inventing?and reinventing?itself with a speed that has astonished, amused and terrified the world. For example, he writes, just a generation after topknotted samurai pleaded with U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry to take his "black ships of evil" back where they came from, Japanese statesmen in tailcoats were cheerfully entertaining Western diplomats with rounds of whisky and whist...
...other day I had a walkman, and I was hitting with it on,” Hall said. “I just kept missing the ball...
...they owned and set it on fire. That way captured soldiers would not have family photos or letters that could be used against them by interrogators--and it also insured that any space in their vehicles that could hold water, ammo or food would not be wasted on a Walkman or Tom Clancy...
Also on the move is TiVo-style technology. Intel, SonicBlue and Microsoft all brought prototypes of personal video players (PVPs). No larger than a Walkman, these PVPs will store more than 70 hours of TV programs on internal hard discs and display them on 4-in. screens. The shows can be beamed to the players over a wireless Internet network. There's no price tag or release date yet, but Hollywood execs--already in a tizzy over TiVo--might want to lay in extra supplies of Tylenol...
...briefly tried it, but I usually wear a walkman, and I hop off the bike all the time to visit people and go to record stores and make deliveries and stuff...and since I wear sunglasses, it’s just too much stuff around your head,” Griffin said...