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Carl Everett

Capital Services Group CEO

Many successful innovators have also been very artistic-unsurprising given the requirement for technical drawings in the making of prototypes: of this sort, Leonardo da Vinci is the most obvious arche

If you’re in the market for a spare computer, Shinginko Tokyo apparently spent about ¥12.4 billion of taxpayers’ money on computer systems that went unused in 2005.

YAPPA was established in 2000 by Masahiro Ito, a 17-year-old high school student with an interest in design.

Image courtesy of Jun Mistui Associates Inc, Architects

Although Sawada made a proud profit out of the license sale and the royalties, his main satisfaction comes from the fact that "people are actually using something that I created-I can see it is useful

Making things more interesting, Shinginko Tokyo is now seeking a ¥40 billion capital injection from the Tokyo metropolitan government.

Positioning YAPPA as “the UI company,” where UI stands for “user interface,” Ito is working to bring intuitive, easy-to-use, and exciting UIs to electronic products by embedding its technology

A common perception about Japanese architecture is that there is a extraordinary mix of old and new styles—from temples dating back a thousand years to Odaiba’s infamous sci-fi Fuji TV building, t

Dancoro in action, going up and down stairs in a smooth continuous motion.

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