Japan: MIRAI brings together gadgets and the Internet

Posted 29 September 2008 7:44 GMT

Countries	Japan
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Languages	Japanese

Japan

Alpha Bloggers announces a free event [ja] in Tokyo entitled, “Mirai: synthesis of gadgets and the net” (MIRAI：ネットとガジェットの融合), to be held on October 20th from 7pm to 10pm near Kudanshita station (see map [ja]). The event will discuss the possibilities of a future in which gadgets and the Internet are united, through a set of three different sessions: “New services and new gadgets”, “Possibilities and future of PCs”, and “Digital camera and digital video in a net era”.

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