Category: Technology

Sony Qrio Robot Dance

QRIO (“Quest for cuRIOsity”, originally named Sony Dream Robot or SDR) was to be bipedal humanoid entertainment robot marketed and sold by Sony to follow up on the success of its AIBO toy. QRIO stood approximately 0.6 m (2 feet) tall and weighed 7.3 kg (16 pounds). QRIO’s slogan was “Makes life fun, makes you happy!”

Sony Corporation (ソニー株式会社, SonÄ« Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese multinational corporation and one of the world’s largest media conglomerates with revenue of $68.39 billion (as of 2006) based in Minato, Tokyo. Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video games, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.

Japanese traditional dance describes a number of Japanese dance styles with a long history and prescribed method of performance. Some of the oldest forms of traditional Japanese dance may be among those transmitted through the kagura tradition, or folk dances relating to food producing activities such as planting rice (dengaku) and fishing, including rain dances.

Nintendo Wire Stunts Commercial

Nintendo Company, Limited (任天堂株式会社 Nintendō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a multinational corporation founded on September 23, 1889 in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. In the mid-twentieth century, the company tried several small niche businesses, such as a love hotel and a taxi company. Over the years, it became a video game company, growing into one of the most powerful in the industry. Aside from video games, Nintendo is also the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners, a Major League Baseball team in Seattle, Washington. They are also are the partial owner of the Atlanta Hawks, an NBA team in Atlanta, Georgia.

Wire-flying is a theatrical stunt which involves suspending an actor from from high-tension wires, normally with a harness concealed under the costume to simulate the action of flying or falling, especially in the presence of other actors. (When other actors are not in the scene, a visual effect would more often be used to simulate this for reasons of both safety and cost.)

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Traditional Chinese: 香港特別行政區 ), commonly known as Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), is one of the two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), along with Macau. Comprising more than 260 islands, the territory is located on the eastern side of the Pearl River Delta, bordering Guangdong province in the north and facing the South China Sea in the east, west and south.

Madonna’s Causing a Commotion for Mitsubishi VCRs

The first Mitsubishi company was a shipping firm that Yataro Iwasaki (1834 – 1885) established in 1870. In 1873 it took the name Mitsubishi Shokai (三菱商会). The name Mitsubishi (三菱) has two parts: “mitsu” means “three” and “bishi” means “water caltrop” (also called “water chestnut”), and hence “rhombus”, which is reflected in the company’s logo. Another translation is “three diamonds”.

Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie (born August 16, 1958), better known as simply Madonna, is a six-time Grammy and one-time Golden Globe award winning American pop singer, songwriter, record and film producer, dancer, actress, author and fashion icon.

“Causing a Commotion” is a song by American singer Madonna from the soundtrack to the 1987 film Who’s That Girl. It was released as the album’s second single on August 25, 1987 by Sire Records.

The videocassette recorder (or VCR, more commonly known in the British Isles as the video recorder), is a type of video tape recorder that uses removable videotape cassettes containing magnetic tape to record audio and video from a television broadcast so it can be played back later.