Bullet Time
By Benny Har-Even in Editorial
I have to admit that after looking forward to it for some time, I was underwhelmed by the Bullet train experience. Of course, initially it was a thrill to see that iconic snub nosed carriage at the front, but it whizzes past in a flash and then you just get on, well, a train.
Naturally, I was expecting the inside to be as cool as the exterior, but really it’s just a train that goes very fast. That said, it’s impressively quiet on the inside, especially considering you’re doing over 200Km per hour (130 miles per hour).
I was slightly surprised that there was no Wi-Fi access on the train at all either
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Won’t you take me to
By Benny Har-Even in Editorial
Posted in Japan on
One of the most famous places in Japan is Tokyo’s Akihabara
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The new and the old
By Benny Har-Even in Editorial
Posted in Japan on
As it turns out, Japan isn’t a country of flying cars and androids (OK I new that already) but it is a place of contrasts. The buzz of the new and technological does pervade, but these are balanced out by places of peace and tranquillity and I had the opportunity to sample both on my first full first day.
I had an early taste of the technological as soon as I visited the men’s room after landing at the airport. The toilet seat had an electronic appendage, with buttons down the side
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Business Class
By Benny Har-Even in Editorial
Posted in Japan on
So I’m now sitting on the plane to Japan and my initial impression of the business class chairs is good. For a start I have legroom on an aeroplane, something I’d thought was one of the strange myths.
At the rear of each seat I was satisfied to see a display I’d estimate to be about to be about 12in in diameter but disappointingly was standard 4:3 rather than widescreen, which means pan and scan, rather than ‘as the director intended’, as purists are wont to say.
Before I got to play with the toys though I was distracted by the camera on the screens above that showed the tarmac rushing past as we lifted off and then the ground below us. Quite scary really.
Back to the seat and something I found odd was the pocket underneath the screen that was stuffed to overflowing with numerous items, including some slippers and, for some reason, a hanger. (It turns out this is for a jacket. Oh.)
It also contained a pair of headphones - in a bag, but the sort of bag one normally finds sandwiches, which I thought was a bit odd but presumably for hygiene reasons. Now, in my experience airline headphones tend to be an exercise in torture, but these, (Panasonic RP-HC150s if you were wondering), were actually perfectly comfortable.
To my further surprise they had a switch that enabled noise cancelling. This was good though not up to the level of the Sennheiser 450’s I had brought with me. The Panasonic’s however had the double plug that all aircraft headphones insist of using, while naturally the adaptor on my Sennheisers had naturally long been lost.
The remote for the entertainment system, that I discovered was called the MagicBox 3, looked like a double sided mobile phone
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Big in Japan
By Benny Har-Even in Editorial
Posted in ToughBook, Panasonic, Japan on
Much like a 1984 version of George Michael, I’m currently sitting in a taxi on my way to Japan. (Via the airport obviously
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