welcome to another episode of japan series we all know that japan is a strange and beautiful country
but regardless of this fact it has also contributed in scientific discoveries
and technologies japan is the land of the rising sun as well as innovations in this
video we'll discuss many surprising japanese inventions that you didn't know about before
so without further ado let's start the video
electric rice cooker
the whole world eats rice but very few of us know that the electric rice cooker was invented
and mass-produced by mitsubishi electric corporation in 1945. these rice cookers
however consisted of a thermostat heat source and the cooking bowl the mitsubishi electric
corporation produced these cookers with one main disadvantage of tending to burn the rice
in 1956 however yoshitara minami created a rice cooker that could switch on
and off automatically this prevents the rice from burning toshiba started selling these new
rice cookers and within four years these cookers were in more than half of households in japan
laptop did you know that the first notebook size laptop was the epson hx20 first shown in 1980 at
a computer show in las vegas by seiko taking your computer along with you can create a few problems
unless it's the new epson hx20 notebook computer it does what most computers do they had no random
display like modern laptops too and the keyboard was like a tiny calculator today one could easily
mistake this laptop for a kid's toy with its beige black and red colors and clunky keyboard
here is a big transport machine with a cone-shaped design and very high speed this is shinkansen
a high-speed railway line network that was first invented in japan
the japs call it the bullet and it looks like a bullet this super express that thrusts aside
all existing ideas of train speed it runs on rail links a mile long on which it has reached
150 miles an hour on a trial run even then it wasn't flat out this railway was created
to boost the country's economy by connecting the outer regions to the capital city
of tokyo the bullet train is the brainchild of the japanese engineer hideo shima quartz watch
the quartz watch built by bell laboratories in the early 1920s has
much more accurate timing than mechanical watches
the most challenging part was trying to fit all the watch components inside a small wristband the
seikosia company became the first to achieve this with the seiko quartz astrin on december 25th 1969
3d printing
dr hideo kadama was the first person to get the patent for 3d printing technology in the year 1981
at that time he called it rapid prototyping it was not until the late 80s however that
the french continued the work of dr hideo kadama objects take shape as if by magic
created one layer at a time by a machine they can be made of plastics or even metals
digital construction plans are swiftly brought to life after the french the americans continued
this work until the evolution of what we know as 3d printing today
tactile paving
in 1965 miyaki used his money to develop tactile bricks
also known as tenji blocks he did this to assist the visually impaired pedestrians
regarding platform edges at the train station or even pavement curves that's right we're
talking about those yellow bumpy surfaces containing dots and bars two years after
development this product was installed along a highway near a school for the blind in okayama
by the next decade all of japan's national rail platforms were mandated to get these installed
the digital single lens reflex camera also known as dslr these cameras were created by the japanese
company nikon the company's domestic camera production has over 70 years of history in 1959
the model nikon f was marketed as slr camera yes that's the one mess they are certainly a wonderful
camera i'm buying this for my friend this nikon for a friend in los angeles i hope you like it
when we talk about the camera we must also know that even the first successful digital camera was
invented by japanese company kodak in 1975. codex got the instant camera you've been waiting for
instant color photographs that's what the handle's for so carry on cassette player
1979 was the year when the sony tbs l2 walkman was launched in the japanese market
however 16 years before a dutch company called philips created cassette technology
this walkman served as a cassette player that changed the way people listen to used music
the company's co-founder masaru ibuka did not want to carry around bulky tcd5 recorders for his trip
so he asked deputy president norio oka to make a playback only stereo version for headphone use
initially the device had two earphone jacks so two people could listen at once
at first they thought they would sell five thousand units monthly
but unexpectedly in the first two months alone over 500 000 units were sold
washlet
let's face it tourists who visit japan love how amazing the toilets are there oh my god
the total company has changed the way people view bathrooms with
automatic lids heated seats and music to hide any embarrassing noises
in 1980 however washley created a new age of high-tech toilets
they added the bidet function with integrated electric seats it also featured a nozzle that
retracts and extends at around 43 degrees also called the golden angle for cleaning and hygiene
emoji even emojis were made in japan in japanese the word emoji is described as a picture character
these started showing up in the late 20th century the skywalker dp-211sw is noted as the first
mobile phone to have pictograms it was released by softbank in j phone models while there were 90 of
them in black and white including the iconic poop symbol a few years later shigitaka korito designed
cartoon-like color photos in 12 by 12 pixel canvas for docomo
today by unicode standards there are over 3000 emojis used for various purposes
the face with tears of joy is said to be the most frequently used emoji dr nakamat's inventions
it would be hard to create a list of japanese inventions without first mentioning dr
nakamats he has over 3 000 patents for various discoveries illuminati confirmed
however his most famous discovery was the floppy disk in 1947 which was very
well known before the introduction of thumb drives in cloud storage i have 26 brains what
one of my brain is inventor qr code system
a quick response code in the matrix barcode initially invented in 1994 by the japanese
company denso wave today the qr code is widely used worldwide for a variety of reasons
this invention was the brainchild of mashihirohara who is also from japan car navigation
a long time ago before gps became popular hana invented a map-based vehicle navigation system
it was first introduced in 1981 but was very big and clunky and was designed to be placed
on dashboards instead of satellite technology however helium gas gyroscopes were used to
keep track of the car's speed rotation and distance traveled the selfie stick
ah the all famous selfie stick everyone had one but they've been around for a lot longer than
you might think the selfie sticks were first introduced in 1983 by two japanese inventors
hiroshi uweda and yuchiro mima they patented a telescoping exterior to support a compact camera
speaking many years later hiroshi uweda recalled how he came up with the idea to address a problem
of taking family photos on holiday but not trusting a stranger to hold your camera
camera phones
in the year 2000 the first camera phone was sold in japan and it was the sharp jsh04j phone
the sh-04 camera phone was made by sharp corporation with the investment from
softbank mobile it was the first phone in japan which featured a back-facing camera
cd dvd blu-ray how can we complete this list without mentioning the cds dvds and blu-rays
the compact disc or cd was co-invented by sony and phillips and was released in 1982
this paved the way for digital audio recordings and what you've just been listening to is the
ultimate in recorded sound it will make all conventional disc and cassette systems obsolete
it's dust proof scratch proof digitally recorded read by a laser and it's called the compact disc
in 1995 the dvd was born after the two companies teamed up to make this possible
it looks just like a cd but it holds much more information and it's redefining home
entertainment the world is turning to dvd for a better way to watch movies and concert videos
sony also released the blu-ray discs to the public in the year 2003
every one of them came out in japan to a blu-ray disc player there are many advantages going for
the blu-ray disc player and its media blu-ray discs deliver high-definition 1080p image quality
which is the best way to get the most out of your hdtv while a dvd is limited to standard definition
the novel yes that's right we also have japan to thank for the novel no surprise that japan was
responsible for something so important in history in the early 11th century the japanese story the
tale of genji was written by murasaki shikibu who was a noblewoman and lady in waiting at the
imperial court this is the first recording of a modern novel being written the story
featured the life of hikaru genji who was a son of past japanese emperor and a beloved concubine
flash memory flash memory is today considered as an underrated ship for storage option but
it's also true that our smartphones would never be able to function without it the flash memory
holds all the data found on our phones and keeps them for as long as we need them oh man who are
you you no not me you yes i am you just answer the damn questions who are you i have told you are you
deaf no you is blind i'm not blind you blind the flash memory was invented in 1984 by fujio masuka
at toshiba and changed the way a cell phone and other electronic appliances store and manage data
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