We make money not art has a stimulating brief overview of the Yokohama Triennale of Contemporary Art (what is it with pretentious names today?) currently going down in, well, Yokohama.
Flat-panel reseller Eizo has just reopened its Tokyo showroom over by Hibiya Station grandly known as Eizo Galleria Tokyo.
Those lovely people at SPOnG have been boasting of their superior fitness again, this time with a view to prodding us in the direction of the local gymnasium.
Folk who really dig their home theater will already be HDMI-ed to their eyeballs, we’re sure, but for those big spenders who want to push that high-def goodness a little further, may we suggest splashing up to $2k on Ophit’s new HDMI booster?
If you’re sick of the fuss about Apple’s newest iPod (and no, we don’t feel that compelling urge to cover them here at DWT), then Korean firm i-BEAD’s latest DAP, the i-BEAD700, may soothe you somewhat.
The much-hyped Touch! Generations range of educational/slightly-more-thoughtful-than-point-and-frag games on the Nintendo DS has apparently had the knock-on effect of encouraging folk to open their wallets for more good stuff.
PSP Updates has been quick off the mark in pointing out that Sony has quietly released the 2.50 firmware update via the handheld’s Network Update function.
Looks like the Koreans just beat everyone else to the punch when it comes to wireless iPod nano headphones  c’mon: you know you want ‘em. Asiana IDT has been demonstrating the abilities of its new SH-N10s to our intrepid reporter in Seoul, who confirms that said cans have magical powers, including the ability to control the nano directly.
Quick heads up on a really useful little publication laboring under the clumsy moniker of Akibatica.
Just a quickie to point out that any PSP (non-homebrew) lovers with firmware version 2.0 installed can get themselves some, er, street cred courtesy of Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Paramount Pictures’ promo for the new Jim Sheridan movie Get Rich or Die Tryin’.
Where does Sega come from?
Lest it slip your mind, and because it gives us an excuse to run that photo, here’s a brief reminder that Sega’s follow up to Feel the Magic, called Where do Babies Come From? (or Akachan wa doko kara kuru no? in Japanese), hits the shelves of Japan next Thursday to titillate all Nintendo DS owners.
To mark yesterday’s Health and Sports Day public holiday, Takara subsidiary A.G. held the 12th Annual All Japan Paper Airplane Championships, also known as the 2005 Japan Cup.
If ever proof were needed that the world is a crazy, mixed-up place, the fact that Toyota and Hitachi have hopped into bed together may just be it.
Ceramicist yosoh brings us this elegant comment on how many of us tend to spend our mealtimes in front of computers, focusing more on bytes than bites (sorry, but we all know which is more important, right?).