{"id":8850,"date":"2006-04-03T00:28:34","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T00:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8850"},"modified":"2006-04-03T00:28:34","modified_gmt":"2006-04-03T00:28:34","slug":"akihabara-gadgets-via-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8850","title":{"rendered":"Akihabara Gadgets Via Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/akihabaranews.jpg\">One of the great things about so much video content coming to the Web is that it gives you an opportunity to virtually visit trade shows, cons, and &#8220;scenes&#8221; in far away places. One of our favorite sites for keeping up with the gadget scene in Japan is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akihabaranews.com\/en\/index.php\" target=\"new\">Akihabara News<\/a>, and with the recent addition of their HD video feeds, we can now see as well as read about what&#8217;s going on in Akihabara (the heart of the Japanese electronics, anime, and otaku scenes). <\/p>\n<p> Recent vids have included part 1 of their guide to gadget shopping in the area and a trip to the Tokyo Anime Fair. HD-camera aside, the productions are very lo-tek, and site owner Daimaou&#8217;s thick French accent is hard to understand sometimes, but it all just adds to the surreal quality of peeking into this strange world half a planet-spin away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things about so much video content coming to the Web is that it gives you an opportunity to virtually visit trade shows, cons, and &#8220;scenes&#8221; in far away places. One of our favorite sites for keeping up with the gadget scene in Japan is Akihabara News, and with the recent addition &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8850\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Akihabara Gadgets Via Video&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}