On a lighter note however, I have been walking around the streets of Tokyo, particularly in the Akihabara district which is the technology mecca of Japan. We walked into the district filled with tons of tech shops etc, and came across a huge tech store called “Yodobashi Multimedia Life”.

I saw a few things that either impressed me or made me chuckle – so armed with the poor camera in my Blackberry I took a few snaps for you to see. Here goes!

This is a huge laptop with a 640Gb hard drive, 4Gb RAM and a 22inch screen - laptop hmm i think not.

This is a Panasonic Vieja 103 inch screen. It is huge... to give you some idea of scale, I am squatting i front of it and Im a big guy!

How about a Ring Toss? I have no idea what this means.

You have to try the Funny Banana....

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