During the Emerging Tech topic, I enjoyed looking at game consoles the most because it's a bit more interesting. 

I also liked looking at emerging tech in the home, because it's slightly more realistic. 

I liked looking at this topic because I like looking at new tech. 

Smart watches don't seem to be very popular at the moment, but after looking at them I think they look really cool and plan on getting one. The biggest Smart Watch out is probably the Sony Live Touch Generation 2.

Layer is also one of the biggest AR company's in da business. You can download an app for it.

It looks really cool, and I think it'll really become popular  

AR wokrs basically when you take 'reality' and layer it with computer generated data and the view it through a mobile device :)

Aurasma's logo :)

There are many AR apps you can get for your phone. One being Aurasma. I think AR is pretty cool and will defiantly become more popular in time

Learning about Augmented Reality today :D

I think if you could connect your toaster to the internet, it'd be pretty cool. Because, let's be honest, the fact you could leave bread in before you leave the house and then while you're out have it make the
toast for you is pretty awesome

A design for a living room.. Looks really weird.

I think this looks really cool, some sort of all in one kitchen workspace quip with everything :)

An idea of a kitchen table! Looks really weird in my opinion and too futuristic...

There are quite a lot of ideas for everything to be connected to the internet, like having your fridge connected and tell you when things will go out of date and what you can cook with them. Sounds pretty cool, but I think it will be a long time before that happens

Oh and my iPod ;)

I have a few devices connected to the internet at ma house; My phone (Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc), laptop, PSP, Xbox 360 (Two of them), and my skybox :)

Learning about Emerging Tech today in the home :D

With Sony releasing only a image of the controller, what are we expecting from them of the console?

Personally I don't think the controller looks great.
It looks more compact, and quite frankly the touch pad looks ridiculous. I can't think of anything it can be used for other than perhaps a mouse for internet searching?

 




And with only rumors of the next Xbox we have nothing to go
on apart from this. Will the Xbox look like this? I doubt it.
Still looking more forward to it than the PS4.

Easy Touch Panel :D  Looks pretty rad

A motion kit is quite a lot more money at nearly £100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hopefully the prices will drop as it comes more popular

"When the WeMo Motion sensor is triggered, it communicates with the WeMo Switch, telling it to turn on the power to whatever is connected"  This is really cool!

A pic of what the plug looks like (:

WeMo made by Belkin is an is a sensor and switch what you can plug anything into and then using your phone control when it is witched on and off! Too bad it costs £40 for just one plug :/

This WeMo stuff is pretty rad! :D

A really good 3D printer can cost up to £1,617.00!!!!!!! That is a lot of money.. 3D printing is basically printing a three dimensional solid object. 


The problem is if this progresses piracy will become quite big with it, and people will loose a lot of money :/ 

It mostly prints with plastics and resin, but they are starting to use metals and concrete.   

Pretty stoked on learning about 3D printing :D 

New Collaboration Blog!

Hey everyone! I have very exciting news to share with you all! 

I have started a new collaboration blog! Official launch is today!

It will be a magazine styled blog with a more professional tone. There will be fashion posts, product recommendation and reviews, travel posts and much much more!

I will be blogging in detail about my upcoming Tokyo trip and host a lot of amazing giveaways!

Please please support and follow my new blog and please like the Facebook page as well!

Of course I will continue to blog here as well, but there will be no repeated content! 

Hope you all will like my new blog~ see you all there <3

New Collaboration Blog!

Hey everyone! I have very exciting news to share with you all! 

I have started a new collaboration blog! Official launch is today!

It will be a magazine styled blog with a more professional tone. There will be fashion posts, product recommendation and reviews, travel posts and much much more!

I will be blogging in detail about my upcoming Tokyo trip and host a lot of amazing giveaways!

Please please support and follow my new blog and please like the Facebook page as well!

Of course I will continue to blog here as well, but there will be no repeated content! 

Hope you all will like my new blog~ see you all there <3

Bad experience with EMODA!!

Hi all! It's such a shame that my first proper post of 2013 will be a negative post, but I feel like I must speak up about my horrible first (indirect) experience with Emoda!

My friend was visiting Tokyo at the beginning of Jan and picked up some Emoda stuff for me from the Shibuya109 store. It was during the 5 days Shibuya sale so it was utter pandemonium inside the store. He managed to grab the last sizes of two pairs of shoes and a coat for me. I'm so disappointed at Emoda at this point,  I don't even want to post pictures of the other Emoda items I got.

Below are some photos he sent me from Tokyo and I was sooo happy and excited!! My first Emoda items from the Shibua109 store!

A week later he came back and passed them to me and guess what I discovered?!?!

The black pumps I bought, one of the shoe was a size S and the other shoe was a size M! 

I was sooo mad! How can the SA make a mistake like that? It doesn't matter how busy they were!

I asked my friend in Tokyo to call the Emoda store for me. They were waiting for my call. They said I had to courier the shoes back with the receipt for an exchange! 

Well there was no way I'm going to pay for courier for the shoes to go back and forth! Luckily my best friend could fit the S size and she was happy to buy the shoes. So I asked my friend in Tokyo to go buy the other S and M pair from Emoda.

Now.. this is the the part that made me soo angry and disappointed at the Emoda service...

My friend tried to ask for a discount. The SA apparently gave a sincere apology but refused to give ANY discount! I had to pay FULL price for the second pair even though I'm buying another pair of shoes because of their mistake!!!

I even got the original pair for 10% off since it was bought during the Shibuya 109 sale! And these shoes are not cheap!! The price is 11,860yen (~135AUD)! I mean, the least they could've offered was a novelty item or something! And on top of that, I had to pay 4000yen (~50aud) to courier the shoes to Australia!

I tried to send a message via the Emoda website and I left the following message on Ena Matsumoto's blog and tried to send her a message too.

I basically told her my story and how disappointed I was at the Emoda service.

• エナさんへ、

  オーストラリアからのemodaファンです。

  ２０１３年１月２日にemoda、Shibuya１０９店にて初めてのお買い上げさせて頂きました。知り合いが東京に旅行していたので、私の変わりにemodaでカバープレートヒールパンプすを購入してもらいました。

  ですが、オーストラリアまで知り合いが持ち帰ってきてくれた新しいパンプスを開けたら片方ずつ、サイズSとサイズMが入っていたことに気づきました。店員さんがこんなミスを起こしたことがすごい残念です。特に海外に住んでいるため、すぐに返品して頂くことすらできないので、とても不可解です。

  知り合いにまた渋谷109店にお問い合わせして頂いた結果、一度靴を返品するために日本まで送り返して欲しいと店員の方に言われました。ですが、海外への送料はとても高いので知り合いが同じ靴を欲しいと言ってくれたので、残されていたサイズSとサイズMの同じパンプスを購入することにしました。

  このときに、店員のミスのお詫びに割引、またはノベルティーを要求したところ、お断りされました。

  店員のミスなのに、こちらで出来る限り早い解決法を案じたものの店員の態度にとても不可解な気持ちになりました。お詫びになにもしてくれないのはなぜでしょうか？

  私はemodaがとても大好きで、いつもチェックをしているのですが、お店の店員さんの接客の仕方に納得いきません。とてもがっかりです。私が日本のお客でないのが原因なのか知りませんが、どこのお客でも同じ対応をしてくれると信じています。

  下にミスを起こした店員さんと伝票番号を記入しておきます。
  何かの解決法をお待ちしてます。

  伝票番号：125155
  販売員：０２４５６　白樫　良太
  販売日：　１３年１月二日　２０：０９：０８

  
  

  And it was ignored!!!!

  I mean.. I really have nothing against the brand - the quality of the items were great and of course I love their style so so much. But I am thoroughly disappointed at the service! I've always loved shopping in Japan because the Japanese customer service is always impeccable! But this is just shocking!! Even the service in Australia isn't this bad! If they made such a big mistake like this, I am pretty sure I would be offered some kind of compensation! 

  I just don't think I can feel the same love for Emoda any more after this horrible experience. I was really looking forward to buying a LOT of Emoda when I visit Tokyo next month.. but now I'm starting to look into other Japanese brands such as Gyda, MURUA and Rienda. It's hard to respect a brand that cares that little about their customers. 

  I am in such a dilemma though, because I still love their clothes so much. My Japanese friends that heard this story were all so shocked and angry! They are all sworn off Emoda now =/

Bad experience with EMODA!!

Hi all! It's such a shame that my first proper post of 2013 will be a negative post, but I feel like I must speak up about my horrible first (indirect) experience with Emoda!

My friend was visiting Tokyo at the beginning of Jan and picked up some Emoda stuff for me from the Shibuya109 store. It was during the 5 days Shibuya sale so it was utter pandemonium inside the store. He managed to grab the last sizes of two pairs of shoes and a coat for me. I'm so disappointed at Emoda at this point,  I don't even want to post pictures of the other Emoda items I got.

Below are some photos he sent me from Tokyo and I was sooo happy and excited!! My first Emoda items from the Shibua109 store!

A week later he came back and passed them to me and guess what I discovered?!?!

The black pumps I bought, one of the shoe was a size S and the other shoe was a size M! 

I was sooo mad! How can the SA make a mistake like that? It doesn't matter how busy they were!

I asked my friend in Tokyo to call the Emoda store for me. They were waiting for my call. They said I had to courier the shoes back with the receipt for an exchange! 

Well there was no way I'm going to pay for courier for the shoes to go back and forth! Luckily my best friend could fit the S size and she was happy to buy the shoes. So I asked my friend in Tokyo to go buy the other S and M pair from Emoda.

Now.. this is the the part that made me soo angry and disappointed at the Emoda service...

My friend tried to ask for a discount. The SA apparently gave a sincere apology but refused to give ANY discount! I had to pay FULL price for the second pair even though I'm buying another pair of shoes because of their mistake!!!

I even got the original pair for 10% off since it was bought during the Shibuya 109 sale! And these shoes are not cheap!! The price is 11,860yen (~135AUD)! I mean, the least they could've offered was a novelty item or something! And on top of that, I had to pay 4000yen (~50aud) to courier the shoes to Australia!

I tried to send a message via the Emoda website and I left the following message on Ena Matsumoto's blog and tried to send her a message too.

I basically told her my story and how disappointed I was at the Emoda service.

• エナさんへ、

  オーストラリアからのemodaファンです。

  ２０１３年１月２日にemoda、Shibuya１０９店にて初めてのお買い上げさせて頂きました。知り合いが東京に旅行していたので、私の変わりにemodaでカバープレートヒールパンプすを購入してもらいました。

  ですが、オーストラリアまで知り合いが持ち帰ってきてくれた新しいパンプスを開けたら片方ずつ、サイズSとサイズMが入っていたことに気づきました。店員さんがこんなミスを起こしたことがすごい残念です。特に海外に住んでいるため、すぐに返品して頂くことすらできないので、とても不可解です。

  知り合いにまた渋谷109店にお問い合わせして頂いた結果、一度靴を返品するために日本まで送り返して欲しいと店員の方に言われました。ですが、海外への送料はとても高いので知り合いが同じ靴を欲しいと言ってくれたので、残されていたサイズSとサイズMの同じパンプスを購入することにしました。

  このときに、店員のミスのお詫びに割引、またはノベルティーを要求したところ、お断りされました。

  店員のミスなのに、こちらで出来る限り早い解決法を案じたものの店員の態度にとても不可解な気持ちになりました。お詫びになにもしてくれないのはなぜでしょうか？

  私はemodaがとても大好きで、いつもチェックをしているのですが、お店の店員さんの接客の仕方に納得いきません。とてもがっかりです。私が日本のお客でないのが原因なのか知りませんが、どこのお客でも同じ対応をしてくれると信じています。

  下にミスを起こした店員さんと伝票番号を記入しておきます。
  何かの解決法をお待ちしてます。

  伝票番号：125155
  販売員：０２４５６　白樫　良太
  販売日：　１３年１月二日　２０：０９：０８

  
  

  And it was ignored!!!!

  I mean.. I really have nothing against the brand - the quality of the items were great and of course I love their style so so much. But I am thoroughly disappointed at the service! I've always loved shopping in Japan because the Japanese customer service is always impeccable! But this is just shocking!! Even the service in Australia isn't this bad! If they made such a big mistake like this, I am pretty sure I would be offered some kind of compensation! 

  I just don't think I can feel the same love for Emoda any more after this horrible experience. I was really looking forward to buying a LOT of Emoda when I visit Tokyo next month.. but now I'm starting to look into other Japanese brands such as Gyda, MURUA and Rienda. It's hard to respect a brand that cares that little about their customers. 

  I am in such a dilemma though, because I still love their clothes so much. My Japanese friends that heard this story were all so shocked and angry! They are all sworn off Emoda now =/