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Akiba PC Hot Line reported about a handbill of Ita-Laptop PC, "Neon PC 401SW-M," so I went to TWOTOP Akihabara to check it up. The real product of Ita-laptop PC, "Neon PC 401SW-M" (PDF) was displayed. On top of the PC, an illustration of a mascot character of Nipponbashi, Osaka, Neon was printed, and the Ita-PC will be sold only at Nipponbashi, Osaka.

Iosys Akiba Alley Branch (former Iosys Akihabara Branch) sold a USB mouse that has “same as duh principle?” and that does vibrate, MUS-UKT34W at 500yen. That was a USB mouse that has凹凸 and vibrates. The catchphrase was “exciting.” POP at Iosys Akiba Alley Branch was “same as duh principle?” “Ah, Ahhhhh! Great!” and “can’t wait until the night～!”

“PT1” by Earth Soft was introduced in Netrun: “able to copy or edit a recorded doga (movie) however you like!,” “let’s record digital TV,” etc. Hermitage Akihabara wrote on February 26th: “the shipment in March will likely be the last shipment.” On the 10th, a clerk at Akibaoo 6th Branch had a panel of “finished producing it. This is the last chance.”

" Vocaloid 2 Character Vocal Series 03 Megurine Luka " was released on the 30th, and on the next day, the 31st, Asobit Game City sold the all Vocaloid- Miku Hatsune, Rin & Len Kagamine, and Luka Megurine together and played demo. As I remember, an original song of Miku Hatsune took about a month to be played at a store from the release day, but an original song of "Luka Megurine" was played on the next day from its release.

The third series of Vocaloid, " Vocaloid 2 Character Vocal Series 03 Megurine Luka " was released on the 30th. According to its product information, "she is cool and sings in a husky voice! A bilingual vocal." The voice is by a voice actress, Yu Asagawa, who has done voices of "Rider" in Fate/stay night, "Chou'un Shiryuu" in Ikki Tousen, etc. POP in Akiba were "sexy and cool," "Maguro," "huge boobs," etc.

Due to the "festival of large-scale inferior goods," Hard Disk of Seagate was stopped selling at parts shops in Akiba on the 19th (Monday). But the Hard Disk of Seagate announced on the 22nd that "there is no problem with Seagate HDD sold by CFD." Because of that!?, stores started to sell it again. At parts shops, POP of 1TB model or 1.5TB model of Seagate was out.

Hard disk of Seagate has "a possibility not to be able to access due to the bug of firmware. It may happened on the 4 HDD products including Barracuda 7200.11 ( PC Watch)." Henkutsu-san even wrote " festival of large-scale inferior goods." Main parts shops in Akiba cancelled to sell hard disk of Seagate.

A digital tuner board, " PT1 " by Earth Soft was sold at midnight sale before; It was the first time for a video capture to have a midnight sale . PT1 was really popular that for five PT1, about 150 people gathered . When Sangatsu Usagi 2nd Branch released PT1 on the 23rd (Sunday), people were lining up in order to get it, but from the 25th (Tuesday)? to the 26th (Wednesday), "PT1" was in the show case, and the store sold it just like if it were a regular product.

About a year ago, 1TB HDD was " the age of 1T (Tera) has come… Less than 30,000yen ," but as Akiba PC Hot Line reported in " 1TB HDD was sold at less than 9,000yen at some stores ," some stores priced Western Digital 1TB HDD between eight and nine thousand yen, and at T-Zone, POP of "Wow! Reasonable!" was out.

From the 2nd (?), Iosys Akihabara started to sell "the most Moe used PC," and POP wrote "PC of Randoseru" & "compact body." It is " Dell Optiplex SX270 15in" and since the body of the PC is at the back of the monitor, it looks like a Randoseru. With the POP, a photo of Rin Konoe figure from "Kodomo no Jikan" was there.

I reported about a digital tuner board, " PT1 " by Earth Soft sold at the midnight sale that for five PT1, about 150 people gathered . And for that PT1, Sangatsu Usagi 1st Branch started to take preorders for limited amount of PT1 that will be released within this year. Probably because the information of Sangatsu Usagi started taking preorders was written on 2-channel, some people who wore suits made preorders for PT1 one by one. It'll be sold as the product arrives at the store.

PT1 by Earth Soft is a digital tuner board. It has 2 systems for digital terrestrial TV tuner (ISDB-T) and two systems for BS digital tuner (ISDB-S)- the total of 4 systems of tuners. At the midnight sale held at Sangatsu Usagi 2nd Branch, more than 150 people gathered for five PT1. I got DUH "PT1," so I'm gonna give that one for one of the readers who has established blog/home page for free.

A digital tuner board, "PT1" (for PC) by Earth Soft was released on the 23rd. This is the product that "corresponds to both Digital Terrestrial Television and BS Digital with double tuners. What a great product (by Rokuganingenno-miro-san )." Only Sangatsu Usagi 1st Branch sold it. But, since Sangatsu Usagi took preorders , only 5 "PT1" were left for customers who have not made preorders. And those 5 will be released on the 25th at midnight sale.

Geisha Tokyo Entertainment released AR figure ARis. According to its figure's information , "the first in the world! The figure that uses AR ( Augmented Reality )!" "It is the first AR entertainment software (NOT R-18) in the world! A virtual figure appears into the real world!" Sukisuki-daisuki-san said "a dangerous doll of the next generation, augmented reality type of doll has finally appeared!"

PT1 by Earth Soft is "a PCI digital tuner board for PC. It lets us record all the Digital Terrestrial Television, BS Digital and CS Digital Hi-Vision AT THE SAME TIME. Encryption reminds the same, so please decode by yourself… (by Parade-x-parade-san)." For the first shipment, 200 of PT1 will be released. Sangatsu Usagi 1st Branch said "we have no idea how many PT1 our store will get! So, asking clerks doesn't do anything at all!"

Sangatsu Usagi started taking preorders of " PT1" by Earth Soft on the 14th. But, the server (for its online store) was broken, and the store stopped taking preorders in about an hour. PT1 is, according to Parade-x-parade-san, "a digital tuner board for PC. It lets us record all the Digital Terrestrial Television, BS Digital and CS Digital Hi-Vision AT THE SAME TIME. Encryption reminds the same, so please decode by yourself…"

As Akiba PC Hot Line and other websites have reported, stores in Akihabara started showing demo of SSD 80GB X25-M Mainstream made by Intel. On the 14th, Clevery Internet Branch also played demo by using HDD Benchmark Software. Yamada-kun became like Char and said "oh god! SSD of Intel is a spook, isn't it!"

Apple Computer announced thinner and longer new iPod nano and other products on the 9th (in the U.S. time), and new iPod nano (8G model), iPod shuffle, and iPod classic were released on the 10th in Japan. When I went around Akiba on the 10th, Sofmap MAC Branch put a panel of "new model is displaying at stores," and both male and female customers were checking new iPod nano out. The total number of colors displayed at a store was eight like Yukkuri T-shirt.

Iosys Akihabara Branch sold fanless & zero spindle secondhand PC, "DNRH-002." The main speck were CeleronM 1.5GHz, Memory512MB, Flash Disk, 1GB, 100Baseｘ1, and fins are around the whole body (for releasing the heat). The price was 12,800yen. POP said "really small! Really quiet! Really cheap! It's a nice and all-round rarity!" The store still had some stocks.

Pictures below are different kinds of pictures shown on screens of both new and second hand PCs sold at Akihabara. I reported before that there was a store that showed a video of shaking boobs under clothes or " A-U-U –Ineine" on PCs sold at stores. This time, I saw Begita x Abe-san on a secondhand PC screen- I don't know if the store wanted to sell the PC or not…

An event held by Intel, " Intel in Akiba 2008 Summer " started from the 3rd in Akihabara. Akiba PC Hot Line reported about the event: "playing the demo of each company's Centrino 2 Laptop, PC that has P45, and displaying Mini-ITX Mother Board that has un-published CPU." There was a PC with a touch panel display; it was playing " Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu."

Sarashiru-san reported that "MonsterTV HDUS" can be used like Friio when you touch a patch on a driver of a USB Digital Terrestrial Television Tuner (DTTV). Since this information became a hot topic, there was an announcement that there should be no more shipment of the product. But on the 31st, some stores were selling it. Akibaoh Zero Branch also sold it- even though at the premium price, it was sold out in a second.

Sellsta 3rd Branch sold something looked like "Taito Type X2" Arcade System Board. Since it had a sticker of "Machideko W," it maybe the "Machideko" without the box. "Machideko" is a machine to make cute and fashionable pictures for cell phones. The price is 49,800yen, and since it was on sale only for a certain time, the store gave a discount of 5,000yen.

An adult game "Oppai (boobs) Life" by Blue Gale will be released on the 21st, and its panel was at Sofmap AM Branch, saying Oppai science, "Oppai Life," will be released! We do not have enough Oppai in Japan." The opening page says "it's not late yet! You can study about Oppai from the beginning." The panel looks like for a magazine.

There is a rumor that Mr. Masashi Tashiro, who was arrested in 2004 for carrying drugs (2g=0.0044lb of Stimulant drug & 4g=0.0088lb of weed) & having a knife in his car (also he was arrested before that for taking picture of inside a lady's skirt as well as peeping into a bathroom for women), would come out of jail on February 14th; he, however, didn't come out on the 14th. Because of the rumor that he may come out from jail in February, Twotop Akihabara Branch has done a celebration for coming back of a "legend cameraman" with a picture of a man who looks like Mr. Masashi Tashiro. It's POP was around in the store.

Heiwaboke-san introduced a picture (video) through 2-channel (on the internet), saying it's the best! Big apples are shaking under clothing!!! This must be prohibited to under 18 years old. A line of boobs shows clearly, but she is really calm, which is really erotic. The boobs are actually amazing. This demo was playing at used PC Store, Sellsta-R 3rd Branch.