So there are ways to wrap up trips and there are ways to wrap... up... trips. After four weeks of Engadget souls roaming the trains of Tokyo for TGS and CEATEC, we finally closed things out with a massive reader meetup with Engadget Japan. About 500 rabid (but very friendly) Engadget Japan fans lined up in Roppongi to meet the editors and see some mind-boggling, sometimes hysterical, and always interesting presentations. Thanks to Maywa Denki for his artistic impressions of Engadget readers (and the amazing Otamatone musical...thing). Also big ups to Samo Dengi (composer of music for Tekken), Cerevo, Acer, Microsoft, and Sony. But most of all, thanks to our amazing readers world-round, and thank you Japan! We are humbled, honored, and oh, so tired. See you next year! Rainen mata oaishimashooo! Video of the event after the break (taken on a 3G Android device, btw!).
They packed 350+ people in a venue that should be limited to 200 or 250 max. For a while I thought I was on the rush hour train. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk2R_mqV4ts
Engadget, please pick a larger place than Super-Deluxe the next time you visit.
We didn't shoot that - just sharing what a cool reader did with an unusual device. We have some full-HD video highlights we shot that will be made available at next week's Engadget Show, so stay tuned.
It was very packed, hot and sweaty....quality finger food sized bites to eat, one free drink at the bar, 700 Yen for each drink afterwards, nice parting gift of Engadget decal, AOL decal, and a Engadget Laser Pointer/USB drive pen thinggy....The room demographics were 95% Japanese, 5% Foreigners. I'd say 6-7% female. 80% of the room were rockin Iphones. All in all Engadget delivered a nice meetup. Too bad i couldn't understand must of the presentations ;)
Wow sounds a bit different from last time in 2007 when I was there for the meetup. Quite a few less people, open bar, google HQ in shibuya! Anyway, had a great time then, and wish I was still there so I could've made this too. Got to see ryan block just before he went off to start work with peter too.
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posted Oct 15th 2009 11:41PM
I wanted to be there... =(
Bloated Windows XP FTW! Wakata!!
Those Japanese and their invisible chairs.
President Chavez says in US we have invisible jets, so invisible chairs is a walk in the park.
I so wanted to be there :(
They packed 350+ people in a venue that should be limited to 200 or 250 max. For a while I thought I was on the rush hour train. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk2R_mqV4ts
Engadget, please pick a larger place than Super-Deluxe the next time you visit.
For a gadget based website, i wouldn't have expected to see video recorded from your mobile phone.
We didn't shoot that - just sharing what a cool reader did with an unusual device. We have some full-HD video highlights we shot that will be made available at next week's Engadget Show, so stay tuned.
It was very packed, hot and sweaty....quality finger food sized bites to eat, one free drink at the bar, 700 Yen for each drink afterwards, nice parting gift of Engadget decal, AOL decal, and a Engadget Laser Pointer/USB drive pen thinggy....The room demographics were 95% Japanese, 5% Foreigners. I'd say 6-7% female. 80% of the room were rockin Iphones. All in all Engadget delivered a nice meetup. Too bad i couldn't understand must of the presentations ;)
Wow sounds a bit different from last time in 2007 when I was there for the meetup. Quite a few less people, open bar, google HQ in shibuya! Anyway, had a great time then, and wish I was still there so I could've made this too. Got to see ryan block just before he went off to start work with peter too.
Whoa man, sweet AOL sticker!
It's windows XP!
Chotto urayamashii... ;)
私も行きたいでした。でも、いそがしすぎる。：（
http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2009/10/video-keromin-and-maywa-denki-perform-duet-at-engadget-party-.html
all those geeks and they managed to shoot such crap video :)
read the reply above hoss. the video on this link was provided by a reader, not the staff.
The keychain drawing at the far right looks like the smiley face space ship in Heavy Metal.
/is ashamed to admit he's seen Heavy Metal
//and was sober when he saw it
///but still likes the soundtrack
Were these photos taken with a RAZR?
There's an Engadget Japan? I just knew now.
Some SUBTITLES would really do some good...
Interesting taskbar layout...
With a taskbar like that, who needs Windows 7?
too bad this wasnt in osaka or i would have been able to go :(
photos from the show. uber late. sorry. http://al.vvvvv.in/test/event/meeting/engadget-vs-1yr-tokyo-anniversary