| Cellphone radio control toy cars are displayed at a toy fair in Tokyo June 11, 2003. Japanese Toy maker Takara Co and videogame producer Konami Corp have developed remote control technology for their toy cars. | Once it was just a humble cellphone. Then it offered e-mail, games, music, became a camera and later a video camera.
And now, young Japanese for whom the mobile phone has increasingly become the center of their universe have something new -- it can be the remote control for their toy car.Japanese toy maker Takara Co and videogame producer Konami Corp have developed such a new technology. With Takara's version a small transmission unit is plugged into the phone and users steer their car by pushing the key pad. Consumers using Konami's offering, developed with electronics giant NEC Corp, download software that enables certain handsets to control the cars using infra-red transmitters. "Our miniature toy cars date back to the 1980s and when we were looking at ways to maintain the interest of customers now in their twenties and thirties, it was natural to turn to their best buddy -- the cellphone," Takara spokeswoman Terumi Endo said.
(Agencies) | 手机最初的用途单一。后来手机的用途发展到可以接受电子邮件、玩游戏、听音乐、拍照、甚至录像。 手机已经日益成为日本年轻一代的生活焦点。如今,他们有了新成员--可以用作遥控玩具汽车的手机。 日本玩具制造商Takara公司和电玩游戏制造商Konami公司都已经开发出这项新技术了。 Takara公司开发的手机是将一个小小的传感器插在手机上,然后使用者只要拨键盘就可以遥控玩具汽车了。 而Konami公司研制的手机,则是同日本电器巨头NEC公司共同合作的结晶。只要下载相应的软件到手机上,就可以通过红外线变送器遥控玩具汽车了。 Takara公司发言人辉实延藤说�quot;我们从20世纪80年代就开始研制微型玩具汽车。我们在考虑如何留住二三十岁这个年龄段顾客兴趣的时候,就自然而然想到求助于他们最亲密的伙伴--手机。"
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