IBM and Xing Create a Wireless Karaoke Device
I love to play karaoke. I have a hard time finding anyone who is willing to play with me, so half the time I play alone at home. It looks like IBM has teamed up with Xing to create a small wireless karaoke machine that has access to thousands of songs.
Unlike the karaoke bar standbys, you would no longer have to have a huge karaoke song book and punch in a code to play. Instead you merely browse the lists on the touch screen and choose the song you want. It looks like this isn’t the first of its kind in Japan, here is another wireless karaoke machine: 
The Google translation isn’t much better than just trying to read the Japanese, but it does show what the older versions of the Kiyoku NAVI looked like. It included games in addition to the karaoke play.
There are so many cool things that are being created in Japan that just aren’t released here. I wonder if this new IBM and Xing collaboration will result in more things being released here in the U.S.A. or if it will just go back to Japan and we’ll never see it.