Telefork Merges Phones with Dinner

Japanese innovation in telephony is clearly ahead of the rest of the world, but did you know about the coming convergence between phones and silverware that was predicted years ago? Tsubame-Sanjo station in Niigata prefecture is home to an early prototype .

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In case you can’t tell, the rest of the final sentence should say “a knife”. Get ready world.

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Michael is CEO and Co-Founder of the CScout Japan trends and innovation consultancy.