I saw an ad recently for an importer of laptops from Japan. This seems like a good idea. It's kinda cool that different countries have different stuff, but it's even more cool that people occasionally get there hands on that stuff in countries for which it was never intended. I lost the ad so I was trying to find that store online. Then I figured I could just go to some Japanese websites and navigate via the pictures. Amazon.co.jp didn't have enough pictures for me to figure out where the computers were. I don't think they sell computers there actually (though they had an entire category of game systems). I decided to check out Sony Style in Japan. Whoa. They have lots of pictures so the site is easy to navigate without knowing a word of Japanese (indeed, not even being able to see half the words because I never installed the Japanese language pack). Most of the inventory is the same as that in the US, but now and then they have some crazy things that you'd just never see here. Check out this laptop that appears also to be a video camera. There's even a demo in flash which features thought bubbles with Japanese text - fun to make up your own story to go with the pictures.