HP Introduces Harajuku Style Camera

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HP has capitalized on the popularity of Gwen Stefani’s fixation with Japanese Harajuku culture (fad?) and the Harajuku-styled girls that follow her around everywhere she goes by offering the special edition Photosmart R607 Harajuku Lovers Digital Camera by Gwen Stefani. It’s the usual Americanization of a micro-culture that some say isn’t even a culture at all. Tian has more on the whole Harajuku thing here.

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