A pair of Japanese schoolgirls primp their hair before a long mirror, preparing for the perfect shot. But they are not taking a smartphone selfie, they are using a "purikura" photo booth. Old-style ...

At this point in the game, we all kind of know that advertisements and magazine editorials are usually Photoshopped before going to print, but it's still a surprise when we realize people are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A biracial Black and Asian TikTok user living in Tokyo took to social media after a purikura photo booth made her look as light as ...

Japanese purikura photo booths, which produce selfies that you can decorate and print out, predate Snapchat filters by at least a decade. At about $3.50 a pop, they are still attracting hordes of ...

Gone are the days where we were all satisfied with just a sizable collection of filters in our camera app. As users get more sophisticated and creative with their phone cameras, many are demanding ...

3D printing can be used for everything from building parts for rocket ships to printing dinosaur bones, but a company in Japan will soon be using the technology for something a bit more ordinary: to ...

The old-fashioned photo booth shouldn’t even exist in an age of Snapchat and Instagram. Why pay for grainy mugshot-style selfies with questionable lighting when you can filter, fade and tilt-shift ...