Japan medics bring high-tech fixes to Philippines typhoon (via AFP)
Japanese medics working to help victims of the Philippines typhoon have deployed wireless mobile X-ray kits using tablet computers, a world first in a disaster zone, a team spokesman said Saturday. The technology, which was developed after the huge…
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Add Haduken-ing to your proof sheet that Japan is the internet of real life. Around the future-forward Pacific nation, in addition to driving giant fembots in restaurants, Japanese folks, mostly school girls, are re-enacting explosive gestures from the billion dollar selling Street Figher games.
Americans love big things including cellphones. But will we love the world’s smallest and lightest cellphone? Sold in Japan only, the Phone Strap 2 is the sequel to the original Phone Strap which was released some time two years ago.
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Is this the inspiration behind Slurrm, the toxic soda feaured on Futurama? It could be but chances are its not. Called megalobulimus maximus, the giant snail is certainly huge, fleshy, creepy and could be a superstar of weird Japanese porn.
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Theres so much to love about Japan and most it can be found above.
About an hour ago artist and designer Kaws announced on Instagram the dissolution of Original Fake, the store and line he created with Japanese toy powerhouse Medicom. The announcement came a few days after the sought after artist, born Brian Donnelly, posted images of his latest Companion Boba Fett, scheduled for sale only in Japan at the Original Fake store on January 26th.
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Japanese artist Ryosuke Fukusada created a working wooden light bulb by designing an extremely thin wooden shell that wraps around an LED light. Welcome to the future, baby! Read the rest of this entry »
Pac-Man is 32 but he doesn’t look a day over 30! The lovable character from the 8 bit game by the same name was released in 1980 by a Japanese company who tried to take on Space Invaders, the reigning title at the time, publishing Pac-Man as Pakkuman, a round, mobile yellow being who loves to eat pellets and ghosts! They won! Read the rest of this entry »
A tea-cup and saucer used once by Lady Gaga sold for $75K on Sunday at auction in Japan, reports AP. Gaga sipped from the tea-cup at a news conference last June in Tokyo, three months after parts of the island was devastated after an earthquake and tsunami.
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