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« Previous Entries Next Entries »It’s a Good Week to be Japanese
Monday, June 4th, 2007That’s too bad. The past week had been going so well for Japan. First, Miss Japan, Riyo Mori, won the Miss Universe crown, through sheer force of will, charm, and wit.
Charm.
Wit.
Then, Fortune magazine featured the Nintendo Wii on its cover for being more effective at keeping people in [...]
San Jose Super-Con 2007: Robotech Scoops
Monday, June 4th, 2007From Kevin of Harmony Gold, the company that owns the rights to the Robotech franchise:
Live-Action Robotech Movie A couple of weeks ago, Kevin received an unsolicited offer for the rights to the Robotech live-action movie. This isn’t the first offer he’s received. A Robotech film would easily cost $100M+, so a big [...]
Super - Flat Panel Speakers from Japan
Thursday, May 24th, 2007Do you think that the Japanese bother to look up from the 157 channels of TV on their Hello Kitty cell phones long enough to laugh at us Americans and our bass-ackwards consumer technology? We think it’s s-o-o-o-o cutting edge to use our cell phones to send email and surf rudimentary Web sites. Meanwhile, they’re [...]
Paper Models of Star Wars Ships
Monday, April 30th, 2007Once again, an industrious nerd has come through with the goods. A Japanese fellow has designed and built a set of elaborate, sci-fi-themed paper models, including a Y-Wing Fighter, a Tie Fighter, the Millennium Falcon, a Star Destroyer, a Sandcrawler (um, point?), an AT-AT, a Borg cube, the Enterprise, the Delorean from Back to [...]
WonderCon: Super Nerds Wear the Yoda Backpack
Friday, April 27th, 2007Ok, this is almost two months late, but it’s worth sharing. Core77 Design Blog recently highlighted the Yoda Backpack. Because, hey, if anything is worth bringing attention to, it’s 1) celebrity crotch shots, and 2) silly, silly backpacks.
The Yoda Backback. Not intended for use as an actual backpack.
There are only two legitimate [...]
Japanese superheroes wear no pants. And play the guitar. With poo.
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007Now, I don’t want to detract from Japan’s obvious mastery of mass-producing highly-reliable cars, but you’d think that a country that produces so much weird shit could put a little more flair into their automobiles. I mean, have you ever heard someone call a Toyota “sexy” and then not hit them over the head [...]
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