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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 the [...]
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 excuses [...]
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 with [...]
Robot Lifts Things, Develops Inferiority Complex
Friday, March 30th, 2007Oh, you poor, robotic sonuvabitch. Lifting is your thing? Seriously? The one robotic thing that you do? Oh, oh, I know! Let’s teach a mouse to like cheese, ’cause that’s never happened before, either! Dude. Don’t you know that walking and humping is where it’s at in robotics today? What’s it like riding in the [...]
Top Ten Videos of American Celebrities Selling Out in Japanese Commericals
Monday, March 26th, 2007Writing about anime got me thinking about the other areas in which the Japanese excel: Producing bleeding-edge electronics devices. Making super-reliable cars. Running from Godzilla. Convincing American celebrities to shill for Japanese products. Regarding the last point, at least in American advertising there’s some sort of branding consistency between the shillers and the products. Beautiful [...]
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