Tag: Japanese
Interactive Robot Torso: Now You Can Hug Yourself
Hugs are an important part of good health. You know that, right? Hugs help reduce stress, they lower blood pressure, and they even slow down aging. It's true! In this hug article I wrote back in 2010, I listed a bunch of benefits that hugging gives us.
Hugs flow in abundance in social media, and ...
Photography: Squished Up Faces On The Tokyo Train
We have a train here in Atlanta called Marta. Marta stands for Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. It's awesome because for about two bucks, you can get anywhere in the city without having to drive in traffic. Sometimes when I get on Marta it's crowded, like during rush hour, but for the m ...
Japanese Design: Deliciously Realistic Unagi iPhone Cover
As we pointed out in the recent article entitled How To Pimp Your Smartphone Celebrity Style, $497 million dollars were spent on phone accessories in the United States in the past 9 months. Phone accessories are big business, and a large percentage of that is in cases and covers.
I always admire ...
Science: Preserved Fish Become Colorful Art Pieces
This is creepy cool. If you like your art mixed with a splash of science and imagination, you are going to love this. I'm surprised I haven't seen this art before today because it's fabulous. We've written about biology as it relates to art before. The combination of science and art is always fascin ...
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Japan: A Nation Determined To Recover [20 Surreal Pics]
It's hard to believe it's been three months since the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan. The heartbreak continues, and there are still hundreds of bodies that are unaccounted for. Experts say that approximately 28,000 people either died or are still missing as a result of this tragedy.
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Emergency Toilet Design Created For People In Japan
As of today, it's been three months since the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan. We don't see as many bloggers writing about it anymore, and the articles being spread around in social media are becoming few and far between. However, that doesn't mean everything is okay in Japan now.
Re ...
Pixel 8-Bit Fashions: For Old School Geek Divas
Do you miss the 8-bit days of the '80s? Do you wish you had a way to take memories of Super Mario with you everywhere you go? Designer Kunihiko Morinage of the design company Anrealage found a way to make it happen for all us old school geek girls.
Earlier this month at Tokyo's Japan Fashion Week ...
Augmented Body: Wear Cat Ears Controlled By Brain Waves
Just when I thought I would never see any crazy inventions from Japan that could ever top what I've already seen and written about before, I stumbled across these cat ears. As with most Japanese inventions, if you can get passed the initial feeling of being disturbed, it's actually fascinating.
T ...
Tweets From Japan: Shining Hope Into The Darkness
It seems like I've started dozens of articles with this same sentence: I love Twitter. However, each day I find more reasons why Twitter is such a fabulous place to hang out. Whenever there are tragedies happening around the world, I can always find some sort of peace and comfort on Twitter. Have yo ...
Google Launches People Finder App To Help Those In Japan
To say that the recent earthquake in Japan is devastating doesn't even begin to capture the magnitude of this tragedy. I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like to cope with such an event, and my heart goes out to every person and animal that has been affected.
One thing they keep talki ...
A Breakfast For Lovers: Heart-Shaped Egg Design
Even though Valentine's Day this year has come and gone, there are still creative love and heart designs popping up all over the Internet. When you think about it, it makes sense. We shouldn't limit ourselves to expressing our love to people we care about on just one day of the year. I've seen m ...
LED Smiles: Turn Your Teeth Into a Mouthful of Technology
I remember last month when I wrote about these LED eyelashes because they were wild and wacky, and you know how much I love the stuff that makes you go, "Whaaaaaaat?" Well here we go again with another piece of the puzzle...
In the old days, when we wanted to coordinate what we were wearing, we ...
The Ultimate Bad Breath Detector
I'm a complete fanatic about having fresh breath. I eat mints like they were my last meal, and I keep a toothbrush and toothpaste in my car. You can never be too sure, right? To me, there is almost nothing worse in a guy than disgusting breath (ok, I can think of one or two things worse, but bad ...
Get Ready To Gag: Hello Kitty Theme Park Opens In Japan
Let's get something straight; I only like Hello Kitty when she is in the form of socks, and on my sexy smart friend @krystynchong (1st picture below). Any other time, she pretty much makes me gag.
In the spirit of giving you something to giggle about (or gag about) today, I thought I would share ...
Public Sleeping In Japan [10 Photos]
You've heard about how, in Japan, it's okay to sleep in public places, right? I first heard about this several months ago, but I didn't believe it. Since then I've heard more and more people talk about it.
A friend of mine told me that his friend, who just got back from Japan, fell asleep at th ...