July, 2008
This is the third part of my Sleeping Japanese series. If you are new and you don’t have any idea what is this all about check the previous posts about Sleeping Japanese: Japanese Sleeping – 2 Japanese Sleeping Japanese Sleeping Remix These are the new pictures I took from January 2008 until last week. I [...]
The Washington Post put together some impressive Tokyo panoramas in this site. I recommend using the “Full View” option, is pretty impressive. These are some screen captures I did while using the panoramas.
Danny knows that I like Ghost in the Shell and he gave me the latest tachikoma figure made by GoodSmile. This is how a tachikoma looks like in the anime: And this is how my tachikoma looks like, cool! The legs are metallic and robust. Tachikoma is a police robot with arachnid anatomy. It has [...]
These last days I’m noticing LOTS of extra security measures in Tokyo, even though the G8 summit is in Hokkaido (1.000 km away from Tokyo). I’ve seen many police, some streets with extra security controls, and even some areas in Shibuya and Shinjuku where traffic was cut for some reason. Here there are two posters [...]
Asahi, the biggest beer brewing company in Japan, that we already know because they made The Personal Beer Robot (PBP) a while ago, has created a more advanced robot that is able to do: Pretty amazing! Found at Reghardware.
These shops are specialized in cleaning and massaging your ears, I’ve never seen anything similar. One of the incentives is that the client can choose the girl who cleans your ears. One hour cleaning is 4.500 yen (27 euros) and you can find all their shops here, just in case you feel like something different [...]
I found this product in this online shop. Would you use it?
These shelves with books can be found in some (very few) train stations in Tokyo. You are supposed to take a book, read it and return it. Nobody registers who takes which book. In the Spanish version of this post some people talk about how this system was introduced in some stations in Spain but [...]
