October, 2009
Komatsu is a kid with a great music talent and a special hability to play video game music, specially the music in Ghosts ‘n Goblins, Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. Japanese people love the video game series Dragon Quest which is almost unknown outside of Japan, but here is even more popular than Final Fantasy. [...]
The Otamatone is a new musical instrument/gadget created by MaywaDenki that was presented in the last Tokyo Game Show at the end of September. Basically, it is kind of like a theremin but with buttons and… a mouth! In this last video one of the employees of the company that has created the Otamatone explains [...]
A new sushi place has recently opened near my house. I share with you a couple of pictures of the set menu I ordered the other day. The sushi set was 1,100 yen (around 8 euro/12 dollar).
During last years Japan has kind of lost track in the consumer electronics market; Korean and Chinese brands have eaten a big chunk of the market share which before was dominated worldwide by Japanese companies. On the other hand, in the automobile industry Japan has become the undisputed world leader. In the automobile world the [...]
This is the ending scene of the second episode of an anime series called Sora no Otoshimono. In it more than a minute of flying panties is shown and soon thereafter some random planes flying. It is something really stupid/weird but I think the final result looks kind of good. I am usually bored of [...]
A co-worker sent me this picture, she was laughing her ass off. At first glance, it seems like a kid with a supercool sweater with a Japanese character. The problem is that the character 痔 means “hemorrhoid” in Japanese. Probably the designer confused the character 侍, which means “samurai” and is pronounced “ji”, with the [...]
Darren Tayler, also known as Professor Splash, has recently been to Japan to break his own record by jumping from 10 meters and 83 centimeters in a swimming pool of only 30 centimeters of water: Video by japanprobe.
As I have been in Spain for the last two weeks, I missed the presentation of one of the most anticipated iPhone applications. I am talking about the Sekai Camera, an augmented reality application developed in Tokyo which allows users to read and add information to objects, locations, buildings or any other thing in the [...]
