Archive for the category Various

Salt labyrinths by Motoi Yamamoto

Por kirai el 15 de March de 2010 en Various

Motoi Yamamoto is a Japanese artist that uses salt as the main material to create his artworks. In Asia, salt is a symbol of purification; for example, in Japan small plates with salt are usually placed at the entrance of restaurants to protect them against evil spirits. Salt is also used in Shintoist rituals and [...]

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Doctor Nakamatsu

Por kirai el 03 de March de 2010 en Various

Some months ago I found out about Doctor Nakamatsu, also known as Dr. NakaMats. He is extremely popular in Japan but somehow I had never heard of him before. Yoshiro Nakamatsu is a 81 year old Japanese inventor who holds the world record for number of inventions with over 3,000 patents, more than 3 times [...]

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Walking the dog near Mount Fuji

Por kirai el 26 de February de 2010 en Various

I found this video and pictures very relaxing. The dog is a welsh corgi walking on the frozen waters of lake Yamanaka, near Mount Fuji, some weeks ago. The video makes you wish you were there running or skating next to the cute little dog!

Source: Siro Wan.

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Ghibli Car

Por kirai el 20 de February de 2010 en Various

When we were on our way to the abandoned hospital we bumped into this strange car. It reminded me of the Studio Ghibli artworks. The car design looks like it has just come out from a Hayao Miyazaki movie. The readers of my Spanish blog found out that it is a Nissan S-Cargo and only [...]

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Coffee shop where you pay the coffee of the next client

Por kirai el 10 de February de 2010 en Various

If you go to Ogori coffee shop in Tokyo when you pay you don’t receive what you have ordered, you receive what the client before you ordered and paid! Would you go to a coffee shop where you can’t have what you want but what other client that you don’t know at all ordered? What [...]

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Some random photos

Por kirai el 28 de January de 2010 en Various

Origin Bento shop window. Origin Bento is the biggest bento chain store in Japan. Bento is food prepared in some kind of lunch box. At the beginning I used to like the bento thing but I kind of got tired of it. What is cool about Origin Bento is that you can also “design” your [...]

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Bra that transforms into a golf course

Por kirai el 17 de December de 2009 en Various

The creators of the chopsticks bra and the solar bra surprise us again with a new revolutionary concept that will change the world:

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Manicure machine

Por kirai el 14 de December de 2009 en Various

This machine can paint your nails for an euro and a half ($2) per nail. You introduce the money, select the desired design and you put you fingers two at a time. Fabulous! The problem is that it takes between four and five minutes to paint two nails, so if you want to paint all [...]

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Playing with Pleo

Por kirai el 11 de December de 2009 en Various

The robot dinosaur Pleo, designed by one of the Furby creators, can often be seen lately around Tokyo but I have the feeling that it is not selling very well. Do you know if it’s popular in United States / Europe…?

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Solar panel shop

Por kirai el 09 de December de 2009 en Various

Strolling around with Pablo at the outskirts of Okayama we found this strange shop selling solar panels. It seems that before they used to sell parabolic antennas but, little by little, they have changed their business model and now they install solar panels. It grabbed my attention the interior of the shop, in this [...]

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