I have to really give my hats off to this guy who is dressed up as Jason from Friday the 13th while carving trees with chainsaws from different lengths just to make the Big Daddy character from Bio Shock 2
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Man Chainsaws Trees For BioShock2 Big Daddy Statue
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Thatch in Osaka
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Amazing story about Japanese developers who found a thatch church in tiny village in UK and recreated it in Osaka in a skyscraper!
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Steven Purugganan (born July 30, 1997) is a Filipino-American from Longmeadow, Massachusetts who is a two-time sport stacking world champion. At the 2009 World Sport Stacking Championship held in Denver, Colorado, he successfully defended his world champion title and broke three world records. He broke his own world record in the 3-6-3 with a time of 2.15 seconds.
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Amazing Custom Cars
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Featured on a show in Japan, some Japanese people have completely "pimped" their rides.
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How to make a Papercraft Honda NSX Super GT Racecar
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Back in the 6th century, China's Sui Dynasty introduced papercraft to Japan, part of the countries' free-flowing cultural trade of the time. That became what we know now as origami. Behavioral experts say origami stimulates the interaction between the right and left hemispheres of the brain, and improved nonverbal and verbal intelligence. But can it be a CHEETOS BOREDOM BUSTER for car geeks?
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Summer Chills - Keep Cool with Horror Music
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Looking for an ecological way to cool down in the sickening Tokyo heat? Turn off any air conditioners and electric fans, close all the windows, forget about rubbing any chemical laden, hypothermic inducing skin creams on your body and get ready for the next big discovery straight from the deepest and most secret research laboratories in Japan. I give you: scary music.
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Haneda Airport rickshaw service starts
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ANA has started a Jinrikisha service for passengers at Haneda Airport. The service started yesterday, 16 Aug, 2009 and has already become a popular hit with travelers.
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The Shape for Summer
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This is the shape for summer in water! Hello Kitty water bottles shaped as shapely ladies! Very innovative - only in Japan ? I am sure they would be a great export.
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Some cool shot of the 1/1 scale model RX78 Gundam robot at Odaiba (お台場)
Read more »14 Meter Tall Gundam Float and more Giant Gundam in Odaiba
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This is a short follow-up to my Gundam vid. Here I talk about a 14 meter tall Gundam float made of Japanese paper - washi - that I saw at a festival in Aomori, the "Gundam Gap" in my Japanese Anime experience, my video game experience with Gundam: Federation vs. Zeon, and a little bit more about this Gundam's "secret" potential.
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Giant Gundam Gathers Gawking Geeks
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Embrace your inner geek - in Tokyo a life-size Gundam almost 60 feet tall has been revealed in all its glory. Gundam for those not up on their anime nostalgia was an animated show which started in 1979 about a future where robots or mecha piloted by humans battle for supremacy or something like that (I never saw the show).
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What's in a name?
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We all know the Japanese often use English to give things a veneer of instant cool, but surely giving your country a foreign name for the sake of ‘cool’ is a step too far?
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Nintendo DSi Hits America on April 5 for $170
Nintendo to launch channel for Wii
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Nintendo have announced plans to launch a video channel in 2009 for the Wii console alongside Japanese advertising agency Dentsu. It will initially only be available in Japan starting in the spring but a premium service is likely to launch sometime around mid 2010 in which users will be required to pay for content.
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Terra cotta warrior USB drive
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Life-like replica of the ancient Xi'an warriors that is actually a USB 1.1/2.0 drive available in 1GB-8GB capacity.
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Brewing sake: Day 1
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Last night I got my sake kit in the mail. The kit was about $35. It was pretty easy to get going. I took 1.5 liters of hot tap water and put it in the glass jar with the rice/koji/yeast mixture.
Read more »Japanese website makes your food pics POP
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When I have an interesting or delicious looking dish I like to take a picture of it. Thanks to this new website from Japan your food pics will look even better. The name of the website is OISHIKUN HENKAN, meaning yummy converter.
Read more »Japanese TVCM for the Intel Centrino 2
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Caught this on the TV for the first time this evening and thought it was pretty cool.
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Monodo’s cool Japanese iPod docks
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Japanese firm Monodo’s new STACK iPod docks are very cool and stylish. Instead of the usual plastic or metal docks, they have made them out of natural hardwoods.
Read more »One cool-ass cushion!
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The Suzukaze is an air-conditioned cushion that is designed to keep you slightly elevated on your chair to bring cool air in under you.
Read more »Innovative ways to stay cool in Akihabara
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Some innovative (but a little dumb) ways of staying cool in Akihabara, featuring a maid named Cherry. Watermelons and bananas go well together...!?!
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