Niconico user A0 invented an alarm system for guys who tend to forget to zip up their fly, named “Chakku Shimewasure Boushi Debaisu”(device to prevent from forgetting to close your fly). http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/nm16976797 (The first one minutes explains how to make it, the demo starts around 1:00.) By this, you will notice that your fly is… Continue reading Your Fly Can’t Be Opened – Open Zipper Alert System
Category: Joke
Plug-in Cat For Smartphone Is Under Development
When Japanese blogger @nekomura_otako posted her rough sketch of this Smartphone accessory idea on Twitter. http://twitpic.com/9bnn03 “I would like to have cat-shaped earphone-jack parts like this.” She did not expect that so many people liked and wanted it. But the Twitter buzz promptly found a company who offers to make it production. The mock-ups have… Continue reading Plug-in Cat For Smartphone Is Under Development
Shiri, not Siri
Shiri is better spelling for buttocks in Japanese. Apple's Siri is Apple's buttocks in Japan | Technically Incorrect – CNET News
Sadako The Ring Memorial Pitch
Sadako, from the popular Japanese horror movie Ring, threw the opening pitch at Tokyo Dome on Hokkaido Nippon-ham Fighters vs Chiba Lotte Marines on April 25th. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOB9kZiOD50 A photo after the ceremony, https://twitter.com/#!/hochi_baseball/status/195085224986677248 More photos on Nikkan Sports [J], Sanspo [J]
Circuit Girl
Kiban Shoujo(Circuit Girl) is an FPGA circuit board by coterie hardware circle Respon [J]. According to their site, all line-patterns have meanings as circuit and really works as a CPU. via Akiba PC Hotline [J]
[Video] Magical Dice Always Gives 6
Showed on Nico Nico Douga http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17428052 via Internet Watch
Ameba Pico’s English Is Too Difficult
A Japanese user, who might be a big fan of CyberAgent’s popular virtual avatar world Ameba Pigg, asked a question [J] on Yahoo! Chiebukuro (=Yahoo! Answers in Japan) about his playing Ameba Pico, an English version of Ameba Pigg. I’m playing Ameba Pico but totally lost as I can not understand the following English. Please… Continue reading Ameba Pico’s English Is Too Difficult
Dole Japan Offers Special Bananas Listened AKB48 For Ripening At Tokyo Marathon 2012
2012 version of annual Tokyo Marathon will be held on February 26, with 36,000 runners who luckily win the lottery from 283,988 applicants. At the marathon, one of the official supplier Dole Japan is going to provide 96,000 “lucky” bananas, named “Goku Sen”(Extremely Selected) [J], which will be chosen from its over 100 kind of… Continue reading Dole Japan Offers Special Bananas Listened AKB48 For Ripening At Tokyo Marathon 2012
Aso-city Mayor Sings AKB Song At Coming-of-Age Day Celebration
Every year on the coming-of-age national holiday, when people celebrate reaching 20 years old, 2-channelers criticize youthful escapades, such like too drunk and/or violent behavior on a ceremony, reported on media. But this local mayor of Aso-city, Yoshioki Satoh went wilder than 20-yo first drunkers. He sang Masaharu Fukuyama and AKB48 songs in front of… Continue reading Aso-city Mayor Sings AKB Song At Coming-of-Age Day Celebration
Comic Market Waiting-People Time-Lapse Video
Japanese discipline was showed after the Eastern Japan Disaster 3/11 last year. And it is not only at earthquake. The video by a Nico Nico Douga user munyaka is a time-lapse animation on the third day morning of the massive self-publishers’ comic conference Comic Market 81(Comike81), December 31, 2011. http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16589379 The video started around 00:50,… Continue reading Comic Market Waiting-People Time-Lapse Video