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This reminds me AR-Figure.
http://www.geishatokyo.com/jp/ar-figure/figure.html
They are targeting the same type of customers.
Commented Oct 13, 2009 on Pervy iPhone app lets you look up a girl's skirt at TOKYOMANGO
Pervy iPhone app lets you look up a girl's skirt
This is one of those pervy inventions that is at once brilliant and disturbing — it's an iPhone app that lets you look up the skirts of pretty Japanese women by blowing on or rubbing the screen. Does this encourage train perverts, or does it provide them an outlet that distracts them from doi...
I did ordered. Looking forward to receiving it.
Is that a photo of Karaoke?
Commented Oct 6, 2009 on Last day to order a TokyoMango T-shirt at TOKYOMANGO
Last day to order a TokyoMango T-shirt
Today's your last chance for ordering a limited edition hand-printed TokyoMango t-shirt. Tomorrow morning, I'm going to round up everyone's orders, buy the shirts, print them, and mail them out hopefully by early next week. Get yours here.
It is a sensitive program. Dolphins in Sea World and the like would be having very tough time, although we enjoy them.
The difference between dolphins and tunas is very slight. Tuna (used as Toro) at a sushi bar is getting popular world wide, they cannot be farmed easily. I heard that the number of tuna is getting small due to the world-wide consumption.
A big difference is that dolphins and whales are mammal and smart. Humans eat mammal such as veal and lamb, but they can be farmed.
Commented Sep 12, 2009 on Taiji dolphins freed due to pressure from The Cove at TOKYOMANGO
Taiji dolphins freed due to pressure from The Cove
I just got this information from the Oceanic Preservation Society, the organization behind the documentary The Cove about the dolphin killings in Taiji:Fishermen in Taiji, Japan will be releasing captured dolphins this week in response to international outcry following the award-winning film “The...
I have ordered your book at amazon.com. Looking forward to being delivered.
Commented Apr 10, 2009 on Buy my book, Urawaza, on its 1-year anniversary at TOKYOMANGO
Buy my book, Urawaza, on its 1-year anniversary
I just realized that it's been exactly one year since my book, Urawaza: Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks from Japan, was published. And I think that's a great time to re-pimp it, and encourage those of you who haven't bought a copy to get one now. Here are five reasons why: - It would make a gre...
Is there any campain?
For instance, the first fifty buyers can get an autograph from the author, if they send a proof of purchase.
Commented Apr 9, 2009 on Buy my book, Urawaza, on its 1-year anniversary at TOKYOMANGO
Buy my book, Urawaza, on its 1-year anniversary
I just realized that it's been exactly one year since my book, Urawaza: Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks from Japan, was published. And I think that's a great time to re-pimp it, and encourage those of you who haven't bought a copy to get one now. Here are five reasons why: - It would make a gre...
The idea is somewhat close to SEKAI Camera, which is based on location, time and place. It has a camera which uses the AR technology.
Commented Apr 9, 2009 on GPS Cell phone app lets you record crushes at TOKYOMANGO
GPS Cell phone app lets you record crushes
Hitomebo is a new GPS cell phone app in Japan that uses GPS to record locations where you spotted hot men or women. So, let's say you see a nice-looking lady in front of LaForet Harajuku at 2PM on Saturday. You can record that. And if the girl saw you, she could record that too. The system wi...
Yes. I feel sad, too. The Japanese medical system is getting somewhat wrong these days.
What is happenning?
Commented Mar 27, 2009 on Aiiku hospital no longer offers perinatal care at TOKYOMANGO
Aiiku hospital no longer offers perinatal care
I just found out that the hospital I was born at, Tokyo's Aiiku Hospital, just delisted itself from the official registry of perinatal clinics because they don't have enough doctors. Sad! The hospital, whose name Aiiku is a combination of the kanji for "love" and "grow," is the first of what cou...
Great! I will bring an idea.
Commented Mar 17, 2009 on TokyoMango's "I'll make you a Make t-shirt" contest at TOKYOMANGO
TokyoMango's "I'll make you a Make t-shirt" contest
One of the highlights of last week's ETech—besides giving a presentation—was hanging out with the Make Magazine folks while making t-shirts on their portable t-shirt press. I made one with three super-cute characters designed by Mark Frauenfelder that reminded me of me, Ruby, and Malcolm taking...
I am shocked. I heard that Ozzy Osbourne used to do a similar thing with a chicken on the stage. Not sure true or not.
Someone told me that that type of action is the original meeting of "Geek".
Another thing was happened in San Jose by a PE teacher.
http://www.mercurynews.com/topstories/ci_11889183
High schools these days are not very safe.
Commented Mar 16, 2009 on Basketball coach forces teenagers to behead two pigeons at TOKYOMANGO
Basketball coach forces teenagers to behead two pigeons
Weird news of the day: a middle school basketball coach was fired after it became clear that he forced two kids to behead a pair of pigeons that were getting in the way of practice in December. The dead pigeons were found floating in a pond on campus; when questioned, the coach admitted that it ...
As the speaker said, engineers like making loud sound. But not appropriete in a packed meeting room. If it is always quiet, engineers do not like it.
In a long term sense, this feature could be major only in the Japan market, where meeting rooms are so small and packed with a lot of people.
Commented Mar 15, 2009 on Video: The manner mode pen, and why Japan makes seemingly useless gadgets at TOKYOMANGO
Video: The manner mode pen, and why Japan makes seemingly useless gadgets
I had a virtual guest speaker at my ETech session on Japanese tech and toys. Consultant Morinosuke Kawaguchi joined us via this video, in which he explains why Japan makes seemingly useless gadgets like the "manner mode" pen. It's very insightful! Related story: The Shibuya cell phone video
It is showing in Osaka, Japan (My hometown). Sunday March 21 10am.
http://www.ccosaka.org/ocf09_films.html
Commented Mar 15, 2009 on Tokyo Sonata, a great, depressing film about Japanese family life at TOKYOMANGO
Tokyo Sonata, a great, depressing film about Japanese family life
I just came back from a screening of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's new movie, Tokyo Sonata. It's a two-hour drama about a middle-class Japanese family of four. Their stories unravel after the father loses his job and doesn't tell anyone. Kurosawa is most famous as a horror film director (Pulse, Cure) but ...
Interesting. I will watch it if it is still showing in Japan.
Commented Mar 15, 2009 on Tokyo Sonata, a great, depressing film about Japanese family life at TOKYOMANGO
Tokyo Sonata, a great, depressing film about Japanese family life
I just came back from a screening of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's new movie, Tokyo Sonata. It's a two-hour drama about a middle-class Japanese family of four. Their stories unravel after the father loses his job and doesn't tell anyone. Kurosawa is most famous as a horror film director (Pulse, Cure) but ...
I heard the talk at ETech yesterday and was very impressed.
Although I am Japanese, I did not know many things in the talk.
The graph why Japanese people like cute things was very interesting.
Commented Mar 12, 2009 on Leather cell phone strap boasts sexy curves at TOKYOMANGO
Leather cell phone strap boasts sexy curves
I think the way this cell phone charm is advertised as having "beautiful curving lines" on Strap-ya is very Japanese. The product is just a simple leather strap, but the creators carefully shaped and solidified it to resemble sexy woman curves. I guess that's not so unusual, since if you look a...
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