Articles posted in the ‘Offbeat’ category

May
30
See your ‘fortune’ at The Future Photo Museum

Want to see what you’ll look like and where you’ll be in the future? Then head on over to the Future Photo Museum and find out. The Museum keeps a “photograph” of your “future”.

May
21
A Kei truck drifting with the big boys

Here’s a pretty cool video of some drifters having at it. Better yet, one of the vehicles is a miniature ‘Kei Truck’ that could give Fujiwara a run. It’s pretty cool to see this little truck blaze around the track.

May
18
PlayTalk’s take on the microblog

PlayTalk and Me2day are like the Korean cousins of Jaiku and Twitter, but one attempts to go beyond the confines of Wikipedia-defined microblogging.

Apr
23
Read Murakami’s Norwegian Wood online

Haruki Murakami’s novel Norwegian Wood is readable online in its entirety. Reading the novel online could serve as a great introduction to Murakami’s work or a “try before you buy” for Norwegian Wood itself.

Apr
11
A feast fit for a musician

Waiting for or done with dinner? No need to bang on glasses to make a clangy rhythm surely to make your tablemates yell “stop!”. Instead put down the fork and strike the table.

Apr
8
The world’s smallest 8GB flash drive

Standing tall…er short, the Pico-C fits 8GB of flash memory onto the size of a quarter. A mere 31.3mm long, the flash drive can pack a whole lot of files inside. It’s also water resistant.

Mar
29
ApriPoko – the robot remote control

If you thought the remote was a cool invention, Toshiba’s ApriPoko takes things to a new level. The smart robo will learn how you use the remote so it can perform the same actions later.

Mar
26
Why are anime eyes so big?

So why do anime characters often have such large eyes or corneas? Some cute and pretty fun Acuvue contact lense advertisements suggest a good reason.

Mar
23
The balancing bookshelf

The balancing act of life is by no means fun, but when it comes to balancing physical objects, it can be suprisingly amusing. “Maintain The Balance of Your Knowledge!”

Mar
17
Rolling sushi with spokes

They once rolled on a wheel, but now a particularly inventive device uses bicycle spokes to roll sushi. The Spoke sushi roller by recycles old bike spokes, making a perfectly useful sushi roller out of them