They say a diamond is the surest way to erase all doubt that two-months' salary can last a lifetime. Whoever "they" are, no shit. It's a diamond. Assuming it's an all-natural genuine article, we're talking about a hunk of carbon formed over the course of at least 1 billion years of relentless heat and pressure about ...
Damn you, Japan. Why is it that every time you come across a door that mankind should definitely think twice about opening, you can't wait to blow it off its hinges? A hotel hall in Japan recently rang with the roars and stomps of arguably the world's most realistically recreated dinosaurs as On-Art Corp CEO Kazuya ...
Ah, Sushi! Many would pity those who have not yet sampled the Japanese delicacy. However, sushi rolls are nothing new, many millions of people all over the world partake of this pleasurable plate, daily, and you can too, with this Yomo Sushi Maker. You don't have to be Japanese to make sushi rolls, anyone can do ...
Ladies and Gentlemen, feast your eyes upon the most Japanese thing of all Japanese things. Micah Moore and Long Thai of Beatdown Boogie journeyed to Japan, courtesy of "Cloud Riders" publisher Hashtag Comics, and ventured into Robot Restaurant, an establishment that's as much an explosion of sensory overload as it ...
Is the Air Bonsai what we would call especially useful? Unless the ancient Japanese legend of "little stars" at the galaxy's edge made to grant wishes proves true, not really. Is this magical floating tree's pastoral sort of "magic" very cool? Oh, absolutely. A deeply spiritual reverence for mankind's sacred ...
No, that headline is neither a cheeky bit of "Engrish" nor an overlooked typo. Japan as a whole has a way with leaving "the box" in another dimension when looking for a solution to a problem, and in this instance, the result is the desk-mounted Chin Rest Arm. We feel pretty safe assuming that just about every adult ...
While the grand tradition and ceremony of sumo dates back over 2,000 years, we can't help it: there's just something that's more bizarre and compelling than superlatively athletic and prestigious about all that flesh colliding in the center of a ring to engage in a supreme slap-fight. Why in the name of all that is ...
Movie robots have come a very long way since their popular appearance in the mid 1950’s, but real robots like the ones so commonly seen today – drones, they’re everywhere, and their awesome fun to play with. Drone quadcopters and planes in the sky, drone boats and submersibles in the water, drones with wheal and now, ...
Sometimes, creativity just comes naturally. Mokulock Wooden Building Blocks are bound to look and feel pretty familiar - essentially, you're looking at old-timey-looking Legos that couldn't strip building down to any more bare necessities:no toxic glues, paints or materials of any kind - nothing more than the ...
In today’s modern world, we sure take a lot for granted. We live in luxury with electric light, not candlelight. We drive to work polluting our ecosystem, not flying on rainbows. We use the bathroom in not a smelly outhouse but a private bathroom, but think for a minute. Where does it go? Though we shudder to think ...
You may have seen a number of statues in your lifetime. From the Statue of Liberty to the Great Sphinx of Giza to the David Statue in Italy, statues represent not just people and animals, but historical events and the lives of those who do something truly great. Though the oldest statues created around 30,000 years ...
You’ve got a real thirst for life, there’s no question about it. You work hard, and you play hard too. If you’re not out at the club sipping gin and juice then you’re downing your favorite Russian Vodka at your own house party. While a hangover doesn’t look all that attractive on anybody, you’ve gotta face the music ...
Japan is the place to be if you want to see unusual buildings as this bizarrely shaped house proves. Apparently the plot of land that Mizuishi Architects Atelier had to work with was pretty narrow for this riverside property and so they made it triangular with a small square cut out of the bottom under a jutting-out ...
Japan is the country known to produce some of the most unusual and fun gadgets ever, along with some pretty weird TV shows that we'll save for a later post. This wintertime, they make no exception with Yuki-Taro (yuki meaning snow, taro means bot) SNOWBOT - the friendly snow brick pooping robot. Thankfully, this ...
Jason Lazarus