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Super Mario Open Source with Arduino and a 8x8 LED matrix

2010-03-15T10:29:00Z

Chloe Fan created a one dot Mariovideogame using an Arduino and a LED matrix. The gameplay is "zen": one button makes Mario move forward and the other makesthe pixel hero jump. Level maps come from Super Pixel Bros (bit.ly/superpixbros) transcribed by hand into bytes -- solid areas are 1's and empty areas are 0's and OST is based on mariopiano.com transcribed notes are used with piezo code.

Steampunk portable videogame from 880s

2010-03-15T00:16:00Z

Yoshi Akai is a Japanese designer who produces and uses original musical instruments with a unique input system. Visionaudio is mini synth but really looks like a tabletop videogame realeased by "Gakken" in 1880s!

880s are still coo...

Julie Samurai Girl turns into Cyber Alice

2010-03-14T11:45:00Z

via ipodstyle - This morning young and sexy Japanese photographer Julie "Samurai Girl" Watai broadcasted live on Ustream the photoshooting of her Cyber Alice selfportraits series. The location are the Arduino headquarters in Japan.
Julie's a...

Danny Choo to Make Anime

2010-03-14T10:22:00Z

I just discovered that Danny Choo is producing his very own anime!! Contratulations Danny but please remember: "No panchira, No anime"!!
Now that I think about it, I should follow the steps of "Danny Sensei" and start soon the prod...

Japanese invasion of China 2010: it's called the "porno war"!

2010-03-13T21:43:00Z

via sexynews24 - On 12th march Japaense porno powerhouse SOFT ON DEMAND partecipated to the Shanghai Adult Care Expo 2010...
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DISPLACED Performing-Arts, Video, Sovrapposizione Di Esperienze

2010-03-12T14:38:00Z

If tomorrow you will be in sourthern Italy (in Bari exactly) you shouldn't miss DISPLACED: a one night organized by my old friend Ivan Iusco from Minus Habens (a cult electronic label that produced a couple of my tracks back in the days + published m...

Sushi bondage girl by Boris Hoppek

2010-03-11T10:12:00Z

via Antenna 7 - The German artist Boris Hoppek is going to exhibit his "Sushi For Ever" in the Japanese art gallery Diesel Denim Gallery Aoyama in Tokyo. This bondage inspired live art/performance is part of the exhibition "Ever" cu...

Rockman Sakuma Drops Candies

2010-03-10T22:29:00Z

Rockman meets Sakuma drops. Retrogrames candies on sale at 350円 from 6 march in Animate and Kotobukiya shops.
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LEGO NXT robot controlled by a Wii balance board - Reinforce Lab

2010-03-10T13:29:00Z

via Make - Akihiro Uehara, a Japanese Lego hacker (blog.reinforce-lab.com), built an interface between a LEGO MINDSTORMS Alpha Rex and a Wii Balance Board. User can control the robot's leg motors speed and direction by changing the vector connecting user's center of balance and center of the board!

XBOX 360 dominates JAPAN!!

2010-03-09T01:00:00Z

Now tell me that PS3 is better than the "Japanese" 360...

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USB Memory Men from Büro Destruct

2010-03-05T08:59:00Z

(via Büro Destructr) MM Bunny the first preview of the upcoming “BD Memory Men” USB stick series of 5 different characters arrived. Expect the Memory Men this spring/summer season published and produced by Pat Says Now.
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Tim Rogers is depressed in Japan...

2010-03-04T10:08:00Z

Tim Rogers posted on Kotaku a rant against Japan and Japanese culture. I really dig Tim's writing about videogames but Kotaku is not Action Button and his post sounds more like a rant from a pennyless english teacher who was never able to get out from ...

iPhone - Sexy appli still on sale in Japan...

2010-03-03T13:12:00Z

Apple talibans censors probably don't speak Japanese as there are sexy games like The Pantienon and KissComi still on sale in Japanese Appstore... maybe Apple Japan didn't ban KissComi (starred by AV idol Tsubomi) as it's co-produced by a well know por...

Watch Man Golf & Bowling LCD games from Tomy - 1982

2010-02-28T11:56:00Z

Japanese advertisement from 1982. Tomy bowling was the company first wrist-watch game (the gameplay was taken from the Slimboy Bowling LCD game) and in 1982 the toy company released the Golf watch.
via 昭和之...

Arduino vs Gakken Tour 2010

2010-02-26T10:06:00Z

I'm just back from 3 days in Ivrea for the Arduino vs Gakken press tour. We had really great fun with Gianluca Martino, Massimo Banzi and David Cuartielles (in the photo interviewed by Shigeru Kaneko: the mastermind of the cult Japanese magazine Otona ...

Jeri Ellsworth = perfect girlfriend for Arcade gamers

2010-02-25T09:56:00Z

Phil Torrone, Senior Editor di MAKE magazine, during the DIY week (on Life Hacker) posted this photo of Jeri Elisworth fixing her Punk Shot arcade board released by Konami in 1990. She looks like the perfect girlfriend for any arcade game collecto...

FIGURE SKATER 2 by Capcow

2010-02-24T00:57:00Z

via expo7000.tumblr.com NSFW
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Nintendo never made a "Go" game...

2010-02-24T00:01:00Z

Nintendo never made a "Go" game. The reason is that ex-Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamazaki won't allow one to be released unless the game could beat him. But Yamazaki is a 6 dan (high rank), and also it's hard to create routine Go strategies....

Apple talibans are killing iPad "tablet magazines" market...

2010-02-23T12:55:00Z

As Kotaku pointed out, the iPhone and iPod Touch (as well as the iTunes Application Store) are Apple products so the free speech argument doesn't fly. But the iPad is a different story as Apple needs the support of many magazine publishers (not only th...

My first techno record! UMM - NOISEE BOYZ ELEVATOR EP

2010-02-23T00:02:00Z

I love pirates! I just found a site with ELEVATOR EP: the very first techno record I produced 18 years ago with an Amiga 500. The vinyl has been released on UMM and as far as I know it was the first record with the sample "hardcore" used in...

Moyashimon TV Drama

2010-02-22T21:43:00Z

The official website for the drama adaptation of Masayuki Ishikawa's Moyashimon manga has launched with a one-minute promotional video.
In the linked page, select the pink "スペシャル" germ in the menu at the bottom. The July televisi...

Apple deletes Julie's PIXEL LOVE from iPhone App Store

2010-02-22T17:53:00Z

Last weekend Apple talibans removed from iPhone App Store, among other thousands of sexy/gravure applications, the application created by digital artist and photographer Julie Watai. If you check the video it's clear that the appli is not "for adults" (almost it wouldn't be considered offensive outside Afganistan)...

Adult Fans Of LEGO

2010-02-22T01:30:00Z

Passion combines with creativity in this documentary that features a selection of AFOLs (Adult Fans Of LEGO) from the Pacific NorthWest. Directed by Jess Gibson

via digitaltools

Domo Kun Qee Anatomy

2010-02-21T02:29:00Z

Domo-kun a mascot prduced by NHK and soon became a net meme in Japan and whiting the roeign otaku scene. Jason Freeny just posted this impressive Domo Kun Qee figure anatomy illustration.
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ArduinoBoy now on sale

2010-02-21T00:01:00Z

The ArduinoBoy, developed by Timothy "trash80" Lamb, is a device based around the Arduino microcontroller that allows one to use their GameBoy as a musical instrument. It translates MIDI signals from a computer, keyboard, sequencer, o...

Tomica Sushi by Paramodel

2010-02-20T16:57:00Z

My mother always tought me to not play with food but these Tomica sushi art toys are by Paramodel irresistible.
The same artists behind these sushi cars decorated my favorite bar in Akihabara!

Paramodel is an artist unit formed in 2001 by Yasuhiko H...

VOCALOID SEX - FUTURE LOID MIKUTY

2010-02-20T00:07:00Z

Finally Hatsune Miku fans can experience "real love" with their very own virutal idol... it's a shame that Valentine Day is over!!

via www.amazon.co.jp
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Tamiya x Maywa Denki ROBOGAKKI

2010-02-20T00:01:00Z

The Japanese artist duo Mywa Denki specialized in nonsense toy/music machines (recently they released the Otamatone) teamed up with Tamiya to create the small sound robots Robogakki.
On 28 march in Yokohama the brothers Masamuchi and Nobumichi...

TAITO - Official Gradius T-Shirt

2010-02-19T11:09:00Z

Ebten has just released a wonderful Official Gradius T-Shirt (I got it and it looks way better than in the photo). Damage = 4500 Yen
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Young Animal Magazine is LOVE!

2010-02-19T09:46:00Z

Young Animal (ヤングアニマル) is one of my favourite printed magazines in Japan. It's a semimonthly publication with about 288 black and white pulp pages of comics wrapped in about 20 slick pages of color photos of sexy gravure idols.
Young ...

DIY HARDWARE PORNO

2010-02-19T09:17:00Z

Magic-1 is a completely homebuilt minicomputer. It doesn't use an off-the-shelf microprocessor, but instead has a custom CPU made out of 74 Series TTL chips. Altogether there are more than 200 chips in Magic-1 connected together with thousands of i...

Super Mario Robot Vinyl Figure

2010-02-18T21:13:00Z

KodyKoala created a Custom Mario Mech Vinyl Figure starting from a giant Mario toy bought at Toys'r'us and a Mario Keychain.
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Build your own mini Arcade

2010-02-18T20:38:00Z

MINI MARKADE is a new project created by Moslevin. It features Tetris, Space Invaders and Breakout - all selectable from a frontend application. Smooth 60fps graphics are displayed on a 1.5 inch OLED display (by 4D Systems), while controls are input ...

SUPER 7 x STAR WARS: STORMTROOPER SUPER SHOGUN

2010-02-18T00:08:00Z

Super7 announced the first collaboration with Lucasfilm Ltd.: the highly anticipated Star Wars Stormtrooper Super Shogun. The Star Wars Stormtrooper Super Shogun stands a whopping 24 inches tall, and includes all of the features that you expect f...

Why Apple hates Wired iTablet App

2010-02-17T17:53:00Z

Chris Anderson, and not Apple's iPad, is going to save the publishing industry: Wired Tablet App will force Apple to accept Flash on iPad/iPhone to keep the pace with competition's tablets... this will open the development of interactive tablet magazines and start a new industry that with a closed system would never take off (how many digital magazines have you read on an iPhone/iPod)?

The publishing industry needs a single tool to deploy tabletmags to many different mobile platforms and if Indesign/Air will become the standard design/development tools Apple will be forced to accept Flash (almost as embedded code)...
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Street Fighter 4 midi fighter!

2010-02-17T00:39:00Z

Shoryuken DJ Style!!!

Life-Size Sand Scorcher Is a Toy for Big Kids

2010-02-16T16:09:00Z

Wired Autopia posted my photos of the life size Tamiya Sand Scorcher I spotted during the Nuremberg Toy Fair 2010. Thanks to Chuck Squatriglia and Keith Barry.

タミヤの往年の人気ラジコンが「実物大」に変身：ドイツ http://wir...

TOTORO in TOY STORY 3!!

2010-02-15T12:49:00Z

WOW!

Mega Drive business Card Case

2010-02-15T02:24:00Z

From Strapya...
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Happy Valentine Day!!

2010-02-14T20:55:00Z

Yuka Toyota... I'm in love again!!
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