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Battery Powered By Water. Licking Is Enough To Charge It Up

Yet another amazing invention by the Japanese. Susumu Suzuki, president of Tokyo-based building material maker Total System Conductor, has created a battery that gets its power from water. The electric current from this battery is as powerful as regular alkaline batteries, yet as much as ten times cheaper to produce. The battery is even recyclable for [...]

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Who Else Wants A Really HUGE Gundam Robot?

Not huge enough to pilot, but still darn huge! This 5-foot (1.5m) tall 1/12 scale RX-78-2 Gundam is all yours if you could bear to part with just 350,000 Yen (~US$3,050). For those unfamiliar with Gundam (doh!), it is one of the most wildly popular anime series featuring mechas. And the Gundam featured here is one [...]

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Virtual Reality Roller Shoes

Virtual Reality is cool and all, but it never really took off. Because no matter how cool the cyber world is, if you start walking you’ll bump into a “real” wall soon enough. So Hiroo Iwata, Hiroshi Tomioka and Hiroaki Yano from the University of Tsukuba in central Japan had a smart idea. Why not make [...]

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Record Smells And Play It Back Later?

Of the five senses that we have, we can already record sound and sight. So why not expand it to three with the inclusion of smell? Kudos to the researchers over at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, who has been working hard on developing an odor recorder that could actually record smell! It is made possible [...]

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Japanese funerals caught on a new camera phone craze

There seem to be a new bizarre trend going on now in Japan, where funeral attendees would use their camera cellphones to capture the last moments of the deceased. During the ceremony, people would gather around the coffin, collectively take out their camera phones, and begin snapping pictures of the corpse before the cremation begins. A [...]

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