This is a rather super cool robot that mimics the ocean’s manta rays. I guess that makes this a sky manta, a perfectly awesome sounding pet. It’s filled with helium and is made by European robot manufacturing company Festo. Check out the lovely video of the sky manta in motion and you’ll want one for [...]
Entries from August 2007
August 27, 2007
pretty garbage
In Japan, you gotta separate your garbage, and put it out on different days. Plus, you’re not supposed to put it out the night before, otherwise the crows cause sh1t. It’s a bit of a pain, some places have up to 45 different recycling categories; that means you have to separate your garbage into 45 [...]
August 26, 2007
zombies and clouds
Not much of an uber-post today, two links from Neatorama. The clouds just look awesome, but the gallery of zombie action figures is an shout-out to the zombie walk that happened in Halifax yesterday. Didn’t see it, I just like anything that involves people dressing in costume.
zombie thor
from Neatorama
August 22, 2007
running your car on chopsticks
That’s what Japan is trying to do, the country is looking at using these ubiquitous utensils for biofuel production. Each of Japan’s 127 million residents uses on average 200 pairs of chopsticks a year. That’s equal to 90,000 tons of wood a year. It’s nice that they’re finding use for this waste, but it’d be [...]
August 22, 2007
young japanese aren’t into cars
According to a Nikkei Business Daily survey, young people in Japan’s capital are less and less interested in owning a car. A survey of Tokyoites in their 20s was conducted in 2000, it found that 48.2% were interested in buying a car and 23.6% actually owned a car. Fast forward seven years and my [...]
