Leave it to the Japanese to come up with the brilliant idea of combining espresso and soda. Japan’s Suntory Beverage & Food recently launched Espressoda, the drink that mixes carbonated water with a strong and sweet coffee. Suntory is also promoting their new carbonated elixir with a secret game embedded in excel format, and hopes to target the “hard-working adult.” [...]
Japan is again ahead in the game of technology. Asahi Soft Drinks have revealed a new type of vending machine that offers Wi-Fi. The vending machines will also dispense your standard soft drink, hamburgers, eggs, and underwear. As of 2012, Asahi hopes to set up 1,000 new vending machines throughout five regions of Japan. The Wi-Fi service will be free [...]
20-year-old student Mayuko Kanazawa, from Japan’s Tama Art University came up with the idea for a leg hair font, after her teacher asked her to create a new typeface without the help of computers. Kanazawa says that the idea came to her when she looked down at a male classmate’s leg. The font was recently used in an Adidas campaign, [...]
Bitplay, a Japanese design studio presents: Bang! Lamp. One of the studio’s first designs from its collection of products. The lamp is a creative and playful design that uses a special gun to turn the lamp on or off. What happens if you lose the gun? No worries, the lamp has a swith on it’s side to toggle the light. [...]
In Japan it’s seen as intimidating to have perfectly straight teeth. So people are getting veneers to make their teeth messed up. It’s like undoing the years of orthodonture American kids suffer precisely so they can intimidate others and get better jobs and than them. Here are photos of some deliberately fucked up teeth: And here’s a video of the [...]
Domino’s, the pizza with cosmic aspirations. A place where no chain has gone before. The Japanese branch of the company has announced that it wants to build the first pizzeria on the lunar surface called, “Domino’s Moon Branch.” “We started thinking about this project last year, although we have not yet determined when the restaurant might open,” Domino’s spokesman Tomohide [...]
Manga fans, it’s here. Launched by 39 Japanese publishers, JManga.com is offering online access to tons of new titles previously unavailable in North America. There has been a decline in Manga sales in recent years mostly due to lack of titles. With JManga that problem is solved. Here is a description from the press release: JManga.com provides online manga for [...]
Natsumi Hayashi is a random girl with an eye for photography. She’s called “Tokyo’s Levitating Girl.” She has photographed herself suspended midair all over the Japanese capital—at train stations, in restaurants and deserted fields all over Tokyo. Natsumi was inspired by a “levitating shot” that was posted on her photography blog called “Today’s Levitation.” Since then, Natsumi has been inspired [...]
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