11 posts tagged “japan”
On June 1, researchers from Osaka University’s Graduate School of Engineering unveiled a robot that acts like a
human infant, which they hope may one day help scientists better understand the child development process.
The researchers have named the baby robot “CB2,” and for now, it is designed to function as a 1- to 2-year-old child, gazing intently at its surroundings, squirming about on the floor and lighting up the room with child-like charm.
The 130 cm long, 33 kg robot features 56 air cylinders that serve as muscles. With cameras for eyes and microphones for ears, and with 197 tactile sensors embedded in the layer of soft silicone skin covering its entire body, CB2 is well-equipped to take in environmental stimuli. When CB2’s shoulders are tapped, it blinks as if surprised, stops moving, and turns its gaze toward the person who touched it, and when a toy is dangled in front of its eyes, it appears to devote all its energy to trying to reach for it. CB2 also has a set of artificial vocal chords that it uses to speak baby talk.
The researchers say that once CB2 is equipped with software that gives it the ability to learn, they will be very interested in undertaking the long-term challenge of teaching it how to walk and talk.
Source - http://www.pinktentacle.com/
Show us a picture of where you'd like to live and tell us why you want to live there.
Submitted by Warhead.
or anywhere in Japan for that matter,
I've lived in Coventry for half my life.
It's boring as hell.
Let's see we have the movies, Barnes and Noble
and im sure there are plenty of things to do,
A Tissue dispensing robot created by
InterRobot Inc. A company that creates and rents out robots.
In Western Japan.
When the Mospeng-kun detects someone nearby it will
offer a greeting and actually hands you a pack of tissues.
The rental fee starts at 100,000 yen
The equivelant to $835 for 5 days.
TRANSLATION - In a restaurant in Japan. A goldfish tank can be found underneath a fryer.
Yep. Insane right? wrong.
Apparently since oil floats on water.
The oil being 163 degrees. All the fish has to do is to stay away from the surface.
Not just that but the particles that fall into the tank
can be eaten by the fish, preventing waste.
Which I can't imagine is ..very healthy for the fish. But they are still living somehow!
Talk about totally useless knowledge.
Watch how much it takes him to get the thing in the bottle,
You'll never have to use this -_-.
But its interesting to see how easy it is to get out.
Psychic cop or just coincidence?
A pair of otters holding hands
I don't think you can get much cuter than that.
This article is insane. Obsessive fans are crazy. I don't even know who this guy is, but this article is crazy.
Ultimate Fangirl with her crazy parents..
Leaving a twelve page letter to daughter's idol Andy Lau, Yang Qingji ended his 68 years long life in Hong Kong on March 26 after his daughter attends an activity with her idol Andy Lau.
Yang Li-juan (R) finally got the chance to meet Hong Kong star Andy Lau. [Xmnext.com]
Yang's daughter Yang Lijuan is a 28-year-old girl from northwestern China's Gansu province. After the first time she dreamed of Andy 13 years ago, she became a huge fan of him. Since then, she quitted school and spent all the time thinking of her idol. All she wants is to meet Andy Lau and tell him how she loves him.
To support daughter's dream, Yang Qingji and his wife spent up every penny of their savings. They sold the only house they had in Lanzhou City. Yang even decided to sell one of his kidneys to a local hospital, but he was refused because it's illegal. However, they never had chance to meet or talk to Andy. Several days ago, the family entered Hong Kong for the third time. With the help of Andy's fans club, Yang Lijuan finally had an opportunity to attend Andy's birthday activity with hundreds of his fans on March 25. To her disappointment, she only got few minutes to take picture with Andy instead of having a conversation with him. Her life long dream did not come true.
Being unacceptable to this result, Yang Qingji wrote a letter blaming Andy's coldness to his daughter and drowned himself in despair after daughter and wife fell in sleep. In his letter, he thought it was Andy's responsibility to arrange a private meet with his daughter, even for five minutes.
Yang Lijuan and her mother were in deep sorrow after Yang's death. Yang Lijuan showed her regret of loving Andy Lau for so many years to reporters. But she still insisted that Andy should meet her again, otherwise her father's death was meaningless. She took Andy as the root cause of her father's death. Although critics think the deficiency of courage to face the reality after fulfilling years' dream is the real reason of the tragedy.
Andy Lau responds through his agency on March 28 that he has fulfilled Miss Yang's hope of meeting on the birthday activity. Feeling astonished and disappointed, he hopes Miss Yang can go back to hometown and start her own life. He refuses to meet her any more.
Leaving father's dead body in Hong Kong, Yang Lijuan and her mother went back to Lanzhou on March 28 without making it clear what to do next.
In response to the reports, Andy Lau called Yang Li Juan to stop her overdone act. "I hate those unfilial people who are selfish and show little respect and concern for their parents, and I will not care the fans who hope to see me through unhealthy means
Especially Japanese ones.
They just have the most out of the ordinary stories
So if your looking for just a good movie in general I'd definetely suggest this one.
Then she leaves once more, leaving them completely alone
It's incredible the feelings that you can feel,
When you find just that right song,
That makes you feel them.
It's almost the same feeling,
As that of love.
To think its just something material
that can make me feel this way.
It just amazes me..
What is your current obsession(s)?
Submitted by eijsr.
This is going to be so random. Be warned.
Might also be long.
Commercial Airplanes
Dinosaurs
Abandonware
Traveling (I wish like in this picture -_-)
John Mayer
Icons
Taking pictures (more recently)
My constant quest for new Ipod music.
Japan
Thailand
Road Trips to anywhere (with good music)
Planting seeds and watching them grow.
Eating exotic foods.
Taking long walks with Dan.
Learning about different cultures.
Shirts that are cute and comfy.
Skirts worn with boots.
Im not sure what is has to do with the objects in the picture but I thought it was very kawaii.
I got this from Tokyo Mango a japanese blog I read on a daily basis.
This is a little cruel/somewhat justified/torturous.
To be quite frank. I think its worse than the actual punishment itself.
Imagine just sitting and waiting to die. But not knowing when.
Im indifferent about the Death penalty, I don't believe its a deterrant and I don't think it really solves anything. I mean someone takes a life so.. im going to take theirs. What is it teaching us other than killing is ok because the cops do it.
Yet I feel for families who have lost their loved ones due to violence. I know if something ever happened to my parents, my family or my friends I wouldn't want to see them live either.
my grandfather, my 'qoontha' got run over while he was riding his motorcycle across the street, but I don't have a vendetta against the person who hit him, because in the end, its not going to bring him back.
Like I said im indifferent, I don't know how I feel about it.
Maybe they should come up with a law telling you your going to die, not tell you when but instead they leave you in prison forever. Now that would be torture.
Article from Tokyo Mango - The retrograde step runs counter to the universal protection of human rights and is at odds with the international trend away from the use of the death penalty.
It's true, the current Justice Minister Jinen Nagase is very gallow-happy, especially compared to the man who held the post prior to him, who didn't order any executions during his 11 months in office.
Here's how the Japanese death row system works:
1. You get sentenced to death.
2. You get put on death row.
3. You have no idea when you're gonna die. Neither do your parents, or your lawyers. It could be tomorrow, it could be 50 years from now. The constant anticipation is part of your punishment.
4. One random morning, you'll find out it's your last day. I think you get a meal. And then you're a goner.
5. An announcement is made in public that one prisoner was hanged that day. But they don't say who. Nobody knows you're dead, they just know that there's one less dangerous criminal alive today.
The article itself - http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2007/01/death_row_polic.html
Video: Show us your favorite commercial of all time.
Submitted by Jane of Art.
Thought this was kind of cute.
R.I.P Mr. Choromatsu
