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"Geminoid is a remote-control doppelganger droid designed by and modeled after Hiroshi Ishiguro"

"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...."

"I am an artist exploring inter-cultural / inter-sensual communication.

My recent works are a lot about the senses.
Just like listening to the music, the audience 'hear' the aroma by the sense of smell. "

Aromatic Journey #1 - my memories of Japan - (2006)

capturing the smells of Japan

"Keepon is a small creature-like robot developed to perform emotional and attentional interaction with children. It has four degrees of freedom, a soft rubber skin, two cameras in its eyes, and a microphone in its nose."

It is designed to handle an unlimited number of nodes with minimal CPU and memory resources. Thanks to this feature it can be easily used to build a worldwide distributed, anonymous and not controlled network, separated from the Internet, without the supp

Netsukuku is a new p2p routing system, which will be utilised to build a worldwide distributed, anonymous and anarchical network, separated from the Internet, without the support of any servers, ISPs or authority controls.

videos from japanese TV. it's not like here, is it ?

a sweet & cute japanese band

amazing baroque japanese illustrations

creators of Lazy Bear

A collection of Ultraman clips. There are battles with nutty monsters and several intros to the series, this one in particular is plain sublim.
(via we-make-money-not-art)

"Watching the members of a sentai team jumping around all over the place and announcing themselves with a cool pose before doing battle with their enemies is terribly unrealistic, but it suceeds in bringing about a nostalgic sense of simple heroics that h

wonderful cute music from japan :)

A collection of vintage Japanese postcards.

microfilms