Nao Tamura is a Japanese and US based designer who recently won the Salone Satellite Award at Milan Design Week 2010 for Seasons, her functional kitchen and serving ware. The plates are leave-shaped containers made of silica sand, which means that they can easily be rolled up.
She was inspired by Japanese customary traditions of using leaves as decorative objects in the presentation of food. In the Spring, cherry tree leaves are used to wrap sweets. In Autumn, fallen foliage is used to decorate the table. Leaves are also used as dividers when presenting an assortment of dishes. Read more...
Japanese engineers have invented something completely useless, yet totally cool. This time it’s a grabbing device for potato chips so you don’t get grease and salt all over your fingers and crumbs dropping into your keyboard
Potechi ポテチの手 ( a Japanese neologism derived from the English “potato chip”) is an ingenious device manufactured by Takara Tomi, that grabs potato chips, so you don’t have to. This device features technologies like NBCS (No Broken Clutch System), NTTS (No Touch Table System) and FECS (Finger Easy Cleaning System) allows you to gently pick up potato chips without breaking them. Simply press the button and let Potechi do the rest of the job for you. Read more...
Fit Korean housewife Jung Dayeon has a simple yet effective mix of aerobic exercise and dance she calls Figurerobics セット韓国でエクササイズDVD. The 4 set DVD is being promoted to Japanese women as way of getting toned and fit this summer and is available for 12,800 yen.
Figurerobics Videos
Power ranger helmet fashion from years gone by.
Sexy Japanese babe Honoka 穂花 shows that yoga is the best form of exercise.
Honoka Yoga video
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Saki Akai 赤井沙希 is a pretty 24 year old 175cm tall actress, model and gravure idol from Kyoto Japan. Her father is actor and ex boxer, Hidekazu Akai 赤井英和.
Saki was working as a model in the Kansai area before her big break in 2008 appearing in popular Fuji TV quiz show Hexagon 2. She has also appeared on Ken Shimura’s Lord fool TV show as well as ShowQ, Vanilla Mood and Dancing Sanma Palace.
Saki has released 2 photo books Saki & Lip, Hip Shake and 4 DVDs including last year’s Love passion. Read more...
We previously blogged about time laspe videos using tilt shift. We found another fun video of sumo wrestlers that was taken in tilt-shift from youtube user thebittergirls.
Tilt Shift Sumo Video
Pretty Ageha fashion model and entrepreneur Eri Momoka is the face of “Tequila Balls” テキーラボール a type of “jello shot” that was created at the Tokyo Kabukicho bar “NASUKA” in 2008. Tequila balls are 20% alcohol and contain 1/3 of a shot glass worth of tequila each and currently available in orange, blueberry, yogurt, cassis and strawberry.
NASUKA’s main patrons are hosts and hostesses who like the Tequila Balls but one regular who happened to be a model for the massively popular cabaret style fashion magazine, Koakuma Ageha wrote about the Tequila balls on her blog which brought a sudden surge in interest from around Japan. Read more...
Japanese electronics maker Sanyo showcased a curious contraption called the Human Washing machine 人間洗濯機 Ultrasonic Bath during the 1970 Osaka World Expo.
Back in those days the engineers at Sanyo people thought that washing machines made to bathe humans would be a natural progression in technology. A user would have to climb into the washing machine and the process would start with a pre-rinse cycle using a five minute water jet spray, followed by a three minute massage bath that fills the chamber with hot water. Golf-ball sized massage balls pelt the body during the massage process, combined with pressure jets made by a whirlpool. Next, a wave generator created bubbles to wash off dirt, followed by a rinse cycle and a “5-minute dry cycle blast” that makes use of infrared and ultraviolet light. Developed as a concept model, the Ultrasonic Bath (luckily) never made it into our homes.
