Posted: September 16th, 2010 | Author: Sly | Filed under: only in japan, sea life, squid, thats right squid, the batcave, underwater, what they hell am i doing writing about squid | No Comments »
I wonder if it costs less to feed a bunch of animals or to keep this place ice cold? Scratch that- this place is well below icy- the depths of this frigid cave are -20C. People who want to gaze upon these flash-frozen sea-beasties must wear a special suit to keep them from getting too cold, and they’re still only allowed to stay a short while.
This makes me wonder if the extra calories needed to keep your body warm make for a good fat burner . Did you know that drinking a cold glass of water makes your body expend 200 calories? Your body has to warm the water before it can be absorbed!
This place is called Kori no Suizokukan, located in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
Posted: June 26th, 2009 | Author: Sly | Filed under: helicopter, only in japan, R/C, toy, voice recognition | Tags: Voice Recognition Technology | 3 Comments »
Leave it to the Japanese to give us a voice controlled toy that makes you use an accent to control. Given my previous experience using voice recognition technology, I’m not so sure about this toy…
My last brush with voice recognition was the game “rainbow six: vegas”. For those of you who don’t know what the heck that is, it’s a tactical shooting game, where you have to take out a bunch of terrorists in Las Vegas. It has a voice recognition, meaning you can yell into your microphone and your guys will try to do what you tell them to… up to a point. You can say things like “wait here”, “go there” ,”follow me”, “stay”,etc… Sadly, you can say something that isn’t in the list of available options, and it will try to do something anyway. Apparently, “Oh Sh–!” means “go over there and get shot”. Let’s just say that it was easier to forget about the voice controls and stick with the good ol’ push button action.
I assume it isn’t going to be any easier with this toy, especially considering the commands:
To start up the engines, say “engine staato”, to shut the engines off, it’s “toe-mah-reh”. To go up, you say “appu”, but to fly down, you still say “down”. Go figure. You can always just hover by saying “holdo”.
taiyo voice-heli: voice control helicopter from japan [appu, appu and away] [technabob]
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Posted: June 23rd, 2009 | Author: Sly | Filed under: crazy, cute, only in japan | 5 Comments »
Leave it to the Japanese to come up with a decoration for your bottled water that you actually put in your bottled water. Yeah, it’s cute… and I could totally see some Japanese people using their water bottle as a fashion accessory.. half full of tiny toys. Though I do think that $6 is a bit steep for some plastic.
Toys for your bottled water [gadetech]