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Monthly Archives: August 2010
The potato chips hand
Have you ever suffered from oily fingers when eating potato chips? These times are over! A Japanese company started selling this potato chips hands for roughly 700 Yen (about 6 Euro). Maybe its also useful to handle my sports cloths…
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Spicy recommendation IX
Here we are with a new spicy recommendation. Again its a snack which was presented to me by a colleague from the office. I’s named “TOPOKKI” and originates from Korea. Here’s another blog entry (in Japanese) which I found on…
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Posted in Spicy recommendation
Chinese vs. Japanese economy – a fair comparison
According to latest news, China has overtaken Japan as the worlds number two in economy. This might be true in total numbers, but relating the GDP to the number of people in each country gives a totally different picture. Assuming…
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Posted in Japanese
Robot sushi fingers
Compared to prior robot arms this robot hand is capable to make human-like movements. I only hope that someone washes the robot’s fingers from time to time. Otherwise I wouldn’t eat that sushi
Spicy recommendation VIII
Sometimes you can get also some quite spicy food in one of the chain restaurants here in Japan. Thereby, my recommendation is SUKIYA, which is a typical Gyūdon restaurant, that serves a variety of beef bowls. The normal bowls are…
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Posted in Food, Spicy recommendation
Applied physics for your household
An Italian company is selling some more or less useful, but at least well designed, products for your household. These kitchen gadgets are all based on the (basic) laws of physics. As for the tool which distributes wine equally to…
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Spicy recommendation VII
This morning I was presented from my colleague a snack which looked like cup noodles at the first glance. But since the company explicitly printed a statement that the content can be eaten directly, I did not pour in water…
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Posted in Food, Spicy recommendation
Five trillion digits of Pi – on a single PC
A Japanese engineer and an American student set a new world record of computing the digits of Pi. Using a single PC, they ran the computations over 90 days, getting down to the five trillionths digits, which by the way…
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Mormon missionaries in Japan
You might have seen them in Europe or at some airport. They always come together, are male and mostly just above 18 years. They are always dressed in suits, shirts and they usually wear neckties. Here’s a stereotype picture, which…
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