Japanese Company Creates the World’s Most Awesome BB Gun
Japanese company Suidobashi Heavy Industries recently unveiled a miniature version of the Phalanx CIWS automatic gun system which fires thousands of plastic BB pellets instead of metal bullets. Featuring a radar-guided 20 mm Vulcan cannon mounted on a swiveling base, the Phalanx CIWS is one of the U.S. Navy’s most reliable weapon systems, finding itself […]
Japanese Inventor Creates Creepy Spider Night Lamp, Freaks Out the Internet
A Japanese IT engineer has created a creepy nigh lamp that crawls on robotic spider legs and leads you to the toilet in the middle of the night. Don’t you hate when you have to answer nature’s call in the middle of the night? It’s pitch dark, you don’t know where you’re going and you […]
This Japanese Steampunk-Themed Business Card Holder Is the Coolest Thing You’ll See Today
Even you’re not the kind of person who keeps their business cards in a bespoke holder, heck, even if you don’t have business cards, you’re going to fall in love with this awesome steampunk card holder. Looking at this crazy contraption created by Japanese design company SMD Factory, you’re tempted to think it’s some kind […]
Man Has Been Digging His Basement with Radio-Controlled Miniature Machinery for the Last 14 Years
If you though excavating a basement was hard work, try doing it with R/C miniature construction machinery. One Canadian man has been doing it for 14 years and he’s still not done. Luckily, he’s in no hurry to finish. Joe Murray, a farmer and radio-controlled construction machinery enthusiast from Saskatchewan, Canada, started excavating a basement under […]
Artist Creates Seemingly Magical Book That Glows from Within
A Japanese experimental artist has captured the imaginations of thousands of fantasy and anime fans by creating a seemingly magical book in which the letters keep shining brighter and brighter as the reader approaches its conclusion. Uka Ohashi, an experimental novelist currently studying design at an art university, created her amazing book as a class […]
Japanese Engineer Builds 28-Foot-Tall Functional Gundam Mecha Robot
As a child growing up in Japan, engineer Masaaki Nagumo always dreamed of climbing into his very own Mobile Suit Gundam mecha. As an adult, he finally made that dream a reality. Nagumo created the 28-foot-tall, 7-tonne-heavy LW-Mononofu robot as a project for his employer, industrial machinery maker Sakakibara Kikai, in Japan’s Gunma Prefecture. The metal colossus […]