“Big dog” is an amazing robot developed by Boston Dynamics, look at what it can do.
Yes, the sound is horrible and it’s weird to see a machine move like a us when it doesn’t look like a human. After one week since this video was uploaded to Youtube there are already some fan made funny videos emulating the robot’s movement, this one is hilarious:
Via Dannychoo News and Alt1040.
There are 1.000, 2.000, 5.000 y 10.000 notes but the 2.000 yen ones are really rare. It’s pretty difficult to get one of those, sometimes you are lucky withdrawing from an ATM or if you ask in your bank office. After more than one year without seeing any 2.000 yen bills I was shopping in Akihabara with my friend Ramón Sangüesa and I realized he had ¡MANY 2.000 yen bills! Here are two of them that Ramón gave to me:
In the year 2.000 a G8 summit was celebrated in Okinawa. In order to conmemorate the millinium change and the G8 summmit in Okinawa the Bank of Japan created the 2.000 yen bill (year 2.000, 2.000 yens 😉 ). They printed 100.000.000 bills, not many, and I think they never printed more. That’s why is so rare and collectors keep them.
On one side of the bill there is a scene from “Genji Monogatari”, one of the first novels writen in Japanese. On the other side there is the Shureimon gate. This gate is the Shuri’s castle main door in Okinawa. Shureimon’s gate was the first structure from the castle (The most important one in Okinawa) that was resconstructed after the end of the war. It’s a symbol of recovery and splendor of Okinawa. People in Okinawa are very proud of the 2.000 yen bill and they keep them instead of using them!
Shureimon’s gate in Okinawa.
The author of this blog was lucky enough to meet Shigeru Miyamoto (The creator of Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, F-Zero…) and he even got a signature from Miyamoto on his old SuperNES. He put the signed machine on Ebay and right now the price is over 1.500 dollars! ¿Anyone willing to pay more than 1.500 bucks for a SuperNES?
