Year: 2008

Categories
Gadgets

Guitar phone

Taito launched a really cool software that uses Docomo mobile phones sensors and cameras to emulate a guitar or any other musical instrument. The software name is “Chokkanband” and what it does can be seen visually in this image:

Movil guitarra

But better than words, and better than images, take a look at these videos:

Sources: CScoutJapan and Chokkanband.

Categories
Architecture

Highway in the 5th floor

This is one of my favorite buildings in Osaka:

Autopista elevada

I had taken many pictures of this building but I never thought of approaching to it. Anenglishmaninosaka did it, and he took this building directory picture:

Autopista elevada
It says “Highway from the 5th until the 7th floor”. I wonder if there is something else in the building…

Autopista elevada
I wonder if inside it looks like this.

Categories
Tokyo

Tranquil time in Tokyo

One of the best things I like about Tokyo is that, even though it is one of the most populated cities in the world, if you walk away five minutes from any train station you can find places that metaphorically transport you outside of Tokyo. Sometimes I have the feeling I’m not in Tokyo but in a little village lost in the mountains.

This picture was taken three minutes walking from this other picture last Sunday. There is a kid playing with his Nintendo DS in a park.

sangubashi

sangubashi
And if you look at the top-right corner there is an old woman taking care of the park’s garden.

sangubashi
I walked towards the old woman, and yes! she was “guerrilla gardening”.

sangubashi
I walked by again four hours later and she was still there. But the kid was not.

Name of the post inspired by Tokyo Times “Tranquil time” series.