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Tokyo Design Week 2008: 100% Design Tokyo - ChairsThere was a strong showing of chairs and lighting at this year's edition of 100% Design Tokyo. Among the many examples of innovative chair design were the Ouch! by Yutaka Yanagisawa, Bambi chairs by Books, and Moya Moya Hiroshi Yoneya. The Balloon by Ken Yokogawa is a very inviting piece of sea... |
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Your Economics for Dummies Questions AnsweredSean Masaki Flynn Last week, we solicited your questions for Sean Masaki Flynn, author of Economics for Dummies. In his answers below, Flynn addresses the economics of education, the relationship between aikido and economics, the importance of understanding opportunity costs, and how good shoe... |
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Face Visualizer project turns us all into meat puppetsEngadget Japan had the chance to sit down with sound artist, Daito Manabe, front man to the Face Visualizer designed by Masaki Teruoka and built by Katsuhiko Harada. No, the music is not controlled by facial contortions. Rather, Daito-san's face is twisted to the music via electrical-pulse stimu... |
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Sony Says PS3 Surfs Internet Faster Than Internet Explorer 7 [PS3]Good news, PS3 firmware 2.5 is bringing Flash 9 support to consoles. Sony started working to get Flash 9 working on the PS3 a year ago and had to customize it to get the software running. The console's online speed is getting improved, too. According to Sony Computer Entertainment, the 2.5 firmwa... |
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Ask the Guy Who Wrote Economics for DummiesSean Masaki Flynn says he is "mildly notorious" among his friends for being the author of the best-selling Economics for Dummies. Sean Masaki Flynn But the best part of doing the book: The six foreign translations; and having current and former students send me cellphone pictures f... |
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"The Human Condition:" A sweeping view of how war shapes relationshipsThere are few explicit battle scenes in Masaki Kobayashi's monumental "The Human Condition," yet the visage of war is present in every moment of its nearly 10-hour running time. ... |
