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A Real-Life Robotic Avatar Turns You Into a Machine
Avatar has taken one giant leap towards becoming real thanks to some Japanese robotics boffins. Their new Telesar V gives wearers of a head-mounted display, some vest-mounted sensors and a special pair...
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The Latest Tokyo Flash Watch Hides the Time in a Maze
Tokyo Flash is the go-to watch brand for people who don’t care what time it is. Here’s its latest creation, which hides the time in the negative space of a maze. The Kisai Maze is labyrinthine in its...
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Take a Hypnotic Trip on Tokyo’s Automatic Rails
You are not watching CGI. Despite the kaleidoscope of colours and shapes rising from the infinite horizon, this is all real footage of the 12-mile Yurikamome line in Tokyo. Hold onto your butts. The...
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Tokyo Will Retrofit Its Skyscrapers To Prep For the Next Big Quake
Mass dampers—the gigantic weights designed to counteract swaying in skyscrapers—are usually installed during the construction process. But today, a Japanese real estate company announced plans to...
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This Insanely High-Res Panorama Will Make You Feel Like a Super-Spy
Ever visit Tokyo? No? No problem. Messing around in this ridiculous 180-gigapixel, 600,000-pixel wide panorama is practically the same thing, and you can do it right from this browser window. Brought...
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This Downtown Tokyo Office Tower Contains a Vibrant Vertical Farm
In technology-obsessed Japan, farming doesn’t exactly top the list of desirable jobs. But a staffing company in Tokyo’s financial district is using its own office space to illustrate cutting-edge...
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Tokyo’s Clever Plan to Retrofit 1964 Olympic Stadia for the 2020 Games
Tokyo was chosen as the host of the 2020 Olympics this weekend, based on a $5 billion (£3.2 billion) bid that’s surprisingly slim compared to the money spent by other recent host cities. The crux of...
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Tokyo Is Rethinking Its Gargantuan Olympic Stadium
A coalition of Japanese architects have said what everyone else was too polite to say: That Zaha Hadid designed stadium is just too big, too expensive, and too impractical. Japanese officials have...
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