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Wonderwall’s Uniquely Fluid Site Reacts to Mouse and Browser History

Wonderwall's Uniquely Fluid Site Reacts to Mouse and Browser History

Design site Wonderwall employs a unique user interface that dynamically reacts to a user’s mouse, responding based on browser history.

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Small Scale Rice Farming in Japan

Small Scale Rice Farming in Japan

Rice farming usually conjures mental images of vast, sprawling rice paddies. That’s not always the case, as Tokyo Green Space recently discovered.

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Good Ideas Salon Tokyo: 3 Questions for Peter Rojas

Good Ideas Salon Tokyo: 3 Questions for Peter Rojas

PSFK asks Peter Rojas, one of our panel members at the upcoming Good Ideas Salon Tokyo, what pure living means to him.

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Japanese Suit To Protect Against Swine Flu

Japanese Suit To Protect Against Swine Flu

Haruyama Trading Co. of Okayama, Japan has developed a suit for men which promises to guard the wearer against swine flu.

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Ogori Cafe: Service With a Surprise

Ogori Cafe: Service With a Surprise

Cabel Saasser brings word of a mysterious cafe that he recently experienced in Kashiwa in Japan. Located inside the Urban Design Center Kashiwa-no-ha, the Ogori cafe looks innocuous enough, but holds a surprise in store for its patrons.

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Mio I-zawa: Throbbing Tumors And Hearts With Wheels

Mio I-zawa: Throbbing Tumors And Hearts With Wheels

Mio I-zawa is a Japanese interactive media artist that utilizes flesh-like masses of material that resemble hearts, tumors, and skin cells. These items are placed into situations where they interact with computers, humans, or both.

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Wooden Mobile Phone Prototype Unveiled in Japan

Wooden Mobile Phone Prototype Unveiled in Japan

Japanese mobile phone monolith Docomo has developed a mobile phone called the “Touch Wood” built from the excess wood collected during forest thinning.

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12 Amazing Japanese Robots

12 Amazing Japanese Robots

Advancements in robotics are being made at a rapid pace. From machines that carry out tedious domestic tasks to highly specialized devices, we’ve gathered a selection of innovative robots from Japan.

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Retro Cameras from the Streets of Tokyo

Retro Cameras from the Streets of Tokyo

Old cameras are becoming a stylish accessory, and in Japan the youth eagerly show off their retro cameras to the Tokyo Camera Style blog.

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Ingenious Label Design Ensures Food Safety

Ingenious Label Design Ensures Food Safety

TO-GENKYO has designed an innovative hourglass shaped label for packaged meat which uses a special ink that changes color as ammonia is released inside the package.

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Robotic Calisthenics

Robotic Calisthenics

Taizo is a robot built by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan, designed specifically to lead the elderly in exercise.

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How Google Handles Your Street View Privacy

How Google Handles Your Street View Privacy

A video created by Google Japan that helps explain the process that the tech company undertakes to ensure the privacy of the people and property they photograph for their Street View function of their Maps service.

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Creative Inspiration from Behance II

Creative Inspiration from Behance II

Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Every Wednesday, Behance shares 5 fresh art and design projects from their network with PSFK.

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Creature Comfort: Japanese Cafes Offer Animal Companionship

Creature Comfort: Japanese Cafes Offer Animal Companionship

A Japanese cafe concept that’s quite popular is the pet cafe, where stressed locals can gather to enjoy a meal, a beverage, and some relaxing companionship with a rabbit, cat, or dog.

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(Pic) Decorative Solar Panel Lamps

(Pic) Decorative Solar Panel Lamps

Sony has released a series of lamp shades made of solar energy panels. Each side is coated with dye-sensitized solar cells that mimic photosynthesis by collecting sunlight during the day to power lamps at night.

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