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I won’t pretend like this cat looks like she loves wearing this Catbus costume, but it is such a great idea. No one can pull off Catbus quite like a cat.
In fact, it barely has legs at all, designer Kogoro Kurata having wisely opted for wheeled instead of walking locomotion for his extremely impressive first attempt at de-fictionalizing the ubiquitous giant fighting robot of Japanese pop culture. His project site at Suidobashi Heavy Industries has been up for more than a year, and includes an impressive “build to order” system that lets you specify factory options for your fighting machine ranging from various weapons systems, to upgraded armor, to genuine leather seats and custom paint jobs. The price is updated in real time, as you go, and the whole thing even wraps up with a buy-it-now button.
What’s being called the world’s first 3D printing photo booth will be available Nov. 24 through Jan. 14 at an exhibition space in Tokyo’s Harajuku district.
Making Connections By Laura Cochrane Photography by John Keatley Neatly lined up along the walls of Len Cullum’s 1,500-square-foot north Seattle workshop are handmade Japanese chisels, saws, and planes. In a building rumored to have once been a shark oil processing plant, Cullum, 46, creates Japanese-style shoji doors and windows, garden structures, and furniture. Cullum constructs […]
Artist and designer Yuri Suzuki created a working AM/FM radio on a PCB, with the copper tracks and silk screening influenced by the iconic London Underground map, drawn by engineering draftsman Harry Beck in 1931. In fact, Beck specialized in drawing electrical schematics, so his map of the Tube is more of a schematic, since, in […]
Tokyo’s Fab Cafe is a place where people can sip coffee and design things to be fabricated on the spot using FabCafe’s in-house laser cutter.
