February 02, 2010

Oh, Japan...

Japan has tons of hyper-realistic plastic food models to display outside of restaurants.

It also had lots of cool and weird technology.

Put them together, and you get... Wait, why would you put them together? No one knows but the Japanese. Still, we thought we'd seen it all when we saw these for sale in Tokyo:



We were wrong.



Yes - it's a USB extension inside a plastic dish of noodles, and you can attach little tempura shrimp flash drives to it. I really can't believe this exists.

Picture taken from: http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/25/usb-spaghetti-aka-cable-ga-napolitain/

1 comment:

Literacultura said...

Hey, I've seen it a time ago as an illustration for a book, "UN Geek En Japon" by Hector Garcia. He is a blogger, who works for Twitter Japan, living since some time ago in Japan and is going to publish his second book about Japan.
May you like his blog www.kirainet.com . There is a icon on the top wich says, "Eng", so you can read in English.
I really like this stuff: Food and technology in one. Is it comestible? (the food part)