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A Man Needs a Mother - Japan's Otaku Culture Dumps the Maid
In a cafe deep in the heart of Amerikamura, Osaka, tables of otaku are sitting down to tea and cake with women old enough to be their mothers. Mother Café is an otaku fetishist establishment staffed with women that give off a motherly vibe; maid cafés are so yesterday.More »
robots
Robovie Robot Helps Lost Shoppers, Creates Trouser Mess in Aisle 4
A series of demo runs were held with the Robovie robot in the Universal Citywalk Osaka shopping center earlier this week in Japan trying to see how good the droid is at helping out lost shoppers. Here's how it works. More »
architecture
Beautiful Japanese Building to be Covered in Puke
Japan is set to launch its first building-mounted free-fall ride in an exterior wall of Osaka's $157 million 12-story namBa H!PS entertainment complex set to open this December. The ride will provide guests with a beautiful view of the city right before it drops them 200 feet down the side of the building at 50 mph. This will undoubtedly result in an all-natural, and rather rancid type of graffiti adorning the building—not to mention one seriously pissed off janitor. [Pink Tentacle]
stairway to heaven
World's Tallest Escalator, Another Day at the Mall
Thirty-nine stories in the air, the glass-enclosed escalator at the Floating Garden Observatory in Osaka's Umeda Sky Building is...well, our feelings are best summed up by a Frommer's writer:
I'm not afraid of heights, but taking an escalator over thin air in an earthquake-plagued nation certainly caught my attention; it made the "floating" observatory feel safe in comparison.Just make sure you tie your laces, lest you be sucked under the escalator and dropped 36 floors to your death.
[techeblog]
