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more about #tokyo more comments → pete1061: If, and I repeat IF, sea levels significantly rise, it will happen very slowly. people will just move with the shoreline, or they will build dikes to ... more » liveinabin: Ugh. We have to suffer the apocalypse AND High School Musical? No fair. more » Kirkaiya: The main photo, with the gondolas, looks very suspiciously like much of Bangkok, to be honest (which also has some 10 million or more people). I *lit... more » Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Optimistic Post Apocalyptic scenario? Not only people managed somehow to keep electricity, but also invented some way of purifying the putrid city wat... more » BeerManMike: All of these "imaginations" of future worlds don't take into account that the world has limited resources. Does everyone think we can build such thing... more » kalleboo: When I saw the thumbnail for this article in Top Sites I thought it was a picture of Osaka, which kind of looks like that. more » Intelext: I wanted to live in Post-Apocalypse New York after i saw "I am legend". Sleeping with a gun, hunting for food, breaking into random cars and driving t... more » Jacubious: Was the this apocalypse caused by raging estuaries? more » redrocketdesign001: It is widely understood that the melting of ice floating in the sea does not raise the sea level. Such floating ice displaces an amount of water equal... more » Hiphopopotamus: I admire their sense of priority - The A/C and MP3 controls obscure the view of the speedometer... #toyotaftev more » fuchikoma: Yuck... it makes me think of 1920s era dentist's equipment, yellowed with age. #toyotaftev more » ripfire: I like how it has a macchiato holder next to the steering. #toyotaftev more » Honest_rian: Finally! The steering wheel was invented or made standard in 1898. You would think there would be some major modifiction over the years since there ha... more » willy1134: Cool but scary. I'm afraid I might accidentally press the wrong button and end up in some bizarre future world where I'm captured by the menacing race... more » Barry99705: I'm digging the rear view displays. None of that muggle mirror thingies. #toyotaftev more » -
#architecture
I Wouldn't Mind Living in Post-Apocalypse New York
Is it too bad to say that I would actually like to live in a post-Apocalypse New York? I mean one without flesh-eating zombies or people killing each other for a bag of rotten Cheetos. One like this: More » -
#design
Driving This Toyota Will Feel Like Flying a Spaceship
I know the Toyota FT-EV is just an electric car prototype, but that doesn't make me want it any less. It makes my previously favorite car cockpit look like a Ford Pinto. Zoom in. More » -
#displays
Touch Display Actually Lets You Touch Real Thingies
Leave it to a Japanese team—leaded by Hideki Koike at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo—to develop a touch display that uses rubber to allow you to actually touch real three-dimensional thingies. Hideki, you got me at rubber. More » -
#exoskeletons
HAL Robo-Suit Exoskeleton Hits the Streets of Tokyo
Remember that HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) exoskeleton from the real-life Cyberdyne? Ahead of plans to rent the suit to those with mobility issues (or Iron Man fantasies), it's now being tested on the streets of Tokyo. Here's the video: More » -
#electronicmoney
Half Of Tokyoites Prefer to Wave Instead of Swiping and Counting
According to an online survey polling 2,250 Tokyo shoppers, over half prefer to use electronic money cards instead of cold hard cash or other tender. Will a similar trend follow in the States when such cards become commonly issued? More » -
#robots
And They Lived Happily Ever After... Until the Giant Gundam Smashed Them
OK my dearly beloved, I don't care if you dress up as characters from the anime series to get married under a full-size Gundam in Tokyo. Just don't get married, ok? Unless you get to leave flying the damn thing. More » -
#photography
Meet the Sartorialist of Tokyo's Film Camera Scene
As The Sartorialist goes around the world photographing people with incredible style, John Sypal goes around Tokyo, taking photos of people with incredible film cameras. Tokyoites do nerd obsession better than anyone else, and this is some gorgeous old-school equipment. More » -
#robots
Full-Size Gundam Get Attacked by Laser During Inaugural Ceremony
I am not a full-size Gundam in Tokyo—although I want to be one when I grow up—but if I were attacked with greeeeeen lasers during my inauguration ceremony, I would get pretty damn pissed off. Then I would destroy everything in sight, and go to have a carrot cake and coffee afterwards. [Mainichi Daily News] -
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#robots
Full Size Gundam Video: It Moves! It Moves!
Yes, not only it looks amazing at night but the full size Gundam protecting Tokyo right now actually moves, as this video shows. You can check all its details up close in these videos: More » -
#video
A Stop-Motion Tilt-Shift Tour of Tokyo Captures City of Miniatures
Exploring Tokyo by foot is a must-do trip, but it can't match the experience of viewing the city in stop-motion tilt-shift photography. The streets become one huge playset. More » -
#robots
Activated Full Size Gundam Robot Looks Totally, Absofrikinlutely ZOMG!
Holy frak. If you thought the 59-foot-tall Gundam in Tokyo was impressive when it was finished, you haven't seen it fully armed and operative at night. Beautiful and actually scary. Check the impressive close up: More » -
#robots
Tokyo's Life-Sized Gundam is Just About Finished
We've seen just the legs awkwardly standing there, but now we can witness the full scope of Tokyo's new 59-foot-tall Gundam statue. And it is awesome. -
#science
OLED Displays Go Rubbery
Researchers from the University of Tokyo have created OLED displays that have all the durability of a super ball. More » -
#imagecache
Stereographic Images Of Tokyo
Take a look at these trippy photos taken by Flickr user heiwa4126 using an ultra-wide fisheye lens. More » -
#peace
Mesmerizing Tokyo Timelapse Makes Me Want to Go Back on Holiday
I just came back from vacation straight into NY and the hard work of Gizmodo. This mesmerizing timelapse video of Tokyo—called Remanence:Variance "Experiment on Live Light"—is just what I needed to smooth me in. More » -
#japan
Japanese Cellphones Control This Giant Billboard Video Game
Nikkei has a post about Toshiba's new Digital Billboard in Tokyo's Akihabara district, where passerbys can dial up a number and connect to an interactive game which is displayed on the giant sign. More » -
#robots
59-Feet-Tall Gundam to Guard Tokyo Against Aliens, Enemy Robots
If you want to be safe against the potential attacks by aliens, enemy robots, and miscellaneous evil forces, move to Tokyo. There, a 59-feet Gundam will be guarding the city starting from this July. More » -
#tokyo
Tokyo Skyline Contrasts Against Grass Lawns in The Green Island Project
The Green Island Project asks the question "what would Tokyo look like if all its pavement were grass instead?" and answers it with an amazing series of pictures.
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#japan
Bandai's Amazing Ginza-Circa-1955 Animated Diorama Speaker: Captured On Video!
Remember this? The blinking lights, the working train, the little pedestrians, bobbing up and down in place, just waiting to be eaten by a still-unseen Godzilla-this thing is so fantastic. [Akihabara News] -
#mayhem
Volcano Eruption Caught on Webcams
Sometimes, those boring world webcams catch something exceptional, like this one near Mount Asama, an active volcano north of Tokyo which erupted without warning yesterday night. There are other beautiful frames from other angles. More »
