5 Free Things to Do in Tokyo, Japan. Any list of the world’s most expensive cities includes Tokyo, Japan. Visiting a city that is so atrociously expensive can be daunting for any traveler on a budget; however, despite the expensive cost of hotels and transportation around the country, sight-seeing in Tokyo can be a bargain. Here’s a list of five great things to see in Tokyo, Japan for free. Constructed in 1993, the Rainbow Bridge connects Shibaura Pier with Odaiba, an upscale waterfront district. The bridge is over 700 meters long and provides excellent views of Tokyo. The Rainbow Bridge is a fantastic place to visit at sunset as you can see the city as the lights come on. A walk across the bridge takes about an hour, counting the walk to the subway station on either end, though it could take longer depending on how often you stop to take photos.
There is a walkway on either side of the bridge, with the northern side providing much better views of the city. Trying out a personal 3D TV viewer at the Sony Showroom. Kids Turn White Room into Explosion of Color. Jan 7, 2012 The Obliteration Room 2011 revisits the popular interactive children’s project developed by Yayoi Kusama for the Queensland Art Gallery’s ‘APT 2002: Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’. In this reworked and enlarged installation, an Australian domestic environment is recreated in the gallery space, complete with locally sourced furniture and ornamentation, all of which has been painted completely white.
While this may suggest an everyday topography drained of all colour and specificity, it also functions as a blank canvas to be invigorated — or, in Kusama’s vocabulary, ‘obliterated’ — through the application, to every available surface, of brightly coloured stickers in the shape of dots. As with many of Kusama’s installations, the work is disarmingly simple in its elemental composition; however, it brilliantly exploits the framework of its presentation. Sources If you enjoyed this post, the Sifter highly recommends: Interactive Art Installation Turns People into Daredevils. Jan 29, 2012 Currently on display at Le 104 in Paris, artist Leandro Erlich’s ‘Bâtiment’ (building) is an incredible an highly interactive art installation that is part of the In_Perceptions exhibition that is open until March 4, 2012. The illusion is achieved by recreating an entire building facade on the ground and installing a gigantic mirror tilted 45 degrees; creating wonderful photo opportunities of people seemingly dangling from windows and ledges, or whatever else you can think of!
It’s playful, interactive, and all kinds of awesome. Would be fantastic to see this installation using different scenes Sources - In_Perceptions exhibition at Le 104 in Paris, France - Artist Leandro Erlich’s Official Site - First spotted on Reddit If you enjoyed this article, the Sifter highly recommends. A Journey into Hi-Tech World. The Future Of Air Travel: Sky-Surfing On A Giant Zeppelin | Co.Design. Japanese Construction Company Plans Space Elevator By 2050. 11 cheap gifts guaranteed to impress science geeks. Science comes up with a lot of awesome stuff, and you don't need a Ph.D, a secret lab, or government funding to get your hands on some of the coolest discoveries. We've got a list of 11 mostly affordable gifts that are guaranteed to blow your mind, whether or not you're a science geek.
Click on any image to see it enlarged. 1. Aerogel Also known as frozen smoke, Aerogel is the world's lowest density solid, clocking in at 96% air. It's basically just a gel made from silicon, except all the liquid has been taken out and replaced with gas instead. Aerogel isn't just neat, it's useful. Price: $35 2. Inside these sealed glass balls live shrimp, algae, and bacteria, all swimming around in filtered seawater. EcoSpheres came out of research looking at ways to develop self-contained ecosystems for long duration space travel. Price: $80 3. NASA has been trying to figure out how to get a sample of rock back from Mars for a while now. Price: $70+ 4. Price: $150 5. Price: $110 6. Price: $80 7.
Price: $15 8. Scalado's Remove Lets You Eliminate The People Who Ruined Your Photo. Hell is other people, in your pictures. Meandering strangers have been the bane of photography since people stopped painting their vacations and started photographing them. With Remove, imaging technology company Scalado brings us one step closer to a world in which our photographs aren't so much record of where we were as they are a representation of what we would have liked that place to be.
Remove is a photographic tool for smartphones that allows for the ex post facto removal of errant moving objects -- cars, people, tumbleweeds from smartphone photographs. Given the ease with which ex lovers can now be removed from your snapshots (or, more optimistically, the ease with which you can perfect that photo of your special someone), HuffPostTech's Captain Gadget notes that having the technology debut on Valentine's Day, of all days, is "pretty perfect.
" Remove also allows users to erase intrusions manually, since you might want to leave the better looking tourists in the picture. Every 60s: Apple sells 925 iPhones, 2 million people watch porn, more. Apple sold 925 iPhone 4S handsets each minute during the device’s debut weekend, and it sells 81 iPads every 60 seconds on average. Research In Motion sells 103 BlackBerry phones, Amazon sells 18 Kindle Fire tablets and Microsoft sells 11 Xbox 360 consoles every minute. More than 700 computers are purchased around the world every 60 seconds, and 232 of them are infected by malware. That malware stat seems surprisingly low, however, when you consider that 2 million people watch online porn every minute. Read on for more. Website design firm GO-Globe recently spread a variety of technology-related stats out across an infographic and the result helps us put a lot of things in perspective. Beyond the scary amount of Internet porn watched around the world, we can see just how entrenched various consumer electronics and digital goods and services have become in modern life.
Every minute, $219,000 worth of payments are made using PayPal, $10,000 of which is sent from mobile devices. Double-Blind Violin Test: Can You Pick The Strad? : Deceptive Cadence. Hide captionIn a double-blind test by professional violinists, most couldn't determine — by sound alone — which violin was an original Stradivarius and which was a modern instrument. Above, a 1729 Stradivari known as the "Solomon, Ex-Lambert. " Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images In a double-blind test by professional violinists, most couldn't determine — by sound alone — which violin was an original Stradivarius and which was a modern instrument. Above, a 1729 Stradivari known as the "Solomon, Ex-Lambert. " In the world of violins, the names Stradivari and Guarneri are sacred. OK, here's a test. Violin Test 1: Strad Or Modern? Violin Test 2: Strad Or Modern? It's a tough choice. Well, a research team recently tried to find out.
Then the researchers told the musicians: These are all fine violins and at least one is a Stradivarius. Joseph Curtin, a violin-maker from Michigan, was one of the researchers. Claudia Fritz designed the experiment. Village in Italy Builds Giant Mirror to Combat 83 Days of Darkness. Feb 23, 2012 About 120 km (74.5 miles) northeast of Turin, Italy, lies a hamlet called Viganella. It’s a remote commune of a couple hundred German Buddhists situated at the bottom of a steep-sided Alpine valley, right up against the Swiss border. Every year from November 11th to February 2nd, the sun disappears for Viganella. The village square, which is described as the ‘living room’ for the entire hamlet empties out.
The people don’t gather to socialize and play and that bothers the Village Mayor, Pierfranco Midali. To combat this, the mayor came up with a novel solution. The mirror measures 8 meters by 5 meters (26 x 16 ft) and cost approximately 100,000 euros to buid and install. In a documentary entitled, The Mirror (Lo Specchio), director David Christensen captures the process of installing the giant mirror and the project’s affect on the lives of the people in the village and the surrounding valley. Relevant Sources. 10 Of The Oddest Headlines In 2011. 10 Of The Oddest Headlines In 2011 “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” 10 of the craziest news stories to hit the world in 2011. Why am I suddenly quoting Dickens, you may ask?
Well, apart from showing off my literary skills ( I jest), Dickens famous words hold true even today especially in the media frenzied world we reside in. Breaking news, twitter trends, 24/7 news channels have all resulted in a media overdose and a surfeit of information that the mind just tucks away! However, there are some headlines that not only leave a lasting impression, but also make you question the well-being of humanity. “Woman Tried To Sneak Inmate Husband Out Of Prison In Suitcase” Not satisfied (pardon the pun) with just a conjugal visit, 19-year-old Maria del Mar Arjona tried her own twisted version of Prison Break.
. “17-Year-Old Sells His Kidney For iPad 2″ Why save up money when you can just sell a body part to buy the Jesus Tablet? “Israeli Child Named After Facebook ‘Like’ Button” Taiwanese candidate uses massive Angry Birds installation for presidential campaign. How to Suck at Facebook. All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman. Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman. Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP.