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Little toys that fit right on those Japanese Coffee Cans. These are a series of Japanese Warlords! An amazing mini model kit. Each comes separately with a warlord, horse, and a flag. These horses have motors that allow them to move forward. Various shots. Fun. Names. Different view. Documents.

These fit perfectly on top of coffee cans. Choro-Q is a popular mini-car toy brand, I believe. Great details. My favorite: Honda S2000. They all have pull back motors. Super tiny documents!

These caps fit on the small sized Japanese canned coffee. Out of their little containers. Batmobile. Close-ups on all 10/10. These have magnets that allow the car to attach to the cans so they can run around without getting lost. Cars move by pulling back on the wheels. Documents included.

Over the past 2 years in Japan, one of my daily motivations to get to work was getting coffee. Canned coffee that come with awesome free toys! Obviously it’s a marketing tool to get coffee selling, but since all Japanese coffee tasted good enough it rather helped me quickly select my morning coffee rushing to [...]

I found a very pop Starbucks magazine with a branded photography book and playing cards at Shibuya, Junkudo! It was 780Yen, which I thought wasn’t bad at all, but also includes a 590Yen gift-card inside! What a great design. What a great Deal. My favorite Frappucchino is Green Tea, by the way. Search Amazon for [...]

Symptoms MacBook Trackpad won’t respond correctly. Cursor jumps up and down the screen. Frustration. Quick Answer Clean your trackpad! It hates oil, jewelry, and cheap power adapters. The Story So, my 2.3 GHz i5 MacBook Pro has been really glitchy with an uncontrollable trackpad/mouse for the past few days. The symptoms were that my cursor [...]

From 2-D to 3-D, 8-Bit to 64-Bit… Thank you, Mario! Still haven’t had enough of Mario? Well, you’re in luck! Dig deeper into the Super Mario world with this “Super Mario: 25 Years Celebration Book”! Good design, by the way. Posters! Stickers! Yum. The father of it all: Shigeru Miyamoto. Thank you for superb level-designs! [...]

Pretty awesome for a fan video! via [gizmodo]

She(Lain Trzaska) is amazing! I randomly stumbled to one of his tracks on 8Bit-Collective and was immediately struck by the chiptune influenced dance music. I wanted to learn more, and I found additional free tracks on his official website! Lain does many ambient tracks as well as tracks fun to dance to. Most of his [...]

Just soooo super kick ass and adorable at the same time! via [destructoid]

Found this ‘Usavich: Buchi-Kire (Super-Mad) Book’ at Ministop convenience store! Full coverage of who and how the mini-animation series were made. The characters never speak in the show, so I don’t know how much the names are of  significance. I didn’t know the series was a Japanese production. Really cool, though. Magazine comes with a [...]

Anamanaguchi is a really creative chiptunes band! I got their most recent album ‘Dawn Metropolis’ on iTunes. Really cool stuff. Who is Anamanaguhi? Via Wikipedia Anamanaguchi is a chiptune indie rock band from New York City that “makes loud, fast music with a hacked NES from 1985.” The band has four members: lead songwriter Peter [...]

Life in Japan 2011. Here are some publications I picked up this year representing major historical events in Japan. Nikkei Newspaper March 12, 2011: Tohoku Earthquake 2011… A day I will never forget. I pray for all who have been effected by the terrible disaster.   I uploaded detailed shots of the other publications on [...]

One of Japan’s 2011 Heroes are Nadesico Japan: World Cup Soccer champions! I actually haven’t seen the games, but they are the trending topics of this summer. I did get to see the last few moments of the championship live on television! Congratulations Japan! We hope great news like these will help encourage people in [...]

AKB48 Special Mook by Playboy Magazine Japan. AKB is a Japanese cultural phenomenon… It’s hard to explain, so visit the AKB48 wikipedia page for details! Includes full coverage of AKB48 General Election 2011 plus extras like posters and cards. This event had more media coverage and rates than Japan’s recent prime minister election… Playboy does [...]