Our photographer (gravure Idol, VJ, writer, otaku philosopher) Julie just recorded a track for the cult otaku hardcore compilation that will be released on 26 december by the Japanese label HobiRecords.

『真・凌辱HARDCORE ～エロスの饗宴～』
■No：HBCS-106
■JAN：4520424250233
■2,500(Tax in)
■Release：2008/12/26

Tomorrow I'm going to an event organized by my favourire Chiptune label: VORC RECORDS (I'm double happy since this event is held in my new favourite club in Tokyo Amate-raxi that's basically the legendary Maniac Love moved to Shibuya)...

I'm going to Ikea in Funabashi to get my Christmas tree.  ikea got definitely the best deal in Tokyo: 2000 yen for a small tree is 10 times cheaper than average cost down here!
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And there are some idiots still thinking that Swiss is just Banks, Chocolate and Coocoos watches...
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Gyazo is my favourite tool for fast "photo tublring": select an area of your screen and the image is directly uploaded to Gyazo server so you can post it on your blog in few seconds...

Gyazo forWindows and Gyazo for Linux are now available! New!
Gyazo for Tumblr is now available! New! Gyazowin for Tumblr

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Nikkeipb posted photos of the chinese Fake iphone tear down... pachimono at its best!!
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(via Mark Frauenfelder) Make blog, posted a great  guide to Guide to chemistry sets and books. I always been obsessed with these kits and 15 years ago I made a cover of Ultraman playing with a chemistry set for a techno zine I edited for the Italian cult techno label ACV records. When I'm back to my secret base in Rome I should scan it and post! Anyway, after all these years, I still wait for a chemistry set Erowid edition!
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I just found this ubergeek infodesign flash page... useless... I love it!
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I'm watching the Japanese version of the YouTube Live celebration (heil in Odaiba). _

Finally a really useful USB gadget that will make Japanese Bento chefs  happy: the USB Lunch Bag that keeps your bento hot till you eat it!!! On sale on Thanko: The rare mono shop!
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Yesterday, I had a meeting in Tokyo Mid Town and so took a chance to visit dome forniture shops where I discovered this super cool Radio Controlled Table. I tough it was a creation of a DIY shop owner or something from the recent Tokyo Designers Week instead Google teached me that this is the Free Wheelin Franklin remote control table designed by JERSZY SEYMOUR  in 2000. The plastic table features a number so it's possible to race more table at once ^_^  and is named after a crazy character from the 60s cult comic The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.  I'm an RC cars maniac so I love these tables and look foward to buy one and swap the cheap Chinese rc car with a nitro monster truck from my collection!

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Sputzkaizer, the same guy behing the Fate/Stay Night DS version has just released Touhou DS: a Nintendo port of one of the doujin games related to the legendary Touhou Universe created by a Japanese game maker ZUN who actually is in charge of all the graphics, music, and programming of these danmaku shooting games. Strange fact is that ZUN actually works for TAITO but it seems that the company that inveted the Shooting Games with Space Invaders was niot interested in this (super succesfull) project... 
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Datel (not my favourite brand after the useless Freeloader for PAL Game Cubes) announced the LITE BLUE TOOL a new tool battery that enable the service mode on both PSP 2000 and PSP 3000 models. Service mode means that you can downgrade the PSP and paly with your favourie "homebrews"... This special battery will let the user switch between service mode and normal mode, and also features a LED power gauge. On sale  on November 28th at around 25 euro. Sounds like the perfect Christmas presents for all videogame hackers...
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PlanKtroniks, during the recent Analog Synth Builders Summit 2008, showed a mini sequencer for the Gakken SX-150 analog synth. Finally he posted the schematic to build it. Plan K troniks is a really cool guy and as I discovered during the Synth Builders Summit he creates really interesting music machines...
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Sorry Engadget, but I think Japanese girls (both 2D and 3D) are better than techno gadgets (maybe this is just love for my new super sexy AV star girlfriend) so whenever I got the chance I post some sexy photos on the Italian website modellismo hobby media...
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Blasterhead (electronic musician and DJ famous for many eroge super hits) played a great DJ set yesterday at DENPA 8 party held in club Axciss in Shibuya. I had a really great time at the party with a mixed crowd of otaku, clubbers and super sexy cosplayers!

Tomorrow I'm going to the DENPA 8 party held in club Axciss in Shibuya (the same club that hosted the DS-10 expo few weeks ago). This great otaku electro party is organized in collaboration with the Japanese television SPACE SHOWER TV (my super favourite music channel in Japan)!!! I really look foward to hear the Blasterhead and DAX live shows!
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For the Italian readers of this blog I would like to remind that BAKUC 2008, the modelling contest organized by Hobby Media in collaboration with BANDAI, is about to finish so if you got some photos of your Gundam kits you should mail em asap to try to win a trip to Hong Kong or some Gundam kits offered by BANDAI. TIP:  Send as many photos as possible to get more chances to win!
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Meggy Jr RGB is a new Kit designed as a platform to develop handheld pixel games. MEggy looks like a Gameboy from the Seventies and got a super cool design! It's based around a fully addressable 8x8 RGB LED matrix display. The kit is driven by an ATmega168 microcontroller, and you can write your own games or or control it through the Arduino development environment. Prices range from $65 to $95 so it's a perfect Christmas present for all videogame hackers out there!
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This morning by Japanese provider was so kind to give me back my BB Internet connection. The first thing I checked was the new MotorStorm 2 promo video featuring "John Kaminari" (and old Italian friend who worked for my publishing company and now is working in Japan as actor). The video is simply ilarious and even tough made for the Japanese market is 99% in Italian language with Japanese subititles. Pure genious!!!!

Make magazine publisher a great how to mod your iPod Touch to use it for Voip! Basically how to turn your iPod Touch into a wifi mobile phone (that for me is even better than a real iPhone). The only thing that is needed is Apple like design for this mod but I'm pretty sure some chinese companies are already working on a "official version"...

What better than this flash game to celebrate to historical election of Barack Obama as new President of USA?!
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Few months ago I discovered this Google Maps page that points to real places featured in anime and videogames (basically eroge). This kind of reality mix started over 10 years ago and has been featured several times by the Japanese cult magazine GAME LABO but the use of Google Maps takes this on a totally different level!

Just click on this  Google Maps page to find where you can find real places of Suzumiya Haruhi or your favourire anime...

 

 

I'm sure this is old but living in Japan I'm impressed that on US Amazon is possible to buy these uber geek Nintendo GameCube retrogame candies!
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The Japanese porno powerhouse TMA will release an adult video parody of Idol M@ster videogame... This shameful DVD will be out in Japan on January 16th...
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Make Magazine, the DIY mag directed by my steampunk superhero Mark Frauenfelder (from Boing Boing fame), got a super cover  created by none other than MAD Magazine art director Sam Viviano!!
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