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From Joe Sabia — the videographer who made Tupac in Kazakhstan and this morning's Thankful Oscars video — comes this wonderful rendition of Weezer's Can't Stop Partying featuring random people from Tokyo, Kyoto, and Hiroshima. Sabia took a trip to Japan in November, and over the course of six days, showed the below note to folks he met on the street. "It basically says hey, how are you, I'm doing a project and I'd really like for you to repeat what I say in English," he tells me. "A United Airlines stewardess translated it for me just before I got off the plane." Sabia hopes to do this in all the countries he visits from now on, although he doesn't yet know where he's going next....
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Posted by on under limousine company, squaddies, taxi service, aromatic oil, female drivers, humble beginning, fri, ly, competitor, nih, stati, local area, ace, electricity, belief that, tokyo, initiative, nbsp, cars, job |
Good to see the
i MiEV is adding to its résumé -- which already includes the job of
ferrying Geek Squaddies about the place -- with a new position as a specialist taxi service in select districts of Tokyo. Launched yesterday, this new Zero Taxi initiative aims to attract customers with its zero emissions (from the car, the electricity used might still be produced in a polluting way) appeal, aromatic oil-scented cabin, and primarily female drivers who'll be trained to provide local area and tourist info. We're just reporting here, don't blame us for the Hinomaru Limousine Company's belief that a man can't be as good a tour guide as a woman. It's a humble beginning since the company's only deploying two i MiEVs for now, but local competitor
Nihon Kotsu is also preparing to join the fray, and is currently testing out a
Better Place battery-swapping station that should keep its cars where they need to be -- on the road.
Mitsubish i MiEV gets a job as an oil-scented taxi in Tokyo originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under beam saber, 30th anniversary, shizuoka, second life, figurines, erection, nbsp, tokyo |
Joining Tokyo's
life-sized Gundam statue, the
second life-sized Gundam has started being built in Shizuoka for its July 24th unveil. It'll hold a massive beam saber, and will mark the 30th anniversary of the Gundam plastic figurines. [
JapanToday via
Kotaku]
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Only days after finding out that Tokyo's oldest man had been dead for 30 years, Japanese officials got another surprise: The capital's oldest woman hasn't been seen for decades. Fusa Furuya was said to be 113 and listed as living with her daughter, but when officials went to investigate they were told the mother's whereabouts were unknown. Ooops?
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Posted by on under ralph de la vega, launch event, steve ballmer, de la vega, engadget, windows phone, new hardware, live coverage, ld, senses, moscow, nbsp, amp, tokyo, universe, hawaii, microsoft, sun |
As you may
have heard, Microsoft is having a major event tomorrow in NYC to announce details surrounding Windows Phone 7 launch dates and devices... and Engadget is going to be there delivering the best live coverage in the universe. In case you don't already know, Steve Ballmer and AT&T's Ralph de la Vega will be on stage to delight your senses, and there will likely be lots of new hardware we'll be getting our hands on.
You can see all of the news unfold in realtime
right here at our liveblog post, and the whole thing starts tomorrow,
October 11th, at the times listed below. Don't miss it!
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Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 launch event is tomorrow at 9:30AM ET, and we'll be there live! originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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