Considering the rather condensed nature of the vehicle, whether there is actually room left for a driver ‘in car’ is debatable to say the least.
(click for increased ‘in car’ image)
Photographs from a small group of islands
Due to the upcoming Japanese release of online role-playing game Nostale, model Azusa Yamamoto took part in a promotional event in Tokyo on Thursday, with the 25-year-old donning some role-playing-like regalia.
As Yamamoto-san’s outfit amply proves, the game perhaps predictably involves wandering around with the likes of swordsmen, archers and sorcerers. None of whom it seems have adventures near the beach and sport bikinis.
Which is a shame.
With the number of obesity cases rapidly rising throughout the world, a Japanese game show may have inadvertently stumbled upon an idea that could single-handedly reverse the trend — its revolutionary take on the humble exercise bike set to take the fitness industry by storm.
Whilst hopping on such a machine generally isn’t the most uplifting way to start the day, it’s a whole different ball game when the resultant pedal power is converted into electricity, which in turn lights up a nearby box containing a bikini-clad beauty.
A bit of friction-related fun that is guaranteed to firm up even the most flaccid of muscles in no time.
Whilst smokers in Japan are more likely to be coached in manners than coaxed to quit, the land of cigarette vending machines and baccy bras is not the heavy smoking haven it once was.
But although the rasping refugees in the comical commercial below would now more than likely find their fair share of smoke-free restaurants and some surprisingly rigid tobacco-related regulations, it doesn’t make the ad any less amusing.
(Huge thanks to Richard for the tip)
With cute being the characteristic that most Japanese consumers seem to crave, fire engine maker Morita Corporation would appear to have found itself a niche in the formerly frumpy world of kitchen-based fire extinguishers — cleverly coming up with this unique ‘fire fighting flower’.
The extinguisher’s ‘petals’ are used to put out fires in pans, and to ensure it is always ready at hand there is a magnet on the ‘stem’, allowing it to be kept on the refrigerator — providing of course there is space amongst the probable plethora of similarly attached Hello Kitty goods.
And like all Japanese products worth its salt, the device comes with relatively comical cartoon-like instructions.