Internet Siao

You may have seen the Nokia N96 commercial of Bruce Lee playing ping pong with the nunchucks, but unfortunately it’s all made with special effects. How about looking at real-life mastery instead — A Japanese guy using nunchucks to hit baseballs!

This is a clip showing an actual martial arts master who has perfected the art of hitting baseballs with the nunchaku. Now, will he take his nunchucking skills to the next level and use it for table tennis instead?

[japanprobe]

What is the process of baconizing your website? Well it is simply adding a slice of yummy bacon with a santa hat across a webpage. If for any reason you need that piece of salty, juicy meat to flavor a website, just add the url of any website to the end of “http://bacolicio.us/” and you’re done!

For example, entering http://bacolicio.us/http://internetsiao.com in your address bar gets a huge piece of Christmas bacon on the front page.

Here’s how Internet Siao looks like after being baconized:

What happens is that the bacon will be layered dynamically on the webpage. When I first saw this I thought it looked meaningless but then on second thought it could be fun to do this as a prank by replacing the entire bookmark list on a friend or colleague’s browser with baconized urls. >:]

While it looks funny, I think it’ll could be quite rude to play the prank on a vegetarian or vegan. Bacon slapped across the page of a veggie lover’s website? Go figure.

[technabob]

1. A house decorated with a ton of lights that synchronize to holiday music. The Amazing Light Show Christmas House (Video).

2. A Christmas tree decorated with 8-bit pixelated Mario ornaments. The Mario Christmas Tree.

3. A very Japanese Christmas. Close-up photography of Christmas in Tokyo by Jason Collin.

A couple Shoryukens short of a knockout? This energy drink will make sure you stay awake while fighting the sleep devil.

While I wonder whether it has actually been licensed by Capcom to be sold as a product, this Dragon Punch energy drink with Ken endorsing the label should probably make any Street Fighter fan punch a fist with vigor into the air after having its cherry-flavored sugary contents dunked down the throat. Just make sure you don’t uppercut your boss by mistake.

[technabob]

If travelling on a emission-free transportation such as a bicycle or a pair rollerblades looks a little too common, check out this special arm-powered four-wheeled vehicle.

Instead of being leg-powered, this Champiot quadcycle requires a rowing motion to set it moving. This is probably suitable for rowing enthusiasts who would love to have a specialized full-body workout while travelling on the streets instead of heading off to a lake or hitting the gym.

The design looks rather ingenious and it is almost an exact reversal of muscle coordination compared to the traditional way of cycling. From the picture above, I believe that the ‘rower’ of the quadcycle will need to use his/her legs to control the direction instead of using arms.

The cost of owning this unusual transportation equipment is set at $999 a piece.

[dvice]

Fancy a couple of bandmates backing you up while you’re pretending to play a couple of riffs from your favorite songs? The Live Jam 3 band-mates will do just that. These bandmates are capable of playing their own instruments as the keyboardist, drummer or guitarist but when combined they bring on the rock band spirit to your room with their pre-loaded tunes and flashing lights.

If you prefer to let them play your songs instead, simply plug the audio output jack of your media device into the system and the band-mates will start jamming to your tunes live.

[chipchick]

If you think having a normal plastic keyboard isn’t enough, then this black leather Gokukawa keyboard from Japan should answer the call. Each key including the shell of the keyboard is encased in luscious rich leather that will make your fingers feel like they’re in heaven.

The price for comfort comes at a rather high price though. The standard model comes at a price tag of $548 while the model that comes with letters and numbers engraved on the keys will set you back by about $603.

[technabob]

Can you make this guy break through all the ice walls? Click on the mouse at the right moment to make the running man punch out the oncoming ice walls.

[iamboredr]

How cool would it be to play Warcraft 3 and potentially any other RTS game with a multi-touch screen? Instead of using the mouse, all you need is to touch the screen with your fingers to instruct your minions to do the work.

The PQ Labs multi-touch screen demonstrated in the video above is a multi-touch capable screen that can be laid over any existing plasma or LCD TV. The screen does not need any complex configuration and connects via standard USB connection. With the screen deployed, all the user needs to do is to use the touch-screen instead of the mouse as the pointing interface.

Springfield is a small city where one of TV’s popular obnoxious family lives, but how many of you know that much thought has been put down in the planning of the city that the Simpson’s live in? In fact, there is such a map that actually displays the entire layout of the city so real you may have thought it existed.

Check out this interactive map of Springfield that shows the entire city in a ‘Google street-view’ interactive format of the cartoon family’s hometown. Here are some shots of the more recognizable landmarks often featured in the cartoon.

Springfield Elementary:

Apu’s Kwik-E-Mart:

Krusty Burger:

Moe’s Tavern:

Mr Burns’ Nuclear Power Plant (where Homer and his buddies work):