Long time, no post, and so gentle reader, to make up for my absence, I bring you, vintage, surrealist manga


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There's even one which can ride a unicycle!

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I can't even begin to imagine how to program a device to do such things as balance on a unicycle. In fact, I'm not sure I could balance on a unicycle, and I have one of those trusty, old-fashioned organic brains with neurons.

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Shibuya Station is one of the places which minouette found a bit over-whelming when she lived in Tokyo. Imagine, how it felt to this macaque?

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3. "Firefly squid: This blue-glowing squid, Japan’s most famous bioluminescent creature, measures 5 to 7 centimeters long and is often found at depths greater than 200 meters. In spring, when firefly squid rise to the surface to spawn en masse, they become Toyama’s great tourist attraction and end up on ( Read more... )

More creepy than kawaii, especially since she loves Hello Kitty, Kokoro has introduced the Actroid DER2 feminine guide robot at Sanrio headquarters in Tokyo on October 4. Sorry, I must have been hibernating- I missed that news item.

Thanks to Pink Tentacle for this information. See also other robot updates and the CatBot below!
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