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Fungus Amungus of Flickr made these Munny figures.

And with the same cuteness factor, dolls of Jason Siu. (via make)

Slobsofgaming collected eleven of their take on the eleven hottest female cosplayers, from mystery Mai Shiranui cosplayers to Francesca Dani, pay extra tribute to Yaya Han and the girl on the photo above, Nozomi/Rave. If you look at the pics very intently, though, you’ll come up with the same thought that one of the guys in the comments did. Very different girls. (link to collection)

Dawe sends us this gallery taken from FHM China, originally shot by Chen Zhun. (gallery at designyoutrust)

The Yamaha-branded DEUS EX MACHINA concept is a motorcycle exoskeleton with 7 artificial vertebra and a pneumatically attached helmet. The motor is in-wheel, powered by ultra-capacitors and doped nano-phoshpate batteries similar to those already used in hybrids. It’s also capable of 0–60mph in three seconds. Top speed is 75mph with a recharge time of 15 minutes and cycle time of one hour, adds Hell for Leather.

The concept was created by Art Center College of Design student Jake Loniak and according to Engadget, that’s an electric, single passenger, vertically parking, wearable motorcycle, and the bike would theoretically be controlled via 36 pneumatic muscles and 2 linear actuators.

Dundee University student Scott Hobbs is all responsible for the new zeitgeist here. DJ’s can use the ATTIGO TT touch screen turntable for looping, sampling and scratching waveforms, the size is basically the same as a standard turntable and what you can see on the vid is a working prototype. (via psfk)

A második reggelünk a kávéról, a pornónegyedről és a wifi üvöltő hiányáról szól. Nem tévedünk el a már teljesen feltérképezetlen területeken sem, ezért cserébe viszont folyamatosan esik, amikor nem, akkor kávét nem találunk. Ráakadunk viszont egy olyan boltra, ahol 50 euróért azonnal magunkévá tehetnénk az Appleseed Ex Machinát, kicsivel olcsóbban az első Blame! kötetet, aztán maradunk mégis a biztos Vapianonál (ami, jut eszembe, a Deákon is megtalálható már), a város pedig ragyogóan néz ki teleszórva a dél-koreai tévéműsorokkal, az égbe szökő várostornyokkal, az eurójeles szoborral, a kimérten-szikáran sietős, tehetősnek tűnő pornómozi- és bordélylátogatókkal, Marty meg nyilván nem akar basejumpolni továbbra sem az égből. Második napunk a Nippon Connectionben, Frankfurtban.

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Sinred sends us this wonderful piece of cosplayness. [via somewhere along the lines of myconfinedspace]

Something close to [another étape of Hungarian cyberpunk] is coming along. Marvin, an active member of the LD50 community (which is, if you’re a new visitor here or something, the definitive Hungarian community portal for people with alternative minds and tastes for music and stuff) has his book of short stories published after a loooong time: entitled Külső gyermek (or Outer Child).

If you’re English, please be aware - his Hungarian takes a huge effort to translate into English, it’s not just ironic and gritty, it’s dense and has a few layers that are very hard to decode even for us, who’re into the same kind of stuff that he is. (Except for RPGs, of which he’s a massive fan. We’re not that much.) Book design made by me and if there is a god (or something close to it), it’ll make me redesign this into one fancy piece of art.

Here’s the original Hungarian press material and the thread of comments on ld50.hu

The beautiful violence of Wanted’s Russian trailer just makes the movie more appealing than it actually looked like a couple of days ago: gratuituous violence, skullfucking trajectory physics as we know it, sniper scenes on par with Golgo 13 and of course, Angelina Jolie. This has glorious office violence, sniper rifle porn and unreal car sideflips. But this one’s been done by Timur Bekmambetov and this means it can’t be bad at all.

Sugoi! If you’re such an old fart as myself (and I’m sorry but ladies can also qualify as farts, you’ll probably hate me for this), you surely remember the charity song We are the world that brought lots of mainstream singers under one roof from Cyndi Lauper to Stevie Wonder (whom recently Zoog from Angelspit had publicly recommended to you all. Shocking, isn’t it?). Now this is all done by Japanese impersonators and even by my standards (and trust me, I’ve seen a lot of this kind of stuff) this is amazing.