I sometimes wish that people's personalities were printed on their forehead, so I could stop wasting my time on the obnoxious and stupid ones. This comes pretty close to fulfilling that wish.
So snobbish, yet I completely agree with you.
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#12I sometimes wish that people's personalities were printed on their forehead, so I could stop wasting my time on the obnoxious and stupid ones. This comes pretty close to fulfilling that wish.
Out of curiosity, how do you feel about folks with tattoos?
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#13I think JWZ put it best when he said "Dear Japanese people ..."
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#14Body decoration is nearly a human universal -- it's unsurprising that new technology will be adopted for this, though whether this particular fad will take root is doubtful.
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#15Some random Japanese trends are destined to go mainstream in the west, while others aren't. This seems to fall firmly into the latter category.
Yeah, westerners never put funny things in their mouths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grill_%28jewelry%29
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#16While this particular project seems like a novelty item, I recommend taking a closer look at Daito, one of the artist-hackers mentioned in the article. I enjoyed digging a bit deeper into the works on his site.
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#17These would be pretty cool with a few extra features. Say flashing in time with music or sound as you are speaking. Or wirelessly connected so that they sink and can act out 'symphonies' of light displays. Great for advertising!
The first demo video does show flashing and colors sensitive to music, and the second video shows a large groups' lights staying in sync, though the mechanisms of communication (wireless signals?) aren't clear.
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#18Some random Japanese trends are destined to go mainstream in the west, while others aren't. This seems to fall firmly into the latter category.
Yeah, westerners never put funny things in their mouths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grill_%28jewelry%29
Oh, there are idiotic trends in the west as well. But they have an entirely different flavour to them.
Grills are an ostentatious display of wealth. Ostentatious displays of wealth are severely frowned upon in any culture (or subculture) where wealth is actually common. White people, or Japanese people, or even middle-class black people, would never wear something as tacky as a diamond-studded tooth grill... they'd rather display their wealth via something like a $20,000 watch that only folks with $20,000 watches know is a $20,000 watch.
Now, LEDs aren't expensive, so they don't work as ostentatious displays of wealth. About the only thing they work as is an ostentatious display of your willingness to adopt trends in the full knowledge that they're completely stupid-looking. And that kind of thing may play well in Japan but it won't fly in the west where we're not quite so ironically detached.
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#19I sometimes wish that people's personalities were printed on their forehead, so I could stop wasting my time on the obnoxious and stupid ones. This comes pretty close to fulfilling that wish.
Tragically I'm pretty sure there are plenty of stupid and obnoxious people who will never wear these.
Many years of experience have taught me that it's often possible to identify the stupid and obnoxious people via their appearance anyway. Unfortunately many years of experience and my mother also taught me not to judge people by their appearances, so I'm not sure what to do now.
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