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Platinum Gundam

Holy crap! Someone finally did it. Takara Tomy revealed its Gundam-gone-platinum toy yesterday. Made of pure pt1000, this robot replica stands 5 inches tall and took 2 years to design and make.  Blinged out Gundam will be settling in its home in a jewelry shop in Ginza soon, but has a world tour to go on beforehand--starting with Basel, Switzerland. Of course, what I really want to know is how much this bad boy costs. Will geeks start presenting their lovers with this instead of a diamond engagement ring? Perhaps. Its creators estimate its value at about $250,000, but if you think about how rare and gorgeous this thing is, I'd say its priceless like a Mastercard commercial.

(via Pink Tentacle)

LoveHoMap.Com

Check out this wonderful new resource for finding love hotels in Japan. It's called LoveHoMap.com. Easy to remember, right? It lists these sexy rest spots by neighborhood (you're looking at Shibuya above) and has links to each hotel's web site on the key below. It's in Japanese only, so you'll have to know the characters for the neighborhoods at the very least, but what the hell. You could just go random clicking, and you're sure to find a place to stay with free condoms, porn, and accessories.

LoveHoMap.com (via Zaeega)

Deep Fryer Fish Tank

You've probably seen this already on BoingBoing or Digg, but there's this restaurant in Japan that uses a deep fryer with little goldfish swimming underneath in the same tank. It's pretty simple: the water and oil separate naturally, so the fish totally don't mind. Plus, the presence of a H20 layer underneath the oil makes for a splash-free deep frying experience, since any excess water molecules trickle down to the bottom instead of being flat out rejected and causing a huge splash.

My only qualm with this is goldfish poop. Doesn't that inevitably float upwards? That, and goldfish death. The dead ones float belly up to the surface, don't they? So some unlucky customer could be having goldfish tempura for dinner.

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Colorful Raindrop Waterproof iPod Speakers

These pretty, stylish raindrop speakers are mist-proof so you can hang them from your bathroom ceiling. But the coolest thing about it is that you can put an iPod inside. From Tokyo Hands, available in the 3 colors shown above.

Rip Slyme's Galaxy In The Groove

Bored at work? Check out this awesome, colorful, happy music video for hip hop quartet Rip Slyme's awesome music video. The video's made by Koichiro Tsujikawa, the same dude who did this Cornelius video.