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One Pixel Camera: “RGBy, by Shinya Matsuyama and Makoto Hirahara, is a cube-shaped lamp that senses color and glows with the sensed color. For example, when you find a nice color at a flower garden or a designer clothes store, you can use RGBy to capture the color to appreciate it. [video]

[RGBy. don't miss the video]

It’s like a ‘one-pixel camera’ as Kuwakubo puts it. RGBy was recently featured in the recent Digital Stadium show, for which Kuwakubo served as a curator. In his comments, he suggested a possibility of a one-pixel video camera. Sounds very cool.

There is a switch and red, blue, and green LEDs on the bottom surface of the cube. When the switch is pressed, the LEDs emit light sequencially and the device detects the strength of reflected light to determine the color. If put on a multi-colored surface, it avarages the colors.

RGBy will be presented at DAF Tokyo soon.

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I have spent far too long on this….

Four jobs I’ve had in my life

• Electroplater
• Factory Worker
• Building Site Labourer
• Multimedia Developer

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The classic combination of punk stripes, maid’s outift and suspended boot things! (I have added more photos to my Flickr account - more to come too)

On the agenda today was a visit to the Imperial Palace - the residence of Japan’s Emperor Akihito, on this his official birthday, and, as far as I understand, one of only two days per year that he greets his nation in person.

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I hit the sack early on New Year’s eve so I didn’t get the opportunity to see what seeing in the New Year looks like in Tokyo. According to some Australians we met on the tube, Rippongi is the place to be; jet lag and a long journey to get there put pay to any possibility of that.

I didn’t sleep particularly well - the bed was just too hard for me; this may be a good thing though - getting me used to it ready to sleep on a futon in the Ryokan we are staying in in Akan in a few days.

At about 10am, New Years Day, I attempted to meet up with Owen and Sarah. I say attempted because, due to the size of most of the main stations, there are so many exits to choose from and it’s therefore really easy to miss each other. Anyhow, eventually we did find each other - partly to do with me doing laps of the station and partly due to them having finally actually turned up! First stop then, Akihabara - Electric Town.

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We landed at Narita airport Tokyo on the 31st January 2005, in the morning, after a long but not bearable flight. I had been well fed, been offered drinks almost continuously and had managed to do a little work as well as taking in 3 movies; short reviews : Dukes of Hazzard - Enjoyable Rubbish; Boy and Elephant story in Japanese (can’t remember title) - very good, quite sad; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - great but suffered badly from the screen size (and being edited for small screen).

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