A urinal that has a video game console above it in the SEGA World complex in Akihabara Electric Town, Tokyo, Japan. For men a stroll to the gents has become a leap into the twenty first century, thanks to the SEGA video games corporation. The company has developed a new entertainment system which is incorporated into a public lavatory. Now rows of peeing men can spend a penny and get a great video game experience while they are at it. The “Toylet” male urinal video game provides a choice of sumo wrestling, erasing graffiti and dousing an exploding volcano. The “Toylet” works by a pressure sensor in the base of the urinal measuring the strength and location of the urine stream as it hits the basin. An LCD screen displays the game graphics and rewards the strength, length and accuracy of the pee through a typical video game points system. There are currently no plans for a multi-player version of the “Toylet”.
“Next Generation” by artist Nick Gentry, in London, England. A British painter is rebooting our attitude to obsolete technology by creating cutting edge art from unwanted 3’5 inch floppy disks. Nick Gentry (30) from Camden in London is fascinated by how humans relate to technology. Like half-human, half-digital hybrids, the portraits – painted onto a canvass with 300 floppy discs – depict people merging with the technology they formerly depended on. Close inspection reveals handwritten labels identifying the content of the disk, many of which have been crossed out as the disc has been erased and reused multiple times.
Picture of the scan showing Owen giving a peace sign from the womb in Bristol, England. When Louise Butt fell pregnant after suffering several miscarriages she was worried about losing her unborn baby. But then at her 21 week scan, something remarkable happened. Her unborn baby held up his hand and made a peace sign at the scanner – as if to tell his mother that everything was going to be alright, Thumbs up probably would have been more clear, but who’s complaining. It put the Mom’s mind at rest and her son Owen was born safely last month.
Louise Butt, 30, a recruitment consultant, who lives in Bristol with her partner Daniel Neate and their son Samuel, three, said: ‘It really was remarkable. I was lying on the scanning table and we were worried because I’d already suffered three miscarriages. ‘Then the baby just held up his hand and made the victory sign. The sonographer couldn’t believe it. She zoomed in on his hand and showed me what he was doing.
Huang Yuanfan, 84-year-old farmer, shows his 10cm long “horn” growing on his head on December 26, 2010 in Zangjia village of Wuyuan county in central China’s Jiangxi province. The disease started three years ago, but Huang has not bothered to visit a doctor, thinking he has lived long enough. There have been new “horns” sprouting out on his head recently.
