Oh boy, got to get one ...Zimplistic Rotimatic
This sounds great, and congrats to the winners of Start-Up@Singapore 2009 for the Zimplistic Rotimatic.
But I want to know ... can it also do the perfect prata?
Chapati or roti is a staple in Indian diet. Yet it can take over 30 minutes to prepare a simple meal of roti. Repeating this at least three times every day is a cumbersome process.
Zimplistic’s invention is an elegant automatic roti-maker set to be the rice cooker of India. With a push of a button, the roti-maker can mix, make and bake rotis from just the addition of water and flour to the machine.
Zimplistic’s founder Pranoti Nagarkar Israni is no stranger to product design. Only in her 20s, she left her job at a leading electronic manufacturer to start-up on her own. She graduated from NUS and majored in mechanical engineering. Zimplistic aims to go one step further by developing more innovations such as the roti-maker, to make every meal more convenient to make and consume.
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The largest LEGO battleship in the world
The LEGO Battleship Yamata has now been launched.
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マキシマムザホルモン & THE Best Drummer In The World
マキシマムザホルモン (Makishimamu Za Horumon/Maximum the Hormone). I've had their latest album ぶっ生き返す for a month or so.
And listen to it .. oh, at least once a day. It's some kind of amazing.
Just saw they won the "MTV Best Rock Video Award" in Japan a few days back. Which is pretty mind blowing - Japan has a real vibrant alternative music scene, but the mainstream always seems dominated by the bubblegum schoolgirls and elderly crooners.
Yeah, did I mention Makishimamu Za Horumon is pretty "alternative"? Like driving down a mountain road at 100kph. Every turn you don't know what to expect. Don't try to guess - you will be wrong. Pop+punk+metal+ska+WTF!
Kind of like Red Hot Chili Peppers way over the edge. And in Japanese.
And I am sorry Lars and Nikko, Kawakita Nao 川北 奈緒 / ナヲ is now THE best drummer in the world. And her vocals are essential for the unique fusion that is MTH.
If you are in Osaka 大阪府 tomorrow (3-Jun), you can catch them live. You lucky bastards.
Let'er rip. This is classic. The first track from ぶっ生き返す..
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Java Puzzlers
| Apparently, Joshua Block and Neal Gafter started the "Java Puzzlers" idea at Oracle Open World 2001. I wish I was there. Subsequently, they've turned it into a book  , and a website. If you program in Java, this is truly a must-read book. More on my tech blog. |
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