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Japanese bosozuka car culture

Bosozuka are street hooligans in Japan. They usually stick to motor bikes, but they also dosome crazy shizzle to cars. They do the most ridiculous things to these cars...its quite amusing and weird. Some of those cars are just plain impossible to drive.Take a look at this for instance. How in the world do you drive this?

They look more like gangsta models to me.;-}. See this bike bosozuka courtesy of flickr.

 

Here's a gem of a video where a bosozuka chap explains his car which looks to me a cross between a car and a motorboat. Fancy stuff. Like to warn you that the video is in Japanese. But go ahead and check out the fancy and crazy looking for sure car.

What do you car fans feel ? Think you could drive one of these in your city?

Swing Shot tennis robot

This is January and that means the first tennis Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open is on.It is normal to see players practicing before and after their matches. Most of them have their own partners to practice with. There are ofcourse a number of automatic tennis ball serving machines that many tennis clubs have and indeed many amateur players make use of.

Japan has come with a new and futuristic tennis robot called a Swing Shot. See picture below.

This is the world's first tennis robot hitting balls with a racket. The speed of a ball can be adjusted between 20 km/h and 70 km/h. The balls can be released in different pitches, such as spin, lob, smash. The robot is remote-controlled.  Swing Shot has been introduced to tennis schools and others.
So if you are out of a partner, then look no further than the cool looking Swing Shot.

See videos below of typical tennis ball machines and it is quite easy to understand how path-breaking the Swing Shot is.