Cyber-Tatami: “The Foreigners Will Love This!”
- Categories: News
- Date: Oct 24, 2013 11:46 JST
- Tags: Architecture, Buildings, Internet, Technology, Wafuku
Tatami flooring boasting embedded LED lighting has been wowing many Japanese online with its overpowering cyber-wafuu styling.
Though in Japanese homes tatami are increasingly relegated to a token Japanese style room and seem to be fast disappearing from new apartments, they remain indispensable in more traditional spaces.
This and the rather strong styling has led to no small scepticism amongst actual Japanese as to whether they will catch on, although the general reception seems positive enough:
“The sort of Japan the foreigners will love…”
“Actually they are surprisingly pretty!”
“Total Ghost in the Shell!”
“What is this, the Matrix?”
“Far too cool, can’t imagine sticking a kotatsu on these…”
“Not very relaxing though.”
“Looks like the stage from a fighting game.”
“Wouldn’t mind sleeping on these with a futon.”
“Would love to get these in my place.”
“Could be good in a Japanese style ‘health’ establishment!”
“Taratino will love these.”
“Looks like a scene from an American B-movie.”
“These people don’t understand wabisabi at all, do they?”
“This is total SF!”
“Just make them glow pink and the atmosphere will be rather different…”
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A really good setting for my traditional homes !
I think this can be a good idea for futuristic Japanese Restaurant Setting
Except for the fact that they'll close in 2 months due to the electric bill going up to 5 figures on the mats alone. It's nice to look at but the energy problem is still an issue up until today.
LED lighting is lower wattage than florescent lighting, and way cheaper than incandescent. Combine that with color changing LEDs and you have a cheaper and extremely novel light source. Just turn them off when your not in the room, light every other light source and you shouldn't see any major spikes in consumption.
*like every other light source... /damn typos
The luminous efficacy is only about 40%-50% larger. LEDs are not magical free light.
I weep for this generation, not knowing that their laptops, cellphones, tv's, are using LED's.
“Could be good in a Japanese style ‘health’ establishment!”
“Just make them glow pink and the atmosphere will be rather different…”
Totally what I'm thinking.
Now just add some jazzy music and you're set. THE FOREIGNERS WILL LOVE THIS!!
Why would we love this crap... you have any idea how much electricity cost? I'm paying $200 per months just for electricity, without heating or anything. It gets worst during winter, so NO I wouldn't "love" this.
how matrix... lame
“The sort of Japan the foreigners will love…”
Yaaaaaaaaaaa... not so much
I just hope no one will get electrocuted from the floor...
That's the idea
Maybe if it was made in China, it's not right...?
More like Explosions
That happens with normal tatami made in China.
that happens with everything made in China.
Nothin' a good old Nikita won't knock out.
Am I the only one that got this joke? hahaha good stuff good stuff!
But that isn't anywhere in Alaska, or even an oil refinery in New York.
MGS joke, hehe.
LEDs have solid pastic coating. They don't shatter like most other electric lights.
made in china....
i can totally imagine it.
Human electrocuted due to Green Tea spilled onto LED tatami
or kids still peeing while asleep but it would be a lot funnier if teenagers sleeping on it while having some wet dreams.
*bzz, pop*
"mmh... Biribiri... so bold..."
*fzzzzzzzzz*
"zzz... *snort* HUH? WAAAAH! MAH WEENIE'S ROASTIN!"
A small price to pay for the awesomeness
Nah, that's totally safe.
A living body has far too high an electrical resistance, as that electricity would flow up all the way to the body's heart or brain, then back down again to the earth.
Why do you think we don't see that many birds fried from sitting on high-tension lines?
-because they're not getting GROUNDED when sitting on a single wire, you idiot.
Of course they are; the wire will eventually lead to the ground, after all. Even the air can conduct electricity (Lightning, anyone?), it's just that air offers way too much resistance, as that electricity would ever choose to travel through it instead of wires which offer only little resistance. Why go through the air, if following the cable is so much easier?
Similarly, why travel through a human, if the tatami is full of wires that are so much easier to travel through? And why travel through a bird?
If you were to cut the cable exactly between the bird's legs, so that electricity would have to either travel through the bird or the air, you can almost definitely expect fried bird meat; proof enough that birds are grounded even when sitting on a single wire.
Now who's the idiot?
To put it in nicer terms that anon, the birds are ok because they're not creating a circuit. Even if the line is highly charged, they touch the wire and reach the same electrical potential as it. It's like how if you're in the middle of an empty room you can hold a Van de Graaf generator as it charges up and your hair will stand up, but you'll be ok... but then if you touch a grounded line like a sink, it will at least seriously hurt as you discharge (and worse if the generator keeps charging you.)
Put more simply, it's for the same reason you can use an uninsulated metal screwdriver and no gloves to connect the +(?) terminal of a car battery... but if you do so while the - terminal's connected and you touch the car... it's gonna zap you.
But... yeah, this setup is probably somewhere around 3V, 20mA. If the wires were exposed, you'd probably have to be pretty wet to complete the circuit, and even then, it'd just go through the bottom of your foot and probably not even be felt.
cyber wafuu?
wheres my cyber waifu? =(
As a non-Japanese, I officially say "meh". Tourists go there for the food, sights, and other things. Not glow in the dark floor mats that may or may not be radioactive.
I would love to go for the food, the culture and the attractions but the mats are still cool and I'd love to see them.
For the easy women. I mean 'pure virgin girls'.
LOL japs and their delusions.
i'd love to visit a traditional home with those sliding paper doors, tatami mats, and the garden with that annoying seesaw fountain thing.
why not?
"annoying seesaw fountain thing" == "shishiodoshi" ~= "deer-scare".
I only come for the pussy & doujin shops. Deal with it.
ecstasy taking German light twirlers maybe, with electro pop playing.
The guy on the left: Japanese Heisenberg.
Those floor looks like a giant electric stove designed to cook everyone in that room alive
Awesome ... looks like something out of TRON. Do want!
Looks pretty neat but I don't think it'll be any large attraction to foreigners. Futuristic looking though.
Actually that looks kinda awesome.
If they're durable and not a fire hazard I'd totally buy some.
Sorry, I like the traditional tatami mats better. Doesn't cost so much as that and it doesn't contribute to pollution by means of production.
Shut up hippie these things are worth it
WTF. LED is as cheap as dirt and the electricity it consumes is VERY VERY low. Uninformative people these days...
“Total Ghost in the Shell!”
First thing that came to mind.
I will say the mats would be ideal for a movie ambient effect. Not just Ghost in the Shell but even for other sci-fi movies.
Will jizz be more visible, like under a blacklight.
No. LEDs emit in a very narrow spectrum, depending on the semiconductor material. If you can see the light, it's not emitting in UV.
lol looks cool