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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I just hope no one will get electrocuted from the floor...
Nothin' a good old Nikita won't knock out.
Am I the only one that got this joke? hahaha good stuff good stuff!
MGS joke, hehe.
But that isn't anywhere in Alaska, or even an oil refinery in New York.
A small price to pay for the awesomeness
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!"
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?
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.
-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?
LEDs have solid pastic coating. They don't shatter like most other electric lights.
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.
made in china....
“Just make them glow pink and the atmosphere will be rather different…”
hahah..
White is better for upskirt lighting.
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.
I hate tatami. They're really uncomfortable to sit on because you get the pattern ingrained into your skin for a while afterwards, and they need to be cleaned - as in taken off the floor one by one and beaten outside- every other month or so or they start to stink. They dont smell that great when they're clean either. It's not a big mystery or 'waahh evil westernization' when more and more Japanese people are preferring wooden floors or carpet.
I'd love to have a washitsu with the requisite tatami flooring... but yeah, I've heard a lot of traditional stuff is like that. Japanese are puzzled by Westerners who want to come to Japan and live in a traditional Japanese house because they're cold, drafty, and generally inconvenient. I've heard you have to be kind of tough to live in one day to day.
I dunno, I actually like tatamis. Sleep on them is good.
Fighting game stages generally look awesome, therefore I am absolutely in favor of making as many places resemble them as possible.
how matrix... lame
The room still looks rather dingy even with the whole floor lit up.
It might be useful for cat feeding rituals like in the pic, but not much else.
Shut up and take my money !
Glowing Tatami? Oh that's where they are hiding their nuclear waste then.
Cooler than ordinary tatami, but still not all that cool.
I much prefer the traditional look over this nonsense.
Great idea smash the floor glass and get electricuted
Just make a sci-fi movie with it and let the regular version back ! traditionnal tatami will always be better !
With the way things are being handled in Japan, everything there will eventually have embedded lighting... if you know what I mean.
the way i see it none of you smart asses even know what leds are.
Light Emitting Diodes. Your move, faggot.
*Facepalm* ..... Oh, Japan...
So are they made of cyber-straw, or what ?
Actually, I suspect they are. Just looking at that photo, I'm guessing there's a strip of LEDs along one edge, and maybe some plastic fiber optic cable woven into the straw.
It doesn't seem to spread that well though... If they don't already do it, I think they could take a cue from LCD displays and add a reflector underneath them, with some thin, paperlike material in between to diffuse the light a bit. I kind of like this effect though - it makes them look a bit deeper than just the surface you usually see.
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.
WTF. LED is as cheap as dirt and the electricity it consumes is VERY VERY low. Uninformative people these days...
Shut up hippie these things are worth it
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.
“Total Ghost in the Shell!”
First thing that came to mind.
Awesome ... looks like something out of TRON. Do want!
Those floor looks like a giant electric stove designed to cook everyone in that room alive