Those wacky Japanese are at it again

[unixronin]

[This from an article on using RFID-tagged CD cases so that your stereo knows what music should be on a particular CD and looks it up on a storage server, instead of just playing the CD:]

"Meanwhile, Osaka University graduate student Yoichi Ikeda has developed a plastic bottle that "sucks in" data by placing the nozzle against a CD case; the bottle hardens as more data is consumed, and the user then inserts the nozzle into a speaker slot and squeezes the bottle to cause the music to play."

I don't know about anyone else, but this gives me mental images of hordes of Japanese students "squirting" bottles of music into their earbud headphones as they ride the bus across town.  Needless to say, I find this image more than slightly ludicrous.

"We've secretly replaced Yatsuo Koguchi's Apoptygma Berzerk with a real squirt-bottle of spring water!  Let's see if she notices....."

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