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A massage-inducing t-shirt March 2019
A t-shirt that I designed to trick my child into giving me a back massage using his favourite toy trains.
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“Hello World!!” Baby Towel March 2019
A baby towel to welcome the baby of engineers to this world.
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ARで見る 2018年1月 ビデオ Play Store
通販ページなどのサイズ表記（”120x48x80″とか）をARで表示するためのアプリ。どんなアプリからも2クリックで自分の部屋の中に3D表示できるので、大きい物を買う前に置き場所を確認できます。
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See in AR 2018 Jan Video Play Store
Probably the fastest way to visualize the sizes of things before you buy them online. “Share” the textual dimensions of things (e.g., “120x48x80″) to this app, and you get an instant 3D visualization right inside your room
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AR Sensor 2018年12月 ブログ Play Store
ARとスマホのセンサを組み合わせることで、普段見ることのできない空間データを可視化するツール。Wifiルーターから出てくる電波の強度や、磁石の周りの磁場を可視化したりできます。
AR Sensor 2018 Dec Blog(JA) Play Store
A visualization tool that lets you spatial data that is typically invisible. This lets you see things like Wifi signals coming out of wifi routers, and the magnetic field around strong magnets.
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子供が背中を登れるボルダリングTシャツ 2018年5月
Tシャツにボルダリングホールドを付けることで、子供が勝手に背中を登っておんぶの態勢になれるようにしてみた。
“Climb-able” T-shirt 2018 May
A boulder-embedded t-shirt that your kids can climb.
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自分で組み立てて遊べるビー玉迷路 2018年1月
子供に迷路ブームが到来したので、自分で迷路を作ってビー玉をコロコロさせて遊べるキットを作ってみました。ついでにそのためのモデルをカスタマイズして出力できるページも作りました。
“Free-layout” printable maze 2018 Jan Link
A free-layout wooden maze that you can print out from our website.
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影絵本 2017年11月
子供と天井で影遊びをすると、素直に布団に入って電気を消してくれるので影絵が作れる絵本を作ってみました。レーザーカッターで木をカットして、花火は後ろからフェルトをあてています。
Shadow picture book 2017 Nov
A picture story book that you project with your smartphone lights to your ceiling. This makes it a lot easier to convince your kids to tuck into bed and turn the lights off.
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An “evolution tree” mobile 2017 Oct
A mobile that teaches kids the evolutionary tree (whilst also looking cool).
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Shabetter 2017 Sept
A talking Twitter client that runs in your browser and uses TTS to talk back your timeline.
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One of the problems about sleeping in the same room as your toddlers is that you can't use booklights for the fear of waking them up. I invented a booklight that is "invisible" to people around you.
Media: Gizmodo, Hack a Day, Internet Watch
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A mug cup that leaves a “smiley” coffee stain 2015 Oct
If your mug cup is going to leave a coffee stain, it might as well look happy...
Created in 10 minutes using paper clay.
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Automatic popup card generation from 3D photos 2015 Sept Link
I created an algorithm to automatically generate popup cards (those things you get in holiday cards) from 3D images captured from Kinect. This gives you a cheap and convenient way of displaying 3D family photos.
Media: Hack a Day
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A T-shirt that makes sweaty armpits more socially acceptable 2015 Jun Link
This t-shirt attempts to make your sweaty patches more loveable by incorporating it into the design.
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A smartphone case that makes 2 smartphones into 1 2015 Apr
This is a 3D printed smartphone case that lets you combine an iPhone 5S and a Nexus 5 back to back. Download it here.
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ThermalTable 2014 Dec Link
Using FLIR ONE, an attachment that turns your iPhone into a thermal camera, I built a table that visualizes the temperature of objects by projecting colours representing the temperature.
While it has little practical use, there is educational value in being able to see how temperature is distributed when you mix water of different temperatures, or how certain parts of a machine becomes hot.
In the media: Gizmodo, Hackaday, Daily Mail
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RomoCart 2014 Oct Link
This is a system to turn your living room into the world of Mario Kart.
By combining projection mapping and Romos, the system not only lets you play a racing game in a course automatically generated to fit your room, but also lets you pick up items, fire missiles, throw bananas, projected into the environment.
In the media (articles): engadget, Gizmodo, Kotaku, ITmedia, Hack A Day, the Gadget Show, Freshgadgets.nl, INSIDE, Neoteo, Mirai News, and many more
In the media (videos): CNET
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Tempescope 2012 Nov Link
The Tempescope is a physical display that recreates the weather inside your living room.
Based on future weather forecasts, it creates various weather conditions like rain, clouds, and thunder, to give an ambient and passive notification of tomorrow's weather.
All schematics and source code are available in open source, and we will be launching a crowd funding campaign early 2015.
Tech shows: Gugen 2013, CEATEC 2014
In the media (articles): engadget, Gizmodo, Washington Post, Colossal, Daily Mail, Gigazine, Spiegel, Hack A Day, MAKE: Japan, Impress Internet Watch
In the media (TV): Good! Morning (TV Asahi), Meteo Media, emol tv
In the media (magazines): Make: vol.42