Oakay everybody. Hold on to your brain. A young Japanese genius has just done something extraordinary for fun:
Riktov writes "I came across this at a Tokyo toy store last week, and it's one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. Jigazo Puzzle is a jigsaw puzzle, but you can make anything with it. It has just 300 pieces which are all just varying shades of a single color, though a few have gradations across the piece; i.e., each piece is a generic pixel.
Out of the box, you can make Mona Lisa, JFK, etc, arranging it accordingto symbols printed on the reverse side. But here's the amazing thing:
take a photo (for example, of yourself) with a cell-phone, e-mail it to the company, and they will send you back a pattern that will recreate that photo.!!!
http://news.ameba.jp/trend-news/2009/10/47222.html
