Get Your Own Action Figure (In Japan) 74
derGoldstein writes "Makezine points to a very interesting shop in Akihabara that will make miniature clones of your face. This page contains photos of the process and the results. After the miniature head is printed in 3D it's painted and attached to a doll of your choice. Some of the models they produce beg for an exorcism..."
For Japan (Score:1)
This seems surprisingly normal.
Re:For Japan (Score:4, Funny)
This seems surprisingly normal.
If you put it on a bobblehead doll, it'd be normal for the US also.
Wow. Those are realistic. (Score:2)
I didn't see how much they cost but it's an order of magnitude better than anything else I've seen before-- does it mean dolls next christmas will be at similar levels of realism?
I noted the cute anime girl in the redshirt with extremely pointed and accurate nipples and did a bit of a double take.
Wonder if this has implication to the sex dolls? Custom sex dolls with more realistic faces?
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I didn't see how much they cost
Article says the cost is 138000 yen (~1750 USD). So not cheap!
Re:Barclay fantasies (Score:1)
Custom sex dolls with more realistic faces?
Oh god,you just reminded me of that ST:TNG episode where Lt. Barclay used the holodeck to fantasize about his shipmates. When will we have the first "He took my Facebook pics and created a sex doll out of me" lawsuits?
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This means all those male conservative politicians can make sex dolls out of their favorite little eight-year-old boys.
Bead jiggling pederasts (Score:3)
Does the Vatican have a airfreight depot? It's going to need one!
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Probably awhile, since you could print out a girl's photo and paste it to a sex doll now, only difference would be the level of realism... although Kim Kardashian is already suing someone because they naturally look like her (brunette with dark eyes) [dailymail.co.uk] so I might be wrong.
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So the future is clear: every time somebody posts an "I'd do her" comment (one of the most common comment types on youtube), an ad would pop up asking "if you were serious about that comment, we can make it happen!".
Re:Wow. Those are realistic. (Score:5, Informative)
Here's an example of one manufacturer: Unison-Direct [unison-direct.jp]
Being Japan, there are also two trends that we in the west find rather creepy. First is the growing number of men who obsess over their dolls, dressing them up and taking them out on dates, photographing them in ways that makes them seem even more life like and so on. There are several Japanese magazines devoted to the subject. These guys treat their inanimate objects with the sort intense fantasy life that over here would be considered a sign of mental illness....
Even more creepy, even among the Japanese and hence, less talked about is the number of manufacturers who offer "miniature" versions (2/3 scale models of rather women) or straight out child models. To be fair, the child models are usually dolls only and do not have the "love holes" as the trade calls them. I have no doubt though that there are men out there who modify them, probably even enough of them that they have their own forums and swap tips and tricks on how to best perform the "surgery"
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I think there's one Chinese group that already practises this, the Mosuo. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1939297 [nih.gov]
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Umm, don't they already make those [realdoll.com]?
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Real Dolls have always looked pretty ghastly to me. Even the japanese dolls the other person linked do not look as real as these doll faces.
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Even the japanese dolls the other person linked do not look as real as these doll faces.
That's because they don't use a 3-D map of a real human being for those dolls, yet.
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I think it depends on the Doll and the choices the person made during its construction, I would agree that many of the gallery shots on the site itself make the dolls look ghastly. That being said I've seen some pictures of Real Dolls where I initially didn't know it was a doll, its actually how I found that site the first time.
For some "doll done right" shots, take a look at Stacy Leigh's [stacythephotographer.com] work. She has this picture of an Asian woman in a black and white striped top lying down with a cat, if I didn't alre
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Custom sex dolls with more realistic faces?
Uh, it's not the faces that consumers want to make more realistic. Or so I've heard.
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Plus, you can also get them a clone sidekick, but with huge eyes and a plaid skirt.
Re:And to think there are people starving to death (Score:4, Insightful)
I think that that's what taxes are for. To take good care of your fellow countrymen, and, if there is a surplus, help the development of poorer countries or provide relief in case of natural disasters. Unfortunately, in most western nations the taxes are only levied from the poor and middle class, and used to buy military hardware and bail out the corps of the local plutocrats every time they screw up.
In Danny's case, his company has set up a donations page for the Japanese Red Cross, and with several partner companies, they have started the distribution of special action figures from which a third of the retail price goes for the Red Cross. I think it is a very good trade off.
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Obligatory XKCD
http://xkcd.com/871/
Re:And to think there are people starving to death (Score:4, Interesting)
Why don't you? Imagine this. Imagine you are at a train crossing, and the train is coming. It is heading right for some people, tied to the tracks. There's a switch, and if you flip that switch, you will switch the tracks, sending the train to a different track. But on this track, instead of people, everything you own is on the track. Question is, do you flip it? Well, we all know what everyone says: 'Of course I flip it! People are more important than things!' But the reality is, we face that situation every day, and most of us do not flip the switch. We could sell off all our possessions, collect all our money, and maybe make a difference in some impoverished starving village somewhere, but we don't. I'm sure you've bought some unnecessary trinket or gizmo or gourmet latte in recent memory, or could find someone to buy that nice 3 digit UID off you and you could keep someone from starving of malnutrition or give some disaster relief or whatever else. But we don't. Fact is, very, very few of us do. We're all just as guilty, by our actions, of saying Fuck the Poor. [youtube.com] But that's life isn't it? Just something to think about when you condemn others of wasting money that could potentially go to a good cause.
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I think it's part of our innate nature to look out for ourselves first and foremost. I don't feel guilty about not donating to charity because, well, I honestly don't have any extra money that I could spare at this point in my life (as much as I'd want to). I volunteer instead.
I do think there's a certain point where a man has pretty much everything he needs and maybe he can use some of that excess to help his fellow neighbor, though.
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That is a calculation we all make all the time, conscious or not.
Would I rather have a newer car or give money to Goodwill? Would I rather drive to work or take the bus and have more money to save starving children? Would I rather go to the movies or contribute to Ronald McDonald House? Would I rather buy porn or fight breast cancer? New laptop or AIDS? etc, etc, etc.
Buying a custom creepy doll head is no different.
I spend a ton of money on things that make my life nicer, but I don't actually need. We almos
ouch! (Score:2)
shop (Score:2)
Some of those look really good, like uncanny valley good. But when you get to the last few and especially the second to last one a few look shopped, not printed.
Now I would love to see this kind of tech become so cheap that it was available at any mall. Most of the 3d printers I see don't offer that kind of fine grain resolution. I would love to be able to build something that detailed on my computer and then go have it printed out without having to spend 10s of thousands of yen.
Voodoo 2.0 (Score:5, Funny)
For voodoo practitioners this should be an massive upgrade.
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Yeah, Voodoo dolls for pissed ex-lovers
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They're hand painted (Score:2)
They're hand painted, though. They need a color printer that can work on a 3D surface, something like an inkjet head on a 5-axis robot arm. I'm surprised that Roland doesn't make something like that yet.
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Wrong. They come out printed... at least according to the end of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfVKTM_LiD8 [youtube.com]
It all looks so real it's tough to believe it's not photoshopped.
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Er... I mean they come out of the printer in color already.
Printer coloured (Score:2)
Not very realistic... (Score:5, Funny)
Stupid monkey (Score:2)
Can't wait until these dolls hit Robot Chicken. This is going to open up a wide world of options to them.
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Already been done. (Score:3)
This is seriously old news, and it's been done for cheaper.
At my workplace they have stupid human-interest type news blurbs produced by the same company that supplies all the (not)Inpirational-goTeam corporate decor, and one blurb was about a company that did something like this from photos. And they were cheaper, too! Like less than $500 for the initial creation and first figure, and $50 for each additional one. I just can't remember the name of the company or find it easily on Google right now. I first saw that blurb like over a year ago, and it's still hanging in some corner of the building right now.
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True it can probably be done for cheaper, but it takes place in Tokyo (which makes it more expensive) and then in Akihabara (which makes it even more expensive).
I think all they're selling is the head. (Score:2)
Summary says you get to pick a body as part of your purchase, but I don't think that is true.
The caption on one of the photos in TFA is something like "my production assistant attached my head to a storm trooper body."
At least (Score:2)
they had one customer already:
http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/mini-steve-jobs-action-figure-appears-online-28-06-2011/ [geeky-gadgets.com]