To Masahiko Tsukamoto: we take back that Japanese Moroder crack

Dear Masahiko Tsukamoto,

Ok, now we were going a little scary-stalkerish on you. We previously mocked —lovingly though, lovingly! — but we're just gonna say it: ok, we think you're pretty awesome, alright? There. It's true. We admit it, when we found out a little more about your contributions to technology, and how apparently you're an Associate Professor at the Department of Multimedia Engineering at Osaka University, and a former research engineer at Sharp, we were totally feeling it. And those glasses you wear are some crazy wearable 3D information system called the DataGlass 2/A, developed by "Team Tsukamoto?" Our hats go off to you, sir. You totally win.

Yours truly,
Engadget

[Thanks, Nihonjintaylor]

[shibmaster @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

Ahhhhhhh.....Even with all the degrees...this guy still has a mullet...

[Ben @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

I'm not sure if it's so much the mullet as the porno 'stache that draws my eye.

[Rob @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

That picture is cho Space Pirate chic. Someone should warn the billionaire space tourists not to carry too much cash on them.

[Hunkaluv75 @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

Come on....Lets do another caption contest on this guy..Masahiko Tsukamoto always wanted to be in Olivia Newton Johns Video "Let's Get Physical"...5,000,000 yen and 24 years later...He's in...another 10 years and the cyborg leg-warmers will drop...

[vakerorokero @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

is he wearing blue contacts? Is he into that Ganguro trend?

[Chase Bailey @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

That guy is really creaping me out.

[Mike @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

looks like a device from Dragon Ball z

[TIMMAH!! @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

Arrrr... where's my parrot!

[Jacob Metcalf @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

I wouldn't be surprise if he emailed back.

"Don't be jealous cause I've been chatting with babes on line all day."

[TheCheeks @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

Arrrg, I be the 21st century pirate.

[Joe Hatfield @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

re comment 5: Well, he's got the bleached hair and blue contacts, but I think he still needs to work on his tan and add some glitter makeup and white lipstick to be seriously considered Ganguro.

[linco @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

lol he does look like he's wearing one of those power meters from DBZ. He is reading all of our power levels as we speak!

[Rob @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

I tried on the glasses at a multimedia conference in Taipei - All the while the keynote speaker was talking, he was watching Japanese TV. Wow, what a crazy nut.

[Scott @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

"lol he does look like he's wearing one of those power meters from DBZ. He is reading all of our power levels as we speak!"

HAHA...He seems to be masking his power level

[Chelsea Fc @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

Lol that guy looks funny as hell!

[Irfaan @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

I'd love to gargoyle-up like Mr. Tsukamoto - I just don't have the balls to look the part, though. I say, more power to him. And his mullet.

If only the MicroOptical EG-7 (http://www.inition.co.uk/inition/images/product_hmd_microoptical_eg7.jpg) were actually available - a heckovalot more discrete then any of the other wearable displays out there (example: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Thad.Starner/microoptical.gif). I've been waiting for that @#*%er to become available outside of OEMs for 6+ years now, though. I've learned to stop holding my breath. :/

[AIM Express @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

I'm pretty scared.

[Dave Zatz @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

"Tubbs and Crockett go high tech with Tsukamoto in Osaka Vice" Oh wait, the caption contest is over.

[Josh @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

OK Pirates of the Caribbean 8 : yr 2035

Take 32 Cameras Rolling go

[Matt @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

Anyone else think he looks like Christopher Walken as The Continental?

[Wookie @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

http://www1.shimadzu.com/products/hmd/what1.html

[TheWakeUpCall @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

That's a what? Sounds like something from terminator! You know where he scans people! haha! I thought it was an eyepatch. It's a terminator eyepatch!! HORRAH!

[waffa @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

The dataglass is hella sick its also hella expencive but browsing with one of those would eb sick it hould eb wirless though