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  1. chaminga_d

    Japan's latest fashion trend--LCDs

    First staged two years ago to promote Japanese-made clothing--including Miki's gadget-adorned accessories--Japan Fashion Week is funded in part by the designers who show at the event and by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
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    Japan's latest fashion trend--LCDs

    Educated in the U.S., Miki has worked as a computer graphics creator and kimono designer. Both experiences continue to inspire her clothing and accessory designs.
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    Japan's latest fashion trend--LCDs

    The image on the LCD screen in the handbag is intended to serve as a counterpoint to the fabric design.
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    Japan's latest fashion trend--LCDs

    The dress and handbag in this Miki ensemble reflect the designer's affinity for combining the traditional with the contemporary.
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    Japan's latest fashion trend--LCDs

    When traveling overseas, Miki said, she took to heart suggestions that the gadgets she carried were very much part of her Japanese identity. The experience inspired her to incorporate high-tech gadgets into her line of clothing and accessories.
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    Japan's latest fashion trend--LCDs

    Emphasizing the "Japanese-ness" of her clothing line, Tokyo designer Miki ignored recommendations that she use Western models.
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    Japan's latest fashion trend--LCDs

    LCD screens figured prominently in many of the clutches and oversize totes the designer developed for the collection of clothing and accessories she showed during Japan Fashion Week.
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    tallest member in Elakiri!!

    5'8"
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    Japan's latest fashion trend--LCDs

    Japanese clothing designer Emiko Miki blended tradition and high tech for her autumn/winter collection presented at Japan Fashion Week, a ready-to-wear show held this week in Tokyo.
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    10 most important games of all time

    The Sensible World of Soccer, released in 1994, let players manage the moves and careers of their team through 20 seasons, competing against thousands of other clubs across the globe. The original version of the game, nicknamed Sensi, retains a cult following, according to Wikipedia. Credit...
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    10 most important games of all time

    The first three Warcraft games, which have since manifested into the überpopular World of Warcraft franchise, represent the introduction of real-time strategy overlaid on a narrative, according to The New York Times. Set in the fictional Warcraft Universe, the game features two opposing...
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    10 most important games of all time

    Doom, a first-person shooter released in 1993 by Id Software, is lauded for its intense 3D graphics and multiplayer networking. The objective: make your way to the next area while avoiding (or significantly harming) all the opponents in your way. Within two years, the game--distributed as...
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    10 most important games of all time

    Civilization, created by Sid Meier for Microprose in 1991, is a turn-based strategy game. Players are tasked with building "an empire that would stand the test of time," making decisions about war, diplomacy, protection and development. Time begins in 4000 BC. The game requires a fair amount of...
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    10 most important games of all time

    Mamada?....
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    10 most important games of all time

    Joystiq.com Managing Editor Christopher Grant says Super Mario Bros. 3 introduced nonlinear features such as the ability to move both backward and forward. In the Nintendo game, released in 1988 in Japan and in 1990 in North America, Mario and Luigi's objective is to rescue the kings of the...
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    10 most important games of all time

    SimCity spawned the "god game" genre. Rather than merely being a game participant, players of the simulation game, created by designer Will Wright and first released in 1989, get to design and build their own virtual world. Players also get to defining their own goals; "winning" could mean a...
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    10 most important games of all time

    Tetris tests gamers' geometric thinking and motor skills. Designed in 1984 by Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov--whose favorite sport was tennis, according to Wikipedia--the falling-blocks puzzle game was an early Nintendo Game Boy favorite. The objective of Tetris is to fit the four-segment...
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    10 most important games of all time

    Zork, once MIT hacker jargon for an unfinished program, according to Wikipedia, spawned the term "adventure game" in 1980. Set in an "underground empire" of dungeons and imaginative creatures such as grues and zorkmids, the Infocom trilogy of games is stocked with hidden cave treasures for...
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    10 most important games of all time

    The Star Trek-inspired game Star Raiders, released in 1979 for the Atari platform, gave gamers a cockpit view of a spaceship traveling through a 3D field of stars in pursuit of enemies, called Zylons. Credit: GameSpot
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    10 most important games of all time

    Video games, like movies, are worth preserving and studying as cultural artifacts. So says Henry Lowood, curator of the History of Science and Technology Collections at Stanford University, who together with game designers Warren Spector and Steve Meretzky; academic researcher Matteo Bittanti...

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