Cody Taylor

This is a true story, and in the words of Homer Simpson: Fugu me!

Most movie posters are boring as hell. Well, actually, most American movie posters are boring as hell. Go to Eastern Europe, or Japan, and you find posters that have absolutely nothing to do with the film, and everything to do with melting a hole in your brain.

Straight out of Japan comes this superhero adventure. Terrible acting, terrible special effects, and terrible fighting. But you just can’t stop watching it.

theodp writes “Imagine a technology that lets you pay for products just by waving your cellphone over a reader. You wouldn’t have to if you lived in Japan, where people have been using it for the last five years to pay for everything from train tickets to groceries to candy in vending machines. While nearly everyone who’s tried it has liked this form of payment, consumers in the United States won’t be able to wave-and-pay anytime soon: The companies that must work together to give the technology to the masses can’t agree on how to split the resulting revenue.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

IT managers should start familiarizing themselves with a new security tool — the paint brush — as Japanese researchers have come up with a paint that they say will block high-speed wireless signals, giving businesses a cheap option to protect their wireless networks.