As promised, the wedding ceremony between a man named Sal9000 and Nene Anegasaki, a character from the Nintendo DS game Love Plus, was filmed and broadcast across the internet. It’s predictably sad.

Fortunately, a shred of hope for humanity was preserved when it was revealed that Sal9000 orchestrated the event as a piece of performance art – although it is unclear how serious he is actually taking the relationship. Apparently, he has sexed up his fair share of virtual girlfriends, so it is probably only a matter of time before technology progresses and he finds himself another woman with bigger and better… rendering. [Boing Boing]

The Elecom “Like a Spoon!” mouse wraps stainless steel around plastic like a little, electronic amuse-bouche. Of course, given its $US90 price and necessity to import (it’s Japan-only), the satisfaction had better last more than a moment.

[Elecom via Akihabara News via Engadget]

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The two were married when a man brought his DS along with a copy of Love Plus to a church in Guam. There’s no word on honeymoon plans, but the two will be holding a small reception for family, close friends and the internet on November 22. (Seriously, there will be a webcam and stuff.)

It just goes to show, the power of Woman has no bounds. Stick her in a digital fortress, simplify her beauty to Nintendo DS rendering limits and give her a shrill, anime voice. Woman will triumph all the same. [Tiny Cartridge via technabob]

The “3D LED Wall” is on show at the International Broadcast Equipment Exhibition in Japan, and really highlights just how much of a boner Sony has for 3D right now. They’ve got 3D laptops, TVs and Blu-ray players planned, and don’t forget new games and a firmware update will bring 3D to the PlayStation 3 next year, too.

[TechOn via Engadget]

According to Van Tillburg, it looks more like a Cold War submarine than a WW2 ship, built for high speed underwater travel. The I-401 was its sister vessel. That one was located in 2005, and it was capable of carrying 144 people through 59,545km, it was three times the size of modern submarines. Japan wanted to use these ships to launch aerial attacks in the continental United States. To do this, it used three Aichi light bombers, each capable of carrying an 800kg bomb. When their mission was complete, the bombers returned to the submarine, landing on the water using floats.

The Japanese also had another dirty trick in their pockets: use the submarines to deploy rats infected with the plague and insects loaded with cholera, dengue and typhus. Fortunately, they never were able to put that in practice before the Americans delivered to them a fat tin-can full of atoms.

These submarines were so advanced that, after being captured and inspected by the United States, they were sunk so the Soviets couldn’t inspect them. The Japanese were the pioneers in developing advanced aerial attack technology for submarines. The sea-to-air cruise missile was developed later, during the Cold War period. Nowadays, the US Navy is working on submarine-launched drones which can take off from underwater. [National Geographic via Daily Mail]

Baseball King Balls are specially designed polyethylene baseballs from Japan. By making adjustments to that band in the centre of each ball, you can alter their aerodynamics, thereby throwing a sinker, curveball, knuckleball, riser or screwball at will (no special training required!). The catch? There is no catch! Well… other than the obvious fact that these puppies aren’t regulation.

But I’m sure that millions of fans and countless MLB officials won’t even notice you holding the Baseball King on the cover of Sports Illustrated. [Japan Trend Shop via OhGizmo!]

The Japan Trend Shop also says the 2mm-thick lenses wouldn’t shatter, even if a 500g shaft of iron is dropped on them from 1.2m. You know, for those times when you escape the clinches of some evil mastermind at the last minute. I guess I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, but it still kinda sounds like they’re just pulling numbers out of the air.

If you’re in the market for a pair of super-rugged glasses, these puppies will only set you back $US317. Yikes. [Japan Trend Shop via DVICE]

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