watashi to tokyo: Ig Nobel Award 2005.

Ignobel The Ig Nobel awards 2005 have been announced. Yes that one! The award for ~~useless~~ invention, something, well they said "Every Ig Nobel Prize winner has done something that first makes people LAUGH, then makes them THINK." Since every winner attended the ceremony, this would be a treasured prize I suppose.

Which one do you like the most? Me? Of course the Literature awards!!
"The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria, for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters - General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq., and others - each of whom requires just a small amount of expense money so as to obtain access to the great wealth to which they are entitled and which they would like to share with the kind person who assists them." ha ha ha! Nobody attended to the ceremony, I wanted to see them.

From Japan, Dr Nakamatsu got a Nutrition award for photographing and retrospectively analyzing every meal he had consumed during a period of 34 years (and counting). Dr Nakamatsu is well known in Japan as "squirrel". Here is his website. You can buy his inventions from an online shop, jumping shoes (exactly :-/(), Love Jet (make your sex nice), and Putter (have you seen this before?). Well when you check his profile, there is great history. Maybe they don't lie. (if he was a crook, Ig Nobel would not choose him.) He said "The only individual who licensed 16 patents to IBM." I heard it is true, but sometimes he is introduced as if he have invented the floppy disk. Of course it is not true, IBM invented it. I heard when IBM began selling floppy disks in Japan, they made a contract with someone who had a license which was close to the technology of floppies. However I read this on IBM's side, Nakamatsu's side doesn't want to talk about the details, I heard..

I wrote about Ig Noble last year in this "Bowlingual" post. Then I have realized Japanese got some awards in the last four years. In 2005, Dr.
Nakamatsu for "photographing and retrospectively analyzing every meal he has consumed during a period of 34 years". In 2004, Daisuke Inouse "for inventing karaoke, thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other." In 2003, Yukio Hirose "for his chemical investigation of a bronze statue, in the city of Kanazawa, that fails to attract pigeons." Then in 2002, Takara got it for "computer-based automatic dog-to-human language translation device-Bowlingual". Not only for them, many Japanese got this prize in past!! I am very proud of our country.