Flying panties
Received via email:
March 6, 2010, Tokyo, JAPAN — NKH, an amateur group of aspiring web-livecasters, and Nicotech, an open Internet community of Sunday engineers, held Sora-Fes! and launched 150 of “Flying Panties.”
Sora-Fes, literary meaning “Sky-Festival” in Japanese, welcomed nearly 200 people who wanted to share their love for sky and flying toys. The 2000-yen($22) admission included a rubberband-powered ornithopter, or “Flying Panty,” which all participants made and launched together.
The brief movie about the event is shown at:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/1268052780
(requires Nicovideo registration)
or
http://www.nicotter.com/watch/1268052780
(unofficial Nicovideo mirror site)
I was actually quite surprised some time ago when several wholesale suppliers let me know that they’ll be carrying the flying panties product. I guess these guys are ready to take over the whole of Japan.
