Examining Tokyo's Media Immersion Pods

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday May 13, 2006 @05:23PM from the import-this-concept-please dept.

the terminal of geoff goodfellow writes "The New York Times has an article on the Bagus Gran Cyber Café in Tokyo, where customers rent so-called media immersion pods. From the article: 'At first glance the spread looks officelike, but be warned: these places are drug dens for Internet addicts outfitted with VHS and DVD players, satellite and regular television on a Toshiba set, PlayStation 2, Lineage II and a Compaq computer loaded with software, all the relevant downloads and hyperspeedy Internet. In the nearby library were thousands of comic books, magazines and novels.'"

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you're bullshiting or completely clueless by Anonymous Coward · 2006-05-13 18:37 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I've always found Japan's ultra consumption to be frightening.

Japan doesn't have a lot of cars, the homes there are small, and often they don't even have room heating. I find it hard to imagine you're that ignorant, you're probably lieing through your teeth and really a 300 pound american with a hummer.