"Universal Jigsaw Puzzle" Hits Stores In Japan

Riktov writes "I came across this at a Tokyo toy store last week, and it's one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. Jigazo Puzzle is a jigsaw puzzle, but you can make anything with it. It has just 300 pieces which are all just varying shades of a single color, though a few have gradations across the piece; i.e., each piece is a generic pixel. Out of the box, you can make Mona Lisa, JFK, etc, arranging it according to symbols printed on the reverse side. But here's the amazing thing: take a photo (for example, of yourself) with a cell-phone, e-mail it to the company, and they will send you back a pattern that will recreate that photo. This article is in Japanese, but as they say, a few pictures are worth a million words. And 300 pixels are worth an infinite number of pictures."

Comments

If it was not japanese...

[mad flyer]

It would be considered totally retarded... But as usual the 'japan' aura hide the fact that it's nothing more than manual rasterisation...

Yes you can use human to do machine (computer) work... is it always smart/usefull/entertaining in a non masochist way ? not often...

Next up on 'news from japan' two new devices who, when combined can perfectly replace your printer:
pen and paper...