I saw these on the so interesting site boing boing and found them so smile inducing i decided to share. As Lisa Katayama describes them:

“A cool new way to keep tabletop plants in the house without the hassle of fallen leaves: Domsai, or little light-bulb-shaped bipedal plant-people with ceramic legs and a variation of plant-heads by Italian artist Matteo Cibic. The artist imagines they could double as virtual pets, Tamagochis that don’t whine if you don’t play with it.”

And then, looking further into Lisa Katayama’s blog I got a good laugh from this one. She quotes “John Kostiuk” as saying:

I took this photo with my iPhone on the Hibiya line in Tokyo. I patted the guy on the back and said Naka-Meguro a few times (the station was coming up) but got absolutely no response.

Maybe we Americans shouldn’t try to work as hard as the Japanese afterall.