Kitto Katsu

I saw this on the BBC tonight and just could not pass it up.
Japan snaps up ‘lucky’ Kit Kats

Also mentioned on Metropolis:

” The sale of lucky charms sky-rocketed as high school students prepared to sit their university entrance exams, with Kit Kat chocolate bars (kitto katsu meaning something like “it’s a sure thing I’m going to beat this game”) proving particularly popular, including a chocolate bar designed to recall the calm of matcha tea.”
Metropolis – Lucky charms

M&M Sorter

This is cool, as much as I would steer people away from the Stamp as a micro platform (I am including a link to one build on the Lynxmotion arm for a contrast), this application is moderately cool. It will recognize the color of an M&M candy and drop them into the correct hopper. How this could help you? Well, that would be up to you, but even if you don’t have an immediate app, building it would still be fun.
M&M Sorter
Lynxmotion M&M Sorter

LED Lighting

I found a Japanese page on energy efficent home lighting fixtures that use LEDs. I’d like to be able to buy lights like these from Homedepot. I bought a set of LED Christmas lights for my brother, I’ll have to pick up a set for myself next year.
Do it Ene it with the lighting of conserving?

I found a few more links to LEDs in the home. The Luxeon lamps are just darn bright, I’d like a few of them. The second link is a great review of high brightness LEDs and other LED applications. Dans Data is a pretty handy site for finding info about stuff.
Luxeon High Brightness LEDs
LED Light Roundup