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The only officially recognized replica of Shotaro Kaneda's motorcycle from Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira manga and film is currently traveling across Japan. Shinji Tejima from the Showa Studio automobile repair shop spent seven years and approximately 10 million yen (about US$121,400) to build the motorcycle, and he is riding it across Japan to raise money for the children's autism support group Bokura Company. Tejima started his journey in Fukuoka where he lives and is traveling south and has stopped in various cities such as Osaka, Nagoya, and on Shōdo Island. ...

It was FBI Agent Dale Cooper who let Sheriff Harry Truman and fans of Twin Peaks in on a little secret:...

Stormtroopers in real life situations...

There was a rumor back in 2010 that Commodorewas planning to relaunch the Amiga. Now the retro computer brand has gone and done it, launching this high-end, small form factor gaming PC—as well as a new reissue of its classic C64.OK, so it looks like a fairly hideous reworking of a Mac Mini. But, but... it's an Amiga! Shadow of the Beast and Lemmings will never have looked as good.

Commodore has managed to squeeze a 3.5GHz Sandy Bridge Core i7 CPU, a 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 GPU, 16GB of RAM, a Blu-ray drive, and a 1TB hard drive into its shiny little aluminum case.

The best—or weirdest—bit is that the thing actually runs a Linux-based Commodore OS called Vision, which includes remakes of classic Commodore software. At $2495, despite it's novelty, I can't imagine too many being sold.