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- Man Proposes to Girlfriend with Epic GPS-Recorded Trek across Japan
- Chinese University Student Creates His Own Marvel Avengers Suits
- Australian Dad Lights Up Canberra with World’s Largest Christmas Lights Display
| Man Proposes to Girlfriend with Epic GPS-Recorded Trek across Japan Posted: 03 Dec 2014 05:05 AM PST If you thought Skywriting was a romantic way to propose, wait till you hear about GPS writing. The ingenious idea belongs to Yasushi Takahashi – a.k.a Yassan – who spent six whole months trekking through Japan as a way of proposing to his girlfriend. At the end of his journey, the GPS records of his travels spelled the phrase ‘Marry Me’ with a heart sign to boot. It all started in 2008, when Yassan, then 31, quit his job and planned a journey through Japan, taking with him a GPS device and a map. His purpose was two-fold: to experience a Japan that he only knew in books, and also to draw a special message for his girlfriend using GPS tracking technology. Yassan managed to cover over 7,000 kilometers in six months, mostly by foot and sometimes by car, ferry or bicycle. Every place that he walked through was carefully planned beforehand to get the gigantic magic phrase just right.
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| Chinese University Student Creates His Own Marvel Avengers Suits Posted: 03 Dec 2014 04:40 AM PST Chinese student Zu Bingqun is living the dream of almost every comic book lover in the world. No, he hasn't become a superhero himself, but he does have an amazing collection of Avengers suits that he built himself, from scratch. Zu said that by building the suits, he is trying to fulfill his own childhood dream of becoming a superhero. A senior student at the Changchun University of Technology, Zu has been working on the outfits since 2012. He starts by downloading a blueprint of each superhero's suits and buying the necessary materials for the build online. He then begins the painstaking process of molding each part of the suit and putting it all together. |
| Australian Dad Lights Up Canberra with World’s Largest Christmas Lights Display Posted: 03 Dec 2014 03:14 AM PST When Australian lawyer David Richards started decorating his family home for Christmas four years ago, little did he know that the simple pastime would snowball into a huge passion. The father-of-three is now a self-proclaimed 'crazy Christmas lights guy'. Impressed with the display of lights at his home last year, Richards was invited to transform Petrie Plaza in Canberra's Central Business District into an epic Christmas spectacle this year. And Richards has not disappointed – this year's display consists of a whopping 120 kilometers of lights and over one million light bulbs. Petrie Plaza now features a 3-D image constructed of lights, covering more than 41,000 square feet, in the shape of three large Christmas presents. The spectacular display has won Richards a place in the Guinness Book for the third time. He won the record last year when he decorated his home with 502,165 lights, and once before in 2011. "Christmas lights really get people into the festive spirit,” Richards told Guinness. “We decorated our home for years, and people came from everywhere to see our lights. This year, who knows how many people will come along?” |
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