The art of making wax food look delicious

For all those curious about how the delicious looking wax food in restaurant displays is made:

Wax tempura how to video:

Wax Melon Soda how to video:

Wax Crepe how to video:

The Real Deal: Wax food displays I saw in Tokyo:

Thanks to Watashi to Tokyo for the heads up on these great videos!

Magical Paper

Magical water from the crazy labs of Japan... when you drop things into it, they remain dry. I think they intend to use this water in sprinkler systems so that electronics/furniture/books aren't destroyed when the systems are set off? Very cool idea but I wonder what the health effects are?