Japan Builds Machine That Can Shape Water

Impressive! Presumably, they could use this to make any kind of wave shape for testing boats?

Now if only they can make those water-tunnels from Myst II.

I think I saw that here some time ago...

Wait, found it:
http://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/07/writing-on-water/

You know, these days we live largely in a global society and have a global economy, or at least we seem to be headed in that direction.

Eventually we're going to need a "New World Order" type of governing body to deliberate on global standards. The U.N. is the obvious choice for such a force but most of us countries who make up the U.N. are....well....we're kind of A******s.

Can we just elect Japan? I'm being kind of sarcastic but seriously, they don't seem to be concerned with beating anybody up (anymore) or robbing anyone, they just spend all of their time being entertainingly strange and making cool stuff.

"The freeze-frame here implies that they've creating a static shape in the water ..."

And exactly what kind of still image would you recommend that does not freeze the action?

See, all that whale killing, I mean research, is finally paying off with useful stuff like this!