That's so epic, I feel ashamed of myself for not doing anything even close to that cool, ever.

some things, you just want to own at first sight, this is one of those things. Ofc it would have to go in the far end of the house, things a bit noisy for my tastes

#1 no need to feel any shame for not doing such a thing. if time and money were not an issue, we could do just about anything we can imagine.

I do admire his imagination capabilities. I probably would not ever have had imagine about something like this to even try building one.

and #2 i would not want to own such a thing. i get frustrated when the time display on my microwave gets unset due to a power outage, let stand this thing not running because i forgot to reset the weights every so many hours.

All he needs to do now is scale it down so it fit's on the wrist (My wrist!) and I'll have one. He's Japanese shouldn't be a problem, now that would be a proper smart watch. He does need to sort out the 8's though, they are a little shitty

#4 Perhaps all that time-saving efficiency is what he endeavors to avoid, like the model maker discussed in this insightful clip? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7UHX9PsbEc

#5 Sounds to me like a severe form of depression, caused by a very harsh external environment, in this case the society you live in....really very sad. Thanks for sharing this interesting link.

#6 Yeah, it's complicated: http://www.hermitary.com/solitude/hikikomori.html