Keiichi Tsuchiya (土屋圭市, Tsuchiya Keiichi, born January 30, 1956) is a professional race car driver. He is known as the Drift King (ドリキン, Dorikin) for his nontraditional use of drifting in non-drifting racing events and his role in popularizing drifting as a motorsport. He is also known for touge (mountain pass) driving.
The car he drives, a Toyota AE86 Sprinter Trueno, has become one of the most popular sports cars; the car is also known as “Hachi-Roku” in Japan (hachi-roku meaning “eight six”); his car is also called “The Little Hachi that could.” A video known as Pluspy documents Tsuchiya’s touge driving with his AE86.
He was a consultant for the popular manga and comic book series, Initial D, of which the main character Takumi Fujiwara is a character which describes him. He also served as a stunt coordinator and stuntman on The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, where he also made a cameo appearance.
Gundam (ガンダム, Gandamu), also known as the Gundam series (ガンダムシリーズ一覧, Gandamu Shirīzu ichiran), is a Japanese science fiction media franchise/media mix created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Sunrise that features giant robots (mecha) with the name “Gundam” (after the original titular mecha). The franchise began on April 7, 1979 with Mobile Suit Gundam, a TV series that defined the “real robot” mecha anime genre by featuring giant robots called mobile suits in a militaristic setting. The popularity of the series and its merchandise spawned a franchise that includes television series, OVAs, films, manga, novels and video games, as well as a whole industry of model robots known as Gunpla (plastic Gundam model).
The Ghost Army was a United States Army tactical deception unit during World War II officially known as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. The 1100-man unit was given a unique mission within the Allied Army: to impersonate other Allied Army units to deceive the enemy. From a few months after D-Day, when they landed in France, until the end of the war, they put on a “traveling road show” utilizing inflatable tanks, sound trucks, fake radio transmissions, scripts and pretence. They staged more than 20 battlefield deceptions, often operating very close to the front lines.
Steve Jobs made a name for himself when he famously stated that Apple has “always been shameless about stealing great ideas,” but did the tech juggernaut steal a Florida man’s designs for an “electronic reading device”?
In June 2016, Apple found themselves in hot water when Thomas S. Ross decided to sue them for $10 billion, for stealing his idea.
According to Ross, way back in 1992, he filed a patent for an “electronic reading device,” a rectangular, hand-held gadget with a screen.
Alongside the $10 billion-plus in compensation, Ross claims he is owed “reasonable royalty” of 1.5% of all of Apple’s future sales.
Considering that Apple made in the region of $200 billion in revenue in 2016, that would mean an extra $2 billion or so a year on top of the payout.
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