Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/19/secret-base-of-kubito.html
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Not bad for a hole-in-the-wall.
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What I find most interesting about this, is finding someone using Bing.
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I wonder what the rent is on that place in Tokyo.
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Some rodent in going to be really happy.
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Really amazing detail. The lamp on the desk even works. Going with an old CRT computer monitor is an odd choice. Maybe they don’t make 1’’ flat screens
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Wow. This is so adorably cool, I can’t even handle it.
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More than you can afford.
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It’s not “Kubito,” it’s “Kobito”—which means (directly translated, and I think also in spirit) “little person.”
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Hammy the Hamstersan’s office?
Excellent concept and props by Mozu.
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The tiny hidden room really hit me. When I was a little kid, we lived in a place with slatted hardwood flooring. While in bed, I used to fancifully imagine pulling up one of the slats in my bedroom, revealing a miniature tunnel, very brightly lit and containing the busy traffic of sleek futuristic vehicles zooming in and out of our place. I think I understand Mozu!
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Completely unrealistic. That CRT has way too flat front glass.
The Borrowers are sending out change of address cards.
I beg to differ.
Late CRT monitors and TV got a flat screen surface
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I like the style of it. Also, more space for the lighting inside.
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Surely, some driven artist out there has done a tinier room hidden inside a tiny room.
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Some did, sure (I had an LG Flatron monitor myself), but they were quite rare as CRTs went. A few series from a few manufacturers at most. And of course I don’t count “flat”-glassed TVs that were actually curved but had a flat piece of glass placed in front of the actual CRT.
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Your move, tiny house enthusiasts. 
If you have to ask… 
Flat screen CRT monitors were a thing for a few years before cheap high-res color LCDs. You can still get them on eBay, though I don’t think they made them quite that small…
Maybe it was just Microcenter and PC Magazine where I did most of my computer shopping in the 90’s, but I remember them being quite common.
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Not only that, but it’s showing an “About MacOS” screen in the classic style and the computer is a Power Macintosh 7600. Recognisable on the floppy drive slot.
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