Japan Factiod No. 2,235: In the Hanshin Quake, 19% of the people were killed by their crappy airconditioners.

Japanese air conditioner photos
via BoingBoing
... a slideshow of photographs by Huschang Pourian, a designer living in Tokyo. Pourian is exhibiting his photographs of air conditioners ...
.... elements like tubes and wires destroying this order, going through walls, spreading chaos and confusion. Connected to these were white boxes with fans inside. I suddenly fell in love (visually) with these air conditioners and started chasing them....
But air conditioners are not just beautiful. Beside the fact that
they make our lives much more comfortable.......more...

Taro Toporific wrote:Japan Factiod No. 2,235: In the Hanshin Quake, 19% of the people were killed by their crappy airconditioners.

and probably another 30% were killed by collapsable cinder block walls

on the subject of air conditioners:

Shizioka Prefecture is proud to announce that it is the air conditioner capital of Japan. Man THAT is a source pride.

http://www.pref.shizuoka.jp/kikaku/ki-20/english/pride/industrial/aircon.htm