Q & A AMA - Tenchi Masaki

[Tenchi Masaki]

Ask me anything

I’m Tenchi Masaki. I love inventing and crime solving. My glasses scan objects, record video, and see in multiple visual spectrums. My weapons of choice are my Tako staff and high-frequency sword. I love traveling the world in either my car Roadie or my plane the Daredevil. I also play Djinn my guitar for fun. To make spare cash I have a portable shop I take with me. It even sells coffee and tea.

 

[Lucy]

Cool Glasses, did you design them yourself?

 

[Everly]

How did you come up with the names for your car, plane and guitar?

 

[Tenchi Masaki]

Cool Glasses, did you design them yourself?

Why yes I did they are based on a previous design I made when I was a kid: the Smart Glass a computerized magnifying glass. I took it everywhere and scanned everything I could with it. But it could only identify a limited number of things.

 

[Tenchi Masaki]

How did you come up with the names for your car, plane and guitar?

Well my guitars A.I called Djinn was one of the first things I made. I put it in a used guitar I managed to earn and the guitar had the word lamp carved into it so I decided to call the A.I. D.J. Inn after the Arabic for genie when I saw Aladdin. When I got older and built my own guitar Djinn would handle the built in sound synthesizer system and can talk and play on his own. So he’s literally a DJ. Of course he also claims he’s a real genie but I remind him he can’t grant wishes.

 

[Tenchi Masaki]

How did you come up with the names for your car, plane and guitar?

My plane the Daredevil was designed by a aeronautical genius named Carlton Dunn almost 80 years ago. I acquired his blueprints from his family when his grandson saw my love for engines. I then built my own after I got the necessary parts as soon as I could!

 

[Tenchi Masaki]

How did you come up with the names for your car, plane and guitar?

My car Roadie is a story unto himself, but I’ll keep it as short as I can. Basically my love of building things carried over to cars and planes and I decided to focus on the engines as a priority. This led me to liking cars with huge horsepower for their time and finding old cars and restoring them with maybe a little extra tech thrown in depending on the car. When I found Roadies older brother Wheels a junked 67’ Mustang I discovered it had its original engine replaced with an FE40 engine which to put it simply is a big deal. I restored Wheels to better than new and drove the heck out of the retooled FE40. I then put in my GOV Engine variant the GOV-8. Roadie was a concept car and he and Wheels would be test driven at the same time the only problem was there was one of me and while they can drive themselves I sill needed another driver to test manual mode. So a whole story later I’m the driver for Roadie and Kylie is the driver for Wheels.

 

[Charlet]

Do you sleep with a teddy bear?

 

[Tenchi Masaki]

Do you sleep with a teddy bear?

I used to sweetie two in fact, A little Yogi Bear and the Uber tech powerhouse *drumroll* Teddy Ruxpin!!!

I think I was being encouraged to pursue science, One is smarter than the average bear, and the other is literally a robot, or is it bear bot?

 

[Chase]

If you had to pick one, which is your favorite gadget?

 

[Tenchi Masaki]

I would have to say my glasses since they’re the replacement for my smart magnifying glass. I used that all the time and developed a love for investigation and wandering aimlessly, but since they had limited object identification I had to figure out what most of the things I scanned were. When I made my glasses that love of exploration continued.

 

[Victorique]

What would be your ideal suit of armor made up of everyday objects (buckets, pans, bubble wrap, etc. May be held together by duck tape, gum etc.), the situation in which you would use it, and the weapon accompanying it?