Japanese company unveils futuristic cooling box that blasts cold air at users in bizarre way to beat the heat

We're right in the molten center of summer, and that means people are doing whatever they can to stay cool. In the U.S., that's pretty easy. Sit in your air-conditioned house, plug in a fan, go to a pool or, if you're truly at a loss, head to the library and pretend to be interested in reading books for an afternoon. But over in Japan — the birthplace of such technological innovations as the Walkman, the Nintendo Entertainment System and used-panty vending machines — they've come up with a new s