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Bandai’s New Hyper Telescope For The Kids

Bandai’s New Hyper Telescope For The Kids

As a positive alternative to video games, Bandai has just announced their new Hyper Telescope for Japanese markets.  Capable of identifying over 1,000 objects, the Hyper Telescope uses a live “tracking system” LCD display to inform [...]

Japanese Robot Screams If She Is Poked Too Hard (video)

Japanese Robot Screams If She Is Poked Too Hard (video)

Let’s file this under “cool but kinda creepy”: Hanako is a Japanese-built robot created by three universities and a robotics manufacturer whose purpose is for training dentists. Her mouth is filled with sensors that are designed [...]

Sony’s S-Walkman Gets The Disney Treatment, Adorned With Mickey And Minnie

Sony’s S-Walkman Gets The Disney Treatment, Adorned With Mickey And Minnie

This is by far the first set of Micky Mouse inspired MP3s to come from Japan and I’m sure they’re not the last.  But now you can score an S-series Sony Walkman adorned with everyone’s favorite [...]

Sony Japan Active Shutter 3D TV Glasses And Infrared Emitter

Sony Japan Active Shutter 3D TV Glasses And Infrared Emitter

I think it’s safe to presume that you’re going to spend a significant amount of loot totally converting to 3-D TV and Blu-Ray.  Word from Sony Japan is that they’ve priced the TDG-BR100 and TDG-BR50 Active [...]

Casio G-Shock Man Box GA-110F-2JR: Most Head Exploding Watch In The World

Casio G-Shock Man Box GA-110F-2JR: Most Head Exploding Watch In The World

Talk about tawdry.  Looking like every Swatch Watch ever made mixed together, the Casio G-Shock Man Box has got to me to most cornea confusing watch there is.  At $225, it’s hard to imagine what kind [...]

RoboCar G Autonomous Vehicle (video)

RoboCar G Autonomous Vehicle (video)

The RoboCar G could easily be mistaken for a golf cart, but it’s much more than that.  Using a combination of sensors, including stereo cameras, laser rangefinders, radar and sonar, as well as an inertial measurement [...]

Smash Guitars Are 100 Percent Recyclable

Smash Guitars Are 100 Percent Recyclable

I really don’t understand this product.  The Japanese made Smash Guitars are cheap instruments that are manufactured from 100% recyclable materials beckoning the question, if you care that little about your guitar to smash it why [...]

A Real Deal Levitating Chair (video)

A Real Deal Levitating Chair (video)

Wheels, that’s so last year.  A research team at Japan’s Kobe Gakuin University have invented a wheel chair, or perhaps just a chair, that floats on a small cushion of air, sort of like a hovercraft, [...]

Self Contained Waterproof Pomme Bath Speaker

Self Contained Waterproof Pomme Bath Speaker

Taking the message in a bottle concept and adapting it to a music in a bathtub type scenario, the Self Contained Waterproof Pomme Bath Speaker will help your tunes float by when taking a hot and [...]

Wakaru Sheet Cloth Calculator

Wakaru Sheet Cloth Calculator

Letting you either eliminate your dish cloth or your kitchen counter calculator, this odd combination gadget is sure to have fools WTF’ing all over the place.  Available in a myriad of different colors and patterns this [...]