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The future is now in the land of the rising sun

Dec 31, 2007 10:17

Nintendo Wii Fit rides fast on Snake-head channel

December 1, 2007. Early morning on this day, hundreds of gadget shops in Japan started releasing the long-awaited Nintendo Wii Fit to eager fans.

Still pitch dark in the small hours, people queued up in front of shops quietly. In Shinjuku area where several giant electronic outlets cut each other's throat, the line of people stretched to hundreds of meters by the time of 0930 hours, the opening time of Wii Fit Derby.

Wii Fit Balance Board, the cult gadget.

Dec 28, 2007 07:15

Adult's toy? No, it's your dream-come-true

Posted by mobileojisan

Japanese toymaker Takara-Tomy gives dreams and fantasies to billions of kids all over the world... in exchange for good money. Nothing wrong about that, because Takara-Tomy is not a philanthropic outfit anyway.

Takara-Tomy's Rokuro Club: The small potter's wheel is turning busily.

Dec 24, 2007 07:49

This rice cooker can smite your mother-in-law

Posted by mobileojisan

Kitchen space of Japanese family is rather restricted... well, it'd be an understatement. Japanese kitchens are outright microscopic, and hard to find them with human eyes. Yes, they're that small. Besides, they are cluttered, disorganized and it's almost impossible to keep them spotlessly clean.

Therefore, people hate to add another useless kitchen gadget. No more space left to install a computerized potato peeler/slicer, an automatic fishball flyer or things like that. Nevertheless, quite a few gears have slipped in ineviably. A microwave oven (called "Ching!" generally), and a ubiquitous rice cooker.

Toshiba's clever RC-5NX rice cooker.
A misnomer, it can perform quite a few stunts.

Dec 21, 2007 09:33

End of the year blues can be eased up by a dedicated (and expensive) gadget

Posted by mobileojisan

Printing New Year's greeting postcards is a nerve shattering business for millions of Japanese.

Most of the severe nervous break-downs, burn-outs and combat-fatigues occur on the home front of Christmas time, not on Iraqi battle ground. Especially, in present day America.

There, millions of zombie-like shoppers aimlessly roam around vast suburban malls, and buy up all kinds of junks and trinkets for the sake of the mad mad exchange of Chrismas presents.

"Sweetheart, we've nearly finished our Chrismas shopping. Thank Goodness, we came through rather lightly this year. We spent only half our annual income for the Christmas..."

"Sure, darling, but wait a minute. We forgot Jenny, your ex-wife's nephew's incumbent girlfriend. Last Christmas, she gave us a castration kit for pet animals, the most useless and tasteless present of all. We have to retaliate. Quick, the most horrible and useless thing to give her... think out quickly!"

Dec 17, 2007 06:06

Kid's Key locks your kid into a small world

Posted by mobileojisan

I guess your kids can boot and tamper your home computer freely while you are away at work. It's inevitable, somehow. Computers are the great toys for them, errorneously regarded as "educational toys".

Sometimes, kids find and click your bookmark, and hit your not-very-prideful data-mining results of late night. How embarassing.

"Dad, your computer's full of naked women pictures. Why don't they wear clothes? It's winter now, brrrrrr."