For Japan's upcoming Apology Day, an interactive website by the name of Ayamari Bijin offers 31 different girls apologizing in video messages, along with stacks of photos of them looking "remorseful". You can even find out their blood types! The best thing is that as they're all speaking in Japanese, you don't have the flipping faintest idea what they're actually apologizing for. You could pretend it's for actually daring to ask for a cuddle after sexytimes last night. Or perhaps for squeezing the toothpaste from the wrong end.

Perhaps you're a more vanilla kind of guy, in which case you'd rather hear Japanese girls say how much they love you? Either way, if you can't speak Japanese, it's much of a muchness. For $25, the Hougen CD has 600 different girls saying "I love you" in their various Japanese dialects.

So what'll it be tonight, men? Apologies or confessions of love? [Japan Trends and CrunchGear]

Basically, the ladies stand on conductive pads on the floor, and paint their (and Harris's) hands with the conductive skin-safe ink called Bare Conductive. When Harris slaps his hands against those of the ladies, a small current travels through their bodies and onto the pads on the floor, which triggers a sound, all without the girls feeling a thing. He uses eight models to play the main accompaniment, and the others perform a tightly-choreographed routine to create the rhythm. I trust all comments will be about this interesting ink. [Creative Review via Metafilter]

Sitting tight together, head to head, one was frantically rubbing her thumb against the Gameboy D-pad, while the other clicked the buttons. They were laughing, playing constantly, and actually having loads all fun all the way to Manhattan. I don't know what game they were playing, but it was a really sweet moment to see two people enjoying themselves in such a silly and careless way.

Does this do anything for you? It's shot with seductive down-shirt and down-skirt angles while talking (supposedly seductively and suggestively) about tools, but she still has her clothes on. There are plenty of sites to look at tools, plenty of sites to look porn and plenty of sites at instructional videos to learn how to fix your home—there's no reason to mix those together in a confusing and painful jumble. [Boing Boing Gadgets]

From the app's descritption: "A beautiful girl will tease you until you get today's forecast with your sky condition and the temperature you'll feel." Well, alright. She could be a little less conservatively dressed in some of these, but beggars can't be choosers I suppose.

And here I was reading David Lynch's LA forecasts like a sucker. I don't even LIVE in LA. But this does bring up an interesting collaboration possibility: Sexy David Lynch Weather Forecasts? Now we're talking. Pin Up Weather costs $2. [App Store]

While I'm partial to Eastern European natural redheads lately, all these can start plenty of China Syndrome incidents. However, the rest of the participants must be there because they grew up next to Chernobyl. [Participants via Danger Room]

Marked NSFW because some of you complained. People, do you really live in the US or in Iran?

The piece, which is the first of a planned series of five, is a masterful piece of Photoshop work. And that realism tickles all the parts of us that are curious about the future of humanoid robots. Sure, they're pretty impractical with today's tech due to the awkwardness of robots with two legs (see: Asimo). But at the rate advancements are moving, this might not be that fantastical an image at some point in our lifetimes. [AP via NotCot.org]

Playing Wii Fit by yourself is lonely. But here, playing along with a maid makes exercising enjoyable.

He is right. And yes, I love French maid dresses. Not to wear them, though. Too bad Brian has left Japan already, because this called for a hands-on. [Refresh Club (NSFW) via Kotaku]

The Price: $60

The Verdict: The results speak for themselves. I'm shocked at how much fun I had giving my co-workers beautiful new lady looks, so I can only imagine how much a girl who actually was interested in makeovers could get out of it.

The program was easy enough for youngins to use but still kept some important features like zooming, rotating and adjusting the size of add-on accessories, while also being able to import your own photos. I did find the available styles to be somewhat, well, homogeneous. The program promises downloadable updates, though, so hopefully they will add more diverse hairstyles and accessories.

Sadly, the hardware component isn't that great. The built-in webcam took blurry pics. The drawing pad wasn't very responsive and I didn't really find the need for it. Then again, I'm not used to putting on makeup.

All in all, it's a fun computer program and an okay gadget, not to mention a fantastic new way to imagine Jason Chen as a surfer chick. [GirlTech]

[Flesh Asia Daily (NSFW) via The Gadget Blog]

The device registers user profiles so that Smart Berry owners can only send and receive mail from friends. Up to four units can communicate with each other at the same time if they're all within a 10-meter diameter. Additionally, it also has a virtual Tamagotchi-like pet you can play with. The toy costs $97 and is targeted at girls from ages 6 to 9. Boys who want to send emails on a faux-mobile device while raising their own virtual pet are SOL this time around, I guess. [Tech On]

Update: Robert from Robots Rule tells us that it's just a localized version of the Femisapien, which we've covered before.

This method seems like it'd work in theory. Being able to withstand a woman staring at you angrily for minutes at a time is a skill you have to work on developing. 96 minutes is a long time, however, and Mark Wilson says he only needs about 4 minutes. [Crunchinatrix]

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