Contuing coverage of the Tokyo International Gift Show, ITmedia today brings images and explanations of some various gifts that react to humans. There’s too many explain here, but I found the most depressing to be the “Little Nod” from Bandai (pictured at right). The basic concept is similar to a magic 8-ball, except that you get positive and negative response. There is apparently a 70% chance of the former, and 30% chance of the latter; the doll will nod for affirmative and shake its head for negative.
Takara also displayed a new Tamagotchi with various interesting voice-based abilities (both recognition and synthesis), Child Mind had some bags of chips that will laugh and move when they detect laughter (wtf?), and Bandai presented their new “meat voice” figures which talk in a (dead) famous person’s voice as “calculated” from portraits and their physique. What the hell? I want to waste my money on stuff like this in America.
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