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Japanese Toast-Coffee-Egg-Maker

Here’s an an ingenious way to make a complete breakfast at home without having to inundate your kitchen with single-use appliances. This new product from Japanese company Chuo Sangyo lets you make coffee, eggs, and toast all in one breath. It only takes 10 minutes and one outlet. Amazing. One Machine Makes Toast, Eggs, and…

Gadgets Lisa Katayama Dec 12

Humping Dog USB Drive Robs Us All of Precious Dignity

There’s really not much to say about this product that the video doesn’t eloquently say for me, so why don’t you go ahead and watch it and then come back. It’s OK, I’ll wait. There, you see? There’s no word on how to actually buy one of these, but let’s go ahead and consider that…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Dec 12

Santa Cell Phone Strap

For $3, you can get this ceramic Santa cell phone strap to attach to your cell phone. Maybe he’ll note your Christmas spirit, and bring you a Wii instead of your regularly scheduled lump of coal on the 25th. It doesn’t hurt to try. Santas Getting Lazy. Here’s How We’ll Fix It. [TokyoMango]

Tech News Lisa Katayama Dec 11

Gizmo on your Cell Phone

Gizmo’s cute, but they never made him small enough to carry around until Strap-ya came out with the strap version. I’m not sure if he reproduces asexually underwater or if he will die when hit by sunlight, but he does blink and wiggle and will hit you with a serious case of cute overdose every…

Tech News Lisa Katayama Dec 8

Robo USB Flash Drive Stomps on Japan

We think Sushi, Star Wars, Star Wars, and more Star Wars USB drives are cool, but this Kore Ja Nai Robo drive from Japan rocks hard. https://gizmodo.com/sushi-usb-flash-drives-23561 It features a pitiful 256MB of storage, but who cares? It’s an anime-looking robot! This is great for kids and people with traumatic childhood experiences that made stunted…

Gadgets Jason Chen Dec 7

Wii Definitely Region Locked

Sorry to disappoint gamers who planned on importing Japanese games to play on their consoles, but Nintendo’s Wii is definitely region locked. It’s not enough to just take our word for it, so here’s a video of a guy trying out a US Zelda game in his Japanese machine. We haven’t seen choking this bad…

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 7

Thanko USB Eye Warmer: Say Goodbye To Your Friends

OK, someone at Thanko must be on some really potent shrooms to have come up with the USB USHOTIW1 eye warmer. It plugs into the USB port of your PC or Mac and helps relieve stress and tension associated with staring at computer monitors all day. There’s a temperature control so you don’t end up…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Dec 7

Japanese Livingroom Diorama with Working 1.5-Inch TV

You probably saw that cool video of the Wii playing on a 1.5-inch TV. Here’s the set, which you can only buy in Japan, unfortunately. https://gizmodo.com/wii-on-a-1-5-inch-tv-219936 The livingroom is of the Showa era, which starts in 1926 and ends in 1989, as defined by the life of the Emperor Hirohito. (Thanks Wikipedia, history lesson over)…

Television Brian Lam Dec 6

Wii on a 1.5-inch TV

If you thought your Wii setup was bad, check out this diorama of a traditional Japanese living room complete with 1.5-inch TV, green haired anime girl and what looks like a Japanese Odysseus. Hey, there’s a rice cooker. Clips: Wii Playing on 1.5 Inch TV [Kotaku] http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/clips/clips-wii-playing-on-15-inch-tv-219845.php

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 6

Adwatch: Brad Pitt Teases Japanese Schoolgirls for Softbank

Cameron Diaz’s hotness combined with a new flat-rate calling plan crashed Softbank’s system back in October. What’s Brad Pitt’s new commercial for the Aquos-screened handset going to trigger? My prediction: schoolgirls will start to spontaneously combust from overexcitement, and their juices will bubble over to drown the entire island of Hokkaido. How much do you…

Tech News Lisa Katayama Dec 6

The Japanese Wii Safety Manual is Crazy

This crazy Japanese Wii safety manual is pretty much indicative of Japanese people’s general insanity. Our theory: a secret battle between Godzilla and several Gundams in the early 1980s bombarded the whole of Japan with cosmic G-rays, which allowed then-youths to grow up and draw these weird-ass manuals. First, hitting your husband in the face…

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 4

Japan Wii Launch, Ashcraft Style

This is just your friendly Gizmodo reminder that if you are living in Japan and forgot to preorder or stand in line for a Wii, you are officially fucked. Kotaku’s own male hair model Brian Aschcraft has been risking life and limb to bring us all the fun that is standing in line for a…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Dec 2

Psychic USB Drive From Japan

Japanese company Princeton has deposited some rather anemic 256MB~1GB thumb sticks onto the land of Japan. To make up for the lack of storage, they’re branding this with the “Seven Angels” label and including software that’s based on the Psychic abilities of Masako Mitaki. This lady’s apparently a big psychic over there in Ashcraft land.…

Gadgets Jason Chen Dec 1

Japanese Beer Cell Phone Strap

Japanese beer tastes like a whiff of spring air + soft tender boobies + alcohol, yet is more manly than Busch Light will ever be. But if you prefer to be locked up in your room playing with gadgets than getting a pint at a yakuza-run bar, then get a Japanese beer cell phone strap.…

Tech News Lisa Katayama Dec 1

Analyst Says PlayStation 4 Unlikely

Shortly after Ken Kutaragi was sidelined in favor of US head Kaz Hirai (partly due to PS3’s launch delays and various other troubles with their gaming business), an analyst at Nomura Holdings drops this bombshell. https://gizmodo.com/scia-to-ken-kutaragi-youre-fired-218625 The appointment of Hirai could be the start of a shift from hardware to software. I cannot now imagine…

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 1

Japan Wii Launch Hours Away, PS3 No Longer Impossible To Find

We may have gotten the Wii nearly two weeks ago, but the Japanese launch is going down today/tomorrow, depending on your time zone. Kotaku reports that the lines are made up of gamers from across the demographic spectrum, but then again, they could just be homeless vagrants. Meanwhile, the BBC says that many Japanese stores…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Dec 1

Ranut Disney-Themed MP3 Player: Good For Kids, Lousy For You

Over in Japan, Ranut is releasing a line of Disney-themed portable music players built around 256MB of flash memory. Granted, 256MB can effectively be rounded down to 0MB for most of us here, but your kids might still get a kick out of it. Other than being branded with familiar Disney characters like Minnie Mouse,…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Dec 1

LoopWing Makes Wind Power as Sexy as Wind Power Can Get

Using wind energy to supplement your energy bill is great if you like having a big ugly propeller sticking out of the top of your house. Which I don’t. Everyone knows that looks are priority #1 when it comes to sustainable energy; why do you think Al Gore spends so much time in a tanning…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Nov 30

Thanko VIGLBL01 Video Glasses: 37-inch Screen In Your Face

We’ve already established that Japan’s Thanko likes to make some wonky gadgets, so let today be no different. The VIGLBL01 Head Mounted Display plugs into any of your many video sources and displays the image on the tiny screens inside the unit. While you’re actually looking at two small screens, the unit plays tricks with…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Nov 30

Squid Postcards: Straight From the Sea to the Postman’s Hands to Your Mouth

Japan is crazy. Proof: they have squid jerky postcards over there. Luckily, the squid is shrink-wrapped to prevent postman hangnails getting mixed in there, but who knows; those might be a delicacy in Japan too. For under $3 each, consider your Christmas shopping taken care of. Product page (in Japanese) [via Pink Tentacle]

Tech News Adam Frucci Nov 29

Japanese Toast-Coffee-Egg-Maker

Humping Dog USB Drive Robs Us All of Precious Dignity

Santa Cell Phone Strap

Gizmo on your Cell Phone

Robo USB Flash Drive Stomps on Japan

Wii Definitely Region Locked

Thanko USB Eye Warmer: Say Goodbye To Your Friends

Japanese Livingroom Diorama with Working 1.5-Inch TV

Wii on a 1.5-inch TV

Adwatch: Brad Pitt Teases Japanese Schoolgirls for Softbank

The Japanese Wii Safety Manual is Crazy

Japan Wii Launch, Ashcraft Style

Psychic USB Drive From Japan

Japanese Beer Cell Phone Strap

Analyst Says PlayStation 4 Unlikely

Japan Wii Launch Hours Away, PS3 No Longer Impossible To Find

Ranut Disney-Themed MP3 Player: Good For Kids, Lousy For You

LoopWing Makes Wind Power as Sexy as Wind Power Can Get

Thanko VIGLBL01 Video Glasses: 37-inch Screen In Your Face

Squid Postcards: Straight From the Sea to the Postman’s Hands to Your Mouth

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