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Overkill, Thy Name Is This Tiny, Tablet-Cleaning, Roomba-Like Robot

We all hate using a smartphone or tablet when the screen’s covered in greasy fingerprints. But it’s a situation that’s easy to solve with nothing but a shirt sleeve, or if you’re particularly anal, a microfiber cloth. What the world doesn’t need is a tiny Roomba-like cleaning device designed specifically for cleaning fingerprints, but apparently…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 5

Indoor Kite Provides Several Minutes of Agoraphobic Fun

Targeting the lucrative markets of agoraphobes, those with sun allergies, and residents of windless cities, Takara Tomy has created an indoor kite that majestically soars as high as the ceiling—with sufficient cranking, that is. You see, this is one of those eco toys that trades endless battery charges for endless amounts of physical effort to…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 13

These Incredibly Lifelike Robotic Fish Will Never Go Belly Up

Great news if your aquarium goes through fish faster than a fish n’ chips restaurant. Takara Tomy has created these robotic alternatives that will swim around your tank in an incredibly lifelike fashion. But they never need to be fed, and more importantly, will never dirty the tank. The robot fish run on a set…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Nov 13

Transformers Clock Doesn’t Fight Crime, Just Tells The Time

Japanese watch purveyors Seahope have come up trumps with a Transformers clock which I’m hoping can actually transform into a watch. It was built with Takara Tomy‘s permission, which makes all the Transformers merchandise (often licensing it to Hasbro, where it’s re-branded). Kind of like a Tokyo Flash watch stuck in the middle of some…

Tech News Kat Hannaford May 26

Japanese Voice Recorder Toy Plays Back Everything You Say In Reverse

It’s simple. Takara Tomy‘s Sakasa Master Japan records anything you say and spits it out backwards. If you’re needing gift ideas for random relatives, this $15 toy should get a week’s use before it’s tossed aside. [Strapya via TokyoMango]

Tech News Adrian Covert Oct 28

Bowlingual Discovers that Every Dog Has an Inner Japanese Woman

What is your dog trying to say when he’s barking at bicyclists riding by your window? If only we spoke Japanese, we’d know. Back in 2002, TakaraTomy released a device called the Bowlingual, which claimed to translate a dog’s barking into human dialect you could read from a screen. Now, 7 years later, the company…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 23

Cheapo Version of Wii Fit Offers 100 Million Workouts

Jump into your glittery spandex pants and crown you head with that leopard headband, because you are going to need them to follow the 100 million—yes, million—three-minute workouts of the Minutes Gym Digital Video Trainer. That’s what Takara Tomy says: Their $73 Minutes Gym thingie will give you 100,000,000 different workout exercises, three minutes each.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 30

Takara Tomy’s Doggy Pedometer Encourages Your Pets Not To Be As Lazy As You

Takara Tomy has come out with a dog-specific, digital pedometer that not only works as a digital dog tag, but also records your dog’s physical activities including eating, sleeping and walking. But what about sexing? Unlike pedometers for humans that can only regulate movement in two legs, the $55 doggy pedometer uses special technology that…

Tech News Andi Wang Mar 16

Re-Released Takara Tomy Transformers Watch Needs a Little More AllSpark

If you need help reliving your childhood, Takara Tomy is re-releasing its classic Transformers watch. I don’t remember Transformers looking so drab though. Funny what a few years will do to your perspective. The Transformers Chrono Label will come in two versions: Cybertron Autoceptor and Destron Time Limit. The old-school dot graphic timepiece detaches from…

Tech News Elaine Chow Jan 22

Tomy’s Piggy Bank Comes With Built-In RPG

Japanese kids and otaku need slightly more motivation than the rest of us to save money, and to that end, Takara Tomy has made a piggy bank with an RPG game built right on there. It’s called Bank Quest (was Final Bank Fantasy taken?) and you can buy weapons and armor for your dude from…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 20

A Quick Glimpse of Tokyo Toy Show 2008

For those of us not lucky enough to be at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, here’s a quick highlight video running through some of the more interesting products. Our favorite has to be the AeroSpider by Takara Tomy. It’s an R/C car that can burn donuts on 90-degree surfaces (like walls) and then top off…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 20

Le Soba Machine Gets you Soba in the Privacy of your Own Home

Soba lovers of the world rejoice, for you can now buy the Ie Soba from Takara Tomy, a machine that can make you Soba noodles at home. Traditionally rather a time-consuming process, all you need is buckwheat powder, wheat flour, water and 20 minutes. See it boxed up below. The Ie Soba costs $139, but…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Nov 28

Takara Tomy Air Filter for Babies Cleans Air, But Chokes You With Its Cuteness

Famed maker of awesome Takara Tomy’s latest bundle of cool is a super cute air filter for babies. It’s outfitted with an antibacterial filter and Sharp’s “decontamination ion” purification tech (my AC in Japan actually had this too) so your offspring don’t inhale all the nasty, germ-y stuff floating around your house. It’s about $150…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Nov 1

i-SOBOT, World’s Smallest Humanoid Robot, Hits US Next Month

Takara Tomy’s 6.5-inch, Guinness-certified “smallest humanoid robot in production,” i-SOBOT, is finally making its way to our primitive shores next month. The English website and price are still “coming soon,” but since this dancing, push-upping wunderbot runs about $300 in Japan, we can pretty safely guess it’ll be thereabouts. Hopefully we’ll have our meatpuppet mitts…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Sep 17

Virtual Train Simulator For Japanese Kids

Can you imagine what kind of boring life you’d grow up to have if what you played with as a Japanese kid was a virtual commuter train simulator? All you do is go from one commuter stop to the next, picking up other sad sack salarymen, all the while enjoying the sights that is Japan’s…

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 2

Bomb Piggy Bank Explodes When You Take Money Out

Well “explodes” is perhaps a bit harsh, but if you take too long to retrieve your cash monies, the LED fuse lights up and the bomb gets a bit unruly—it starts shaking and then chucks your coinage. If that sounds like your idea of a party (Uncle Scrooge, what?) you can pick one up in…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Jun 29

Japanese Toy Company Makes The World’s Smallest 2-Legged Robot

The Omnibo2007 i-SOBOT is the smallest 2-legged robot in the world. It’s just 96x67x165mm and weighs only 350g. An internal gyro-sensor gives is maximum flexibility while an attached IR remote control has voice command features and pre-programming capabilities. If you clap or play music, the i-SOBOT will dance to the beat. It goes on sale…

Tech News Lisa Katayama Jan 23

NEC Laptop For Secret Spy Missions

NEC and Takara Tomy’s Secret Fort Type-No1 laptop wins mad props for creativity and nothing for style. It’s basically an ordinary laptop disguised as a secret fort for that spy mission that’s taking place in that crazy head of yours. It comes with an emergency button, a “glitter” LED screen for flashing urgent messages, a…

Tech News Lisa Katayama Jan 12

Overkill, Thy Name Is This Tiny, Tablet-Cleaning, Roomba-Like Robot

Indoor Kite Provides Several Minutes of Agoraphobic Fun

These Incredibly Lifelike Robotic Fish Will Never Go Belly Up

Transformers Clock Doesn’t Fight Crime, Just Tells The Time

Japanese Voice Recorder Toy Plays Back Everything You Say In Reverse

Bowlingual Discovers that Every Dog Has an Inner Japanese Woman

Cheapo Version of Wii Fit Offers 100 Million Workouts

Takara Tomy’s Doggy Pedometer Encourages Your Pets Not To Be As Lazy As You

Re-Released Takara Tomy Transformers Watch Needs a Little More AllSpark

Tomy’s Piggy Bank Comes With Built-In RPG

A Quick Glimpse of Tokyo Toy Show 2008

Le Soba Machine Gets you Soba in the Privacy of your Own Home

Takara Tomy Air Filter for Babies Cleans Air, But Chokes You With Its Cuteness

i-SOBOT, World’s Smallest Humanoid Robot, Hits US Next Month

Virtual Train Simulator For Japanese Kids

Bomb Piggy Bank Explodes When You Take Money Out

Japanese Toy Company Makes The World’s Smallest 2-Legged Robot

NEC Laptop For Secret Spy Missions

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