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Face-Upper Promises to Lift Your Sagging Cheeks for a Younger-Looking You

By Hazel Chua on 10/17/12 • Leave a comment!

Face Upper

Japan is the country where all things quirky exist, like this strange-looking mouthpiece called the Face-Upper. It’s not a mouth guard, it’s not something that will make your teeth straighter, and it’s not part of some teeth-whitening system either. No, it’s actually a nifty little device that promises to give your sagging cheeks a much-need lift.

That’s right ladies (and the occasional gent), you can now give your face a lift without having to go under the knife. That’s according to the people behind the Face-Upper, that is. All you have to do is pop it into your mouth for three minutes a day and you’ll get a tighter mouth and tighter cheeks in no time.

Skeptical? Yeah, we are, too. The Face-Upper costs a whole lot less than plastic surgery (it’s only $66) and it won’t even hurt, too. But we’re just not sure that it’ll actually work.

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Magic Spray Changes Poo Odor To Flowers… Using Magic Or Something

By David Ponce on 09/19/12 • Leave a comment!

Color us skeptical, but a product coming out of Japan for the price of $20 claiming to turn the smell of feces into the smell of flowers doesn’t seem real. But that’s just what the Magic Spray is supposed to do. Meant to be spritzed over used diapers, it presumably uses some chemical concoction to specifically convert the bad smell to a good/better one, and not to simply try to cover it up like a deodorant.

Yeah, if someone is willing to give it a try and report back to us, we’ll be waiting with bated breath. Also, any Japanese speakers able to look over a non machine-translatable graphic at the product link below can perhaps enlighten us as well.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ DamnGeeky ]

RPG7 PET Bottle Launcher Looks Awesome

By David Ponce on 07/31/12 • 1 Comment

We’re sorely lacking in details on this product because the website is Japanese and all the text is in an image, making it almost impossible to use Google Translate. We do think we know this much: it’s a toy designed to launch water bottles as if they were rocket propelled grenades. They are… water propelled bottles? With a 35º angle, you can launch a 600cc bottle up to 35meters away. That’s… not very far! But it’s still cool because it looks like an RPG launcher and if you were to use it in Pakistan to play a prank on the locals, you’d be guaranteed a swift bombing by a drone. Or you can just, you know, play with this safely in your backyard like a normal person.

Well… a normal person with lots of disposable income because the RPG7 is going for ¥28,350 (~$361 USD). That’s one expensive toy.

Incidentally if any of our Japanese speaking readers wants to help us out and dig some details from the links below, that’d be pretty cool.

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Futae Compass Eyelid Brush Gives You Two Eyelids, Seems Like It Might Run Into Some Issues

By David Ponce on 04/25/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

In several asian cultures, a double eyelid is desirable. In Japan this is called “Futae” and is an eyelid that more closely resembles Caucasian eyes, rather than the more-common-among-Asians single eyelid. There’s a few ways to achieve this look, with some resorting the the rather serious East Asian Blepharoplasty, a cosmetic procedure meant to surgically create the missing fold. Others simply draw it on, and the Futae Compass Eyelid Brush is meant to help in this endeavour. Place one end of the tool right on your cheek and a small sponge-like wheel on the other end will create a perfect line right across your lid. Sounds great in principle. We’d like to think that not every person of Asian descent has a perfectly semi-circular lid, nor an eye of the same size. But hey, for $63 you can order the thing and see if it works for you.

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Necomimi Cat Ears Supposedly Controlled Via Thought [Updated]

By David Ponce on 04/24/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

Alright… so, the very Japanese product Necomimi is a pair of furry cat ears that are attached to a NeuroSky “mind-reading” headset. It allegedly detects your mood, and reflects it through the ears. Concentrating? They perk up. Sad? They, uh, droop. There’s a total of four different moods it can display. It’s weird if it works, and it’s just sad if it doesn’t. There’s no winning.

It looks really sketchy, and makes for a very expensive design statement at best. How expensive? Try a cool $195.

Updates: The company has contacted us to let us know of a few corrections that need to be made to the above article. For one, $195 is the importer’s price. The product hasn’t yet launched in the States, and when it does, it may be more or less. Likely less. However, these imported units may not work Stateside due to “conflicting Hz levels.” We’re not sure what that means, or whether it even makes sense. Likely, it’s just not been FCC certified, which means it could still work but might interfere with other electronics. Finally, “down” ears mean a relaxed state of mind, not one of sadness. If you watch their promotional video, on the product page, you’ll see why we thought what we did.

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Panasonic’s Neck Refre Massages Your Neck

By David Ponce on 03/13/12 • 1 Comment


By David Ponce

It’s been around for a couple of years, but we just found out about the Panasonic EW-NA11, or the Neck Refre as JapanTrendShop calls it. It’s Panasonic’s idea of a neck massager and it appears to work by stimulating the muscles in your neck to contract involuntarily, in a manner that’s supposed to be relaxing. It’s kind of like those pads you see on late night informercials promising you six-pack abs with no effort. Except Panasonic’s gone ahead and registered this as a “medical” device. Well, what do we know? Some reviews online have given it a positive spin and at $87, there are worse ways to try and get rid of a stiff neck.

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A Giga Pudding Is A Lot Of Pudding

By Evan Ackerman on 02/15/10 • 5 Comments


By Evan Ackerman

Giga Pudding comes in vanilla, chocolate, or strawberry, and all you have to do is add boiling water and refrigerate. The video, however, is a bit misleading since the “giga” prefix means “billion” and the pudding in the ad is nowhere near large enough. Must be some kind of demo thing. So let’s see: if one pudding equals one of those Jello snack cups, which seems entirely reasonable, a Giga Pudding would end up weighing about 125,000 tons.

This is a lot of pudding.

I would like to attempt to explain to you just how much pudding a Giga Pudding is through a useless (but entertaining!) thought experiment.

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