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Infomercial for Takara Tomy Arts’s Beer Hour foam makers. Hour is pronounced similarly to Japanese word for bubble/foam, a play of words for the product names…
The Japanese company is primarily a toy-gadget maker. Many of its products are made for entertainment instead of genuine usability. It can be brilliant at times, just that it’s not something people would use often after the hype.
Japanese commercial for Giga Pudding, a product by Takara Tomy [Jp]. The video went viral and was turned into an internet meme in 2010, puddi puddi…
Takara Tomy and Sanyo Electric held a press conference on July 20 to introduce Tomy’s bipedal humanoid robot, the i-SOBOT, which has already been certified as “the smallest humanoid robot in production” by Guinness World Records…
The 165mm-high robot is capable of recognising voice commands, and can ‘speak’ & respond to hundreds of words and phrases. It can also perform pre programmed actions, has over 90 types of sound effect and able to play five songs.
i-SOBOT’s retail price is about ¥31,290 (~USD260) apiece. It’s expected to go on sale in the US and Japan this October, and in Europe in early 2008.
Yein Jee is a 32-year-old Malaysian traveller, food lover & self proclaimed entrepreneur. YeinJee's Asian Journal is about Asian culture, … [more]
