Category — Gadgets

For all you lazy devotee Mahjong players out there - an automatic Mahjong table! It automatically shuffles and builds walls for you.

It features:

1) High tech chipset with self track-clearer
2) Noiseless and durable
3) Environmentally friendly
4) Hi-efficient
5) Shuffles quickly and resists wetness
6) Fully automatically
7) Can be use to shuffle and organize Mahjong Tiles.

It also looks like one of those table top retro arcade units.

More info

Via NotCot

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This “Shouting Vase” allows you to make as much noise as you like when you’re highly stressed. Like when your broadband fails due to your supplier’s incompetence. I needed this a couple of weeks ago.

The plastic device is basically a muffler for your yells, with internal baffles that suppress the sound you make. It’s available in Japan for around $48,

Via Gizmodo

Technorati Tags: gadgets, Japan, Shouting Vase, stress relief

This cell phone strap must surely join the list of useless stuff? I guess you’d have to be a devotee of fried rice, who also savours it fed by the spoonful to get this.

Not good when you’re hungry. This will just make you more aware of your hunger and you still can’t eat it.

Via TokyoMango

Technorati Tags: cell phone straps, cellphone charm, cuisine, fried rice, fried rice on a spoon, gadgets

This Japanese-lacquered Nintendo DS lite is just one of the items presented to the G8 ministers participating in June’s talks in Kyoto.

The other items included a scented perfume ball and manga-styled stickers for each of the participant to attach to their diplomatic tricycles.

Sounds like a good little package for the rest of us. Surely these foreign ministers don’t have the time?

Via Engadget

Technorati Tags: DS Lite, gadgets, Kyoto, Nintendo

With the iPhone 3G out this Friday 11th July, people will be flocking to get their Jesus phone. And you can’t have that without a Buddha phone!

Not sure how much the concept of the phone ties in with Buddhism, but the aesthetics incorporate religious symbols and Buddha himself on the back, along with a Buddhist start up screen and ringtones.

Via PopGadget

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A Japanese company called Gen Corporation has created what people are calling the world’s smallest one-man helicopter, capable of flying 50km/h and weighs (by itself) 75kg.

Hopefully, at least in my lifetime, we’ll see common use of cool, single person transport units like this. Even better if they’re rocket packs! But if the UK’s health and safety organisations have anything to do with it, probably not.

Via Gizmodo

Technorati Tags: gadgets, Gen Corporation, Japan, one-man helicopter, world’s smallest one-man helicopter

What does Hello Kitty have in common with Antivirus software?

That isn’t a conceptual question, as I don’t think there is much in common, but at least it shows that given a strong brand, you can sell anything.

Or perhaps any old crap sells in China.

Via Gizmodo

Technorati Tags: antivirus software, China, gadgets, Hello Kitty

“Piling into a photo booth for a snapshot session is a staple of schoolgirl life.

“The ubiquitous purikura (print club) kiosks are equipped with fancy lighting and snazzy image-editing technology. They beat cell phone images by a mile and, priced at 400 yen per “play,” they’re a bargain.

“The downside: Printouts on stickers look janky and are not very shareable. Two new portrait machines, Recipe of Goddess 3 and R&B (Rich and Beauty), let teens download JPEGs directly onto their handsets via infrared as the decals are printing out.”

Via Wired.com

Technorati Tags: gadgets, Japan, Japanese school girls, mobile phone, purikura