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All You Need is Love from Talking, Romantic 'Handsome Men' Piggy Bank
Posted by Gizmodo US Edition at 9:45 PM on June 20, 2008
Things'd have to be pretty desperate in your love life if you needed one of these Ikemenbank, or "handsome men banks" from Bandai. For each 500 yen coin you drop in the heart-shaped gadget, you're rewarded with the next step of a virtual love affair with a Tamagotchi-like digital chap inside. He speaks to you with emotionally supportive phrases, but needs constant attention. Not dropping a coin in for five days results in him leaving you, with nothing but a digital love letter to remind you of his pixels. Fill it up with 100 coins, however, and you get the romantic conclusion—it can be happy or sad—but I'm not clear exactly how pornographic it would be... Anyhow, if you're lovelorn, and in Japan it will be out for around US$46 in September. [Reuters]
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Dook_In_The_Urinal
Posted 9:52 PM 20/6/08
That chic is WAY to happy about putting money into a plastic heart.
Dook_In_The_Urinal
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 11:39 PM 20/6/08
If he leaves, does he take the money with him?
92BuickLeSabre
WD40
Posted 12:51 AM 21/6/08
I seriously hope it's bigger than that, because if it's not then why get a piggy bank that costs more money than it can hold?
WD40
gadgetplay
Posted 12:25 AM 21/6/08
$500 is a lot to pay for a "happy ending." Girls usually don't have to pay at all. With money, anyway.
gadgetplay
Git Em SteveDave has a crush on the Swedes
Posted 12:55 AM 21/6/08
Is there a female version? B/c with this, when the Tamichicki leaves me for a blind guy, I'll at least get my money back.
Git Em SteveDave has a crush on the Swedes
Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!
Posted 2:55 AM 21/6/08
@Dook_In_The_Urinal: As soon as I saw the picture, I could only hear "DaaaaaHahahahaha"
Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!
Channing
Posted 3:15 AM 21/6/08
THAT'S what I need to do to get a girl. Anytime she buys me something I'll say/do something romantic.
Channing
twreckx
Posted 4:22 PM 21/6/08
The manic gleam in her eyes means he must be doing something right...
twreckx
wolfenstein-3d is sticking to his 4GB iphone1.0
Posted 1:45 PM 23/6/08
@92BuickLeSabre: she gets all the money, and the kids. Then you're stuck with child support
wolfenstein-3d is sticking to his 4GB iphone1.0