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Gadgets
A Gadget To Tell You Your Skin Ain’t Great
5:00AM Adam Frucci | Bandai’s Skin Expert is a device that you hold up to your face and it tells you how healthy your skin is. Finally, a gadget to make me feel bad about my appearance automatically! Thanks Japan! [Hobby Blog via Engadget]
Games
11:30AM Adrian Covert | Set to be bundled with the Easy Piano instructive game for the Nintendo DS is this Piano/Keyboard controller, which lets you go from punishing ears on a full-size piano, to punishing ears on your handheld. More »
Nintendo DS Piano Attachment Now Lets You ‘Hone’ Your ‘Musical Chops’
11:30AM Adrian Covert | Set to be bundled with the Easy Piano instructive game for the Nintendo DS is this Piano/Keyboard controller, which lets you go from punishing ears on a full-size piano, to punishing ears on your handheld. More »
Computers
Bandai RilakKuma Finally Achieves Maximum Netbook Adorability
3:45PM Dan Nosowitz | It can be hard to tell the legions of identical netbooks apart, but this Bandai RilakKuma will never have that problem, because it’s the cutest Atom-based piece of hardware we’ve ever seen.
Toys
Yakiniku Game Serves Guests With Fake Korean BBQ
2:20AM Sean Fallon | Yakiniku or Korean BBQ restaurants are extremely popular in Japan, which is why Bandai has released a game that simulates the experience at home—minus the distractions of flavour, chewing and hunger satisfaction of course. More »
Gadgets
Alton Brown Would Not Approve Of The Bandai Gyoza Maker
2:45PM Dan Nosowitz | Though it looks a lot like a larger version of those little cigarette rollers, this gadget is actually used to form perfect stuffed Japanese gyozas. We like it, but Alton Brown would never approve of such a single-function device. More »
Gadgets
Pedometer Makes You A Character In A Samurai Storyline
7:40AM Sean Fallon | Bandai is taking a new approach in the herculean task that is enticing nerds to exercise. This pedometer/calorie counter casts you as a 16th century Samurai hell-bent on controlling Japan. More »
Toys
Bandai’s Somen-Making Noodleslide Is the Most Fun You Could Possibly Have With Food
10:30AM Adrian Covert | I like to imagine this Bandai Noodle-maker/slide helped turn this family from dysfunctional and unhappy, to loving and close-knit. Do you see how much fun they’re having watching their dinner fall 18-inches in dramatic fashion? More »
Toys
Mugen Beer Can Opens Again and Again and Again
11:54PM Mark Wilson | Usually to meet my top popping OCD, I plow through a 24-pack or two in a single night. But it’s an addiction. More »
Toys
Bandai’s Aqua Dance Water Toy Hypnotises Using Nanotechnology
5:00AM Sean Fallon | Bandai’s Aqua Dance water toy utilises some sort of nanotech coating to send endless balls…of water cascading through a maze. I feel the urge to pee just thinking about it. More »
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