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July 28, 2010Maywa Denki’s fun musical toy, the Otamatone, has now got its own iPhone app!
Just like the regular toy there are …
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July 27, 2010Good news for designer t-shirt fans or anyone who knows an artist with potential.
SNOW mag is teaming up with graniph …
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July 26, 2010Horse-racing has a reputation for being a sport enjoyed by only, well, old(er) men, right?
No doubt with this stereotype in …
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July 22, 2010Slightly bizarrely-named manufacturer King Jim seem to specialize in making handy little devices. Remember the Relet, the e-money card reader …
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July 20, 2010Okay, this is definitely *NSFW* but we thought it was pretty innovative.
We saw over on TokyoKinky.com (NSFW) this post about …
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July 20, 2010Next week we’re heading over to our CScout NYC office and are keen to meet with potential collaborators for an …
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July 20, 2010Recently we were checking out some places for a client around town and we finally had a chance to go …
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July 16, 2010Top Toys List:
1. Choenbank robotic monkey money bank
2. ChouChou butterfly
3. Popcorn no Te grabber
4. Kinopuyo robotic mushroom
5. Ryo Ishikawa Digital …
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July 16, 2010At yesterday’s Tokyo Toy Show Takara Tomy demonstrated their great new cars, a sort-of combination of the previous Mario Kart …
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July 16, 2010Back in autumn last year we introduced one of Samuel Cockedey’s time-lapse videos.
Now he’s made a new one, floating point, …
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July 15, 2010There has been a cluster of these toys in Japan in the last few years: little moving cute creatures intended …
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July 15, 2010The Potechi no Te became quite a conversation topic earlier this year for being a rather silly tool for grabbing …
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July 15, 2010Japan is experiencing a massive Ryo Ishikawa craze at the moment. The young golfer is on seemingly every TV commercial …
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July 15, 2010***Editor’s note: We use the term “robotic” loosely, and in retrospect it would have been better to use the term …
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July 15, 2010Today we took our annual trip to the extravaganza that is the Tokyo Toy Show and one of the first …
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July 14, 2010Get ready this Saturday for AUDIO Tokyo, a major new marine electronic music festival. Featuring a host of DJs, both …
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July 13, 2010Last week we blogged about the summer bar in Ginza for Asahi Super Dry that lets you pour your own …
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July 12, 2010We all know that the Japanese like plastic models and that there is certainly a very special local culture surrounding …
