Created in part by Tosa-san of Maywa Denki (and last week’s Bacarobo competition) and Yanasawa-san of Kayak, Yurex is designed to help you “Visualize, Monitor, and Control your own Creative Beat”. In layman’s terms, this makes it a strap-on sensor for your binbo yusuri (leg shakes). Translated literally, it means “poor man’s shakes” which, if true, makes me penniless.
It won’t be available until next year, but the concept seems quite interesting at first glance. Two silver balls on the Yurex device count your leg shakes and data (number, timing , frequency), which you then upload to your online profile with a USB cable. This lets you track your high points of creativity in your day, so there much be some correlation between shaking and productivity/creativity.
Or not. We hadn’t given it much thought until now, but it does seems that high leg shaking comes with productive sessions, not with the lazy times. It should be interesting to see how the information actually contains value, if it does at all.
Below are videos from the group, as well as some Blog Parts that sum up the device perfectly while making this website shake like a fiend.
Michael is the Editor of JapanTrends.com and Director of the 
I’m not a leg-shaker myself, but I think there’s truth in the shaking helping creativity. Science shows that any repetitive deep muscle activation helps us get calm and focus. That’s why they sometimes give chewing gum to hyperactive kids, and why people chew on pens while thinking….
Never thought about timing my creative work to my muscle rhythms? Question is which is the cause and which is the effect? Do you time your thinking to the muscle rhythm, or do the shakes come at episodes when the brain trying to think ?