Category: COOL PRODUCTS

When Sharp first released its Cocorobo, the world was pretty impressed. Here was a low-cost robotic vacuum cleaner that could respond to its owner's commands and be controlled by Android and iPhone ...

Scuba divers ordinarily use hand signals to communicate underwater but thanks to Casio Yamagata's Logosease, now they can talk to each other almost as if they are walking on dry ground. All you need ...

It's hard to believe that Sanrio's most successful creation and Japan's most famous cat is 40 years old! It's true, Hello Kitty turns 40 this year and to celebrate Sanrio is teaming with Bandai to ...

Projection mapping has really taken off in Japan. Recently we have seen Tokyo Station being transformed in a video spectacle, as well as the Yokohama Odyssey event at a historical dockyard, and ...

The Koppu no Fuchiko ("Fuchiko on the edge of the cup") by Kitan Club and Katsuki Tanaka was first released in 2012 as a Gashapon capsule toy. In a nutshell, it's a series of cute figurines of an ...

Spring is not a fun time to be in Japan if you suffer from hay fever, which is normally a summer phenomenon in other countries. Due to a forestation boom after the war, Japan saw a surge in the ...

Ligna, a company which operates a portal site of nightclubs and their employees across Japan, has released Club Diary, a 2014 planner that is specifically designed for nightclub hostesses. If ...

Just into our online store, Takara Tomy and Sanrio have got together to give us an amazingly kawaii combo of Licca-chan and Hello Kitty. There are two versions in this "Daisuki" (Love it!) series. ...

The original Oppo Dog Muzzle Quack created a HUGE stir when it was released a while back. Now our online store has got the follow-up, the Oppo Dog Muzzle Quack Closed. As the name suggests, it has ...

There are all kinds of ways to cure stress. A nice cold beer. An hour in the driving range. Going postal. But here's a way we never heard of before and trust Thanko to be the ones to come up with ...

We have long ago run out of those "standard" Japanese gifts that we can get away with sending out relatives back home. You know the ones, right? Green tea. Chopsticks. Sake cups. And so on. What ...

As the name tells itself, LowCarbonLife.net provides yet another possible solution for saving the earth. Online they have a variety of furniture on sale, but it's neither the design nor the ...

JapanTrendShop.com is celebrating Thanksgiving in the best way possible: With a massive 10% OFF SALE for Black Friday & Cyber Monday. Everything is discounted! The Cyber Monday sale lasts until ...

Doppelganger might just be the most interesting outdoor wear brand in Japan. First they rocked our world with the Doppelganger Outdoors Wearable Sleeping Bag, an all-in-one jacket coat outer wear ...

Cement is one of those much-aligned materials. We rail against concrete buildings, slabs, roads and the like, but take an architect like Tadao Ando and he will show you what can be done with concrete ...