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Japanese gamer tired of tapping for loot boxes invents automatic tapper using a wiener

Dale Roll
Oct 11, 2018
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What an amazing low-budget, DIY mobile gamer tool!

Japan
(clever • cool • crazy • fate grand order • funny • video games • weird)

Nintendo goes retro and patents awesome smartphone case that looks exactly like a Game Boy

Koh Ruide
Oct 10, 2018

Gaming technology may have advanced tremendously over the past few decades, but Nintendo’s love for simpler times is still evident.

Japan, USA
(cool • Game Boy • nintendo • Smartphones • technology • video games)

Purify the hate of Internet jeers with Japanese temple’s first online ceremonial fire

Katy Kelly
Oct 9, 2018

Don’t worry if you can’t make it to your local temple! Now you can collect up all the online roasts you’ve received and cast them into this cyberfire.

Japan
(Buddhism • cool • culture • cyber bullying • emples • Niigata • online harassment • religion • society • weird)

Random generation of anime characters by sophisticated AI programs is now so good, it’s unreal

Koh Ruide
Oct 8, 2018

Never would we have thought that characters designed by AI programs jumped from rudimentary to ultra-advanced in the space of three years.

Japan
(AI • anime characters • artificial intelligence • cool • cute • evolution • illustration)

Japanese smart mirror with sexy anime voice will feed women compliments, read their moods【Video】

Casey Baseel
Oct 6, 2018

Device scans your face for signs of blemishes to your beauty or trouble in your heart, and absolutely loves flirting with you.

Japan
(anime • beauty • cool • mirror • technology • video • voice actors • weird • Yuki Kaji)

A visit to the largest Daiso 100 yen shop in all Japan【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Oct 5, 2018

What wonders await in this massive seven-floor Daiso just outside Tokyo? Come with us and find out!

Japan
(100 yen shops • 100-yen stores • awesome • COK • cool • crazy • Daiso • shopping • SNOJ)

Japanese middle schoolers build an awesome real/VR roller coaster for their class project【Video】

Casey Baseel
Oct 4, 2018

Combines modern technology and old-school carpentry in a way that puts ordinary science fair projects to shame.

Japan
(awesome • COK • cool • culture festival • kids • roller coasters • schools • technology • video • virtual reality • VR)

DBZ in the NFL: Professional football players celebrate touchdown with Dragon Ball dance【Video】

Casey Baseel
Oct 4, 2018

Football is a team sport, so what better way to celebrate a score than with an anime technique to combine two heroes?

Japan, USA
(anime • cool • Dragon Ball • football • funny • sports • video)

Anime-style magic circle cordless charging pad is the coolest way ever to charge a phone【Video】

Casey Baseel
Oct 4, 2018

Japanese company’s gadget for summoning life force for your devices is awesome…but maybe too awesome to be real.

Japan
(anime • cool • cordless charging • electronics • gadgets • interior • phones • Six Seconds Shop • technology • video)

This obviously Photoshopped photo from Japan totally isn’t Photoshopped【Video】

Casey Baseel
Oct 3, 2018

Who needs the magic of photo editing when you’ve got the power of taido?

Japan
(awesome • cool • funny • martial arts • Okinawa • Photoshop • taido • video)

With time and effort, a Japanese candy box becomes a ship sculpture worthy of its naval packaging

Katy Kelly
Oct 2, 2018

A Twitter user spent hours folding, cutting and painstakingly arranging strips of an Alfort chocolate biscuit box to create a stunning, seaworthy-seeming sculpture.

Japan
(awesome • candy • chocolate • cool • Harukiru • japanese snacks • Karabako Shokunin Harukiru • papercraft)

Head to Tokyo or Nagoya to make your own custom Pokémon jewelry from 87 cute designs

Katy Kelly
Oct 2, 2018

Jeweler U-Treasure is joining forces with all your favorite pocket monsters so that you can brand them into cool accessories – by hand! Read More