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bandai tuttuki bako: stick your finger in the hole

filed under: gadgets | strange and wonderful

This new interactive toy from Japan involves sticking your finger in a hole on the side of the box to interact with a virtual environment. Really. I’m not kidding.

Bandai’s new Tuttuki Bako handheld interactive plaything requires you to twiddle your finger around inside the orifice to play with a variety of virtual characters on an LCD screen on the front of the device…

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October 24th, 2008 10 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

talking heart mouse loves you, really.

filed under: gadgets | strange and wonderful

talking heart mouse

Are you a lonely geek who thinks your only companion is your computer? Is your closest friend merely a text link on twitter? That’s okay. Because now, your mouse can now provide you with daily affirmation that you are truly loved.

That’s right. Leave it to the wacky Japanese to come up with this heart-shaped USB computer mouse that does one thing, and one thing only…

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September 21st, 2008 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

whoops: sony posts pgr3 screenshot as gran turismo hd

filed under: just plain fun | video games

Sony GTA HD or PGR3

The faux pas of the day comes to us courtesy of master of all things Xbox, Major Nelson. Apparently, some junior web developer over at Sony mistakenly used a screenshot of the Xbox hit racing game, Project Gotham Racing 3 in an advertisement for Gran Turismo 4.

The ad was posted for a short time on Sony’s PSP Connect website, and has since been taken down…

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January 25th, 2007 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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