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		<title>Bandai Mirai Scope: the Digital Fortune Teller</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think of the latest contraption from Japan&#8217;s Bandai as a virtual soothsayer. The pocket-sized device uses a digital personality assessment, along with a dash hocus pocus and other less-than-scientific gibberish to predict your future.

The Mirai Scope starts out by asking its owner about fifty personal questions, which help to&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Think of the latest contraption from Japan&#8217;s Bandai as a virtual soothsayer. The pocket-sized device uses a digital personality assessment, along with a dash hocus pocus and other less-than-scientific gibberish to predict your future.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/mirai_scope.jpg" alt="mirai scope"  title="mirai scope photo" /></p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.asovision.com/mirai/">Mirai Scope</a> starts out by asking its owner about fifty personal questions, which help to assign you one of 236 unique personality types (you can try out the actual test <a href="http://www55.channel.or.jp/human_labo/">here</a>, if you&#8217;re up for a little Japanese). Once you&#8217;ve been successfully pigeonholed by the Mirai, your profile is combined with some &#8220;biorhythm&#8221; BS to help triangulate your course in life.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/mirai_scope_avatars.jpg" alt="mirai scope avatars"  title="mirai scope avatars photo" /></p>
<p>You&#8217;ll be able to ask for predictions on specific topics such as health, wealth, employment and your love life. There&#8217;s even some sort of weird infrared profile-sharing feature which lets you predict the future for you and your significant other if you care to beam your information through the air.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s likely that the Mirai Scope will remain a Japanese exclusive, but if you&#8217;re willing to go the extra mile to fly one in, you should be able to come late March for ¥2,980 (appx. $28 USD).</p>
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