If there is one thing I hate, it’s trying to get the last drop of toothpaste out of the tube. Especially in winter. Well as for most things in life the Japanese have found a small, colorful, and ultimately cute solution to the problem of tube toothpaste. More »

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What do you buy a geek who already has every cool gadget? How about a $3,300 wireless programmable robot, care of Fujisoft. More »

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What do you do when you’re unable to hear a fire alarm when sleeping? Get one to spray you with wasabi.

Japanese people invent the best stuff. This fire alarm is for the deaf or hard of hearing. It more or less works exactly like a traditional fire alarm, except that it sprays wasabi up to 50 feet away (which is about 30 more feet than the average Japanese home needs). It’s now on sale for $560. More »

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From Girlybubble: I feel like it’s slowly becoming my duty to inform people of the cute things they shouldn’t be eating because some sort of poisoning might result. Take Japan’s latest Docomo Q-pot Melting Chocolate phone. If the Docomo Q-pot phones had (cute chocolate) feet, it’d kick the LG Chocolate in the ass. It literally looks like a bar of chocolate! Although Q-pot is best known for its food-inspired accessories, you can’t actually eat them — the human digestive system isn’t capable of digesting. More »

From Ningin: Do you like music and also happen to have a very unhealthy Hello Kitty fetish? If so, then you may want to drop $90 on this worthless piece of Hello Kitty gadget crap. Oh yes, I did go there. More »