A research team at Gifu University has developed the My Girlfriend in Walk (sic), a robotic hand that the user can hold to replicate the experience of a romantic walk with a partner.
The artificial hand apparently even imitates the way a human appendage sweats and smells as well as feeling soft and warm.
Grip the hand and its built-in sensors detect the pressure of your grasp and will squeeze your hand back in reply. The hand can also work in tandem with the user's smartphone to recognize whose hand it is holding.
Despite investing unknown amounts of time and yen in the development, the ...
Picture the scene. You are a diehard AKB48 fan and you see that your favorite group is advertising tickets that let you go on date with the idol you love. So much better than just the handshaking sessions, right?
Unfortunately, it really was too good to be true.
The tickets for the upcoming AKB48 shows in Fukuoka this November that were officially advertised as "Date Ticket: Experience what it's like to be an AKB48 member's lover!?" have since been retracted.
Given that AKB48's members are banned from having boyfriends, it's thus little surprise that management won't actually let you ...
Popular, long-running British game show Countdown has attracted an unusual flurry of headlines and online responses by allowing a "pornographic" concept to win a round.
In the long-running TV show, contestants try to find the longest words from a random selection of letters within 30 seconds.
On Monday's episode, Marwan Riach managed to find "hentai" and beat out his opponent's "patty."
The resident judge in the "Dictionary Corner" confirmed the validity of Riach's somewhat sheepishly offered word: "Hentai is brilliant," she said in a widely shared clip.
Well, quite.
With its customary ...
It's hardly a secret that we love porn. Otherwise we wouldn't be very good at our jobs.
But we also know the value of discretion. We wouldn't, for example, wish the whole world to know about our viewing habits, not because we think there is anything wrong with them per se, but just because it's one of all kinds of personal information we wouldn't want to reveal.
It seems that not everyone is so circumspect.
This otaku was snapped, for instance, riding on the train. Not special about that. You can see people who obviously fall into the category of "otaku" in public all the time in Tokyo, ...
As recently shared by Kotaku, anime girl virtual reality massages in Japan are, as the name suggests, virtual and the actual reality is quite different to what the customers see in their headset.
He might well be experiencing a female anime character giving him plenty of TLC and charming looks, but the grim truth is that a guy is sitting in front and providing the physical side of the massage.
One such VR massage provider is Toranoana VR Relaxation, which plans to open in Akihabara, Tokyo.
This is not a rub-and-tug joint but instead you do get to enjoy a virtual reality ...
What's the good of being an illustrator if you can't put your skills to real use?
That seems to be the thinking behind a new illustration reference book, ...
Prospective college students are now sitting down in halls around Japan for the various exams that will allow them to enter universities. It's a stressful time, but fortunately there's plenty of strangeness to keep everyone amused.
Some otaku like to wear their favorite characters on their clothes for good luck. Some people cannot resist bringing their onahole to the exams to help relieve them of the stress, though we've never seen a masturbator toy used to store pencils before.
And at least one girl attended her tests in full Lolita fashion cosplay.
As shared by Nakanojorounin, we ...
A new Japanese online game by light novel publisher Dengeki Bunko lets you undress female anime and light novel characters with just a single click.
In fact, that's the whole point of Lightning Attack Barrage 2017, which features such characters as Kino from Kino's Journey, Asuna from Sword Art Online, and Zero from Grimoire of Zero.
In the click game, which launched in August, the player aims his or her cursor at the anime character from the Dengeki Bunko canon. With one push, the character is stripped of their attire in that area. You win by stripping the lady down to her ...
Japanese gachapon or gashapon capsule toy vending machines are a bottomless source of novelties, from handwritten love letters to Tenga eggs.
The latest adult surprise waiting in the capsules are omikuji, the paper strips that tell your fortune. These are normally purchased at a Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple in Japan, and offer varying degrees of fortune such as "great blessing" (dai-kichi) or "curse" (kyo). Any ones you don't like the look of, you can tie up and leave at the temple.
Courtesy of adult manga and dojinshi retailer Melon Books, Nyomikuji (literally, Woman's Body Fortune ...
Panchira up-skirt fetish fans got a lot for their money at Tokyo Game Show 2017.
The Gal Gun 2 booth had a vacuum device based on the Demon Sweeper, featured in the adult virtual reality game Gal Gun VR. This time, though, it was real and allowed you to see up the skirt of a girl!
The organizers roped in some poor booth companions to show off the attraction, which blew wind vertically upwards to lift a skirt. The wind was blown up from under a grating over a raised platform on which the unfortunate young lady lady was standing. Inspired by the Demon Sweeper weapon in Gal Gun VR, members ...
