It is sometimes tempting to discard music idols as cookie-cutter enterprises whose ranks are filled with identical-looking young women.
But at least they are flesh and blood. The models of the future may well not be.
Digitally created models or even androids might be the faces of major commercial brands one day. After all, they don't age, nor is there the risk of your brand ambassador landing herself in hot water with a clumsily worded tweet or drugs arrest.
The cosmetics brand Kate has released a 30-second commercial with an innovative lineup of talent: two virtual models (imma and Ria) ...
Japan has a declining population. The government, in all its wisdom, has decided to do something about this.
Helping women maintain careers after giving birth? Fixing the toxic work culture that requires gruelingly long hours and male-dominated management?
That can wait. The government is hoping robots will fix things.
As recently reported in the mainstream media, the government plans to allocate a whopping ¥2 billion next year for giving out to local authorities that implement programs where residents find love -- assisted by artificial intelligence.
In fact, about half of the ...
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 ...
An update on the mega-selling Puni Ana onahole series, the Puni Ana-roid Sex Machine is a new adult toy that is not only an awesome electric male masturbator sleeve but also comes with an integrated voice feature to accentuate the penetration experience.
This "android" masturbator is programmed for one purpose only: servicing your manhood and giving you the best, and perhaps most futuristic, orgasm possible. Start up her systems at the push of a button and let the Puni Ana-roid take care the rest with its seven powerful piston patterns and seven vibration patterns. The controls interface are ...
Japan's top adult brand, Tenga, already amazed the Internet with its first Tenga Robo toy last year, inspired by the antics of creative netizens. Now it is back with a line of limited-edition collaboration items that are just as vibrant and fun as the first.
Combining the design of Tenga's Cup masturbation aids with robot characters, the toys measure 20 cm in height and are made in collaboration with characters created by the Go Nagai (Devilman, Cutey Honey, and Harenchi Gakuen).
Based on the 1970s anime/manga Mazinger Z, the black Mazinger Tenga Robo comes with a Jet Scrander ...
When our robot masters finally take over, we may simply be slightly annoying side projects that require too much electrical resources.
Take a glimpse into the future with this matchmaking service in Japan, which is using pairs of small robots to help couples hit it off.
The robots employed, as least in the promotional video, seem to be the RoBoHon miniature robots designed by Tomotaka Takahashi, here in a system developed by Cyber Agent and Sharp.
These "robotic cupids" sit on the table with the potential couple. Pre-loaded with profiles and information about their human counterparts, the ...
Tenga, as we often like to say, the Apple of the Japanese adult industry.
It makes the most attractive sex toys in the land and continues to innovate and surprise even more than ten years after its first releases revolutionized the market. Its latest product, the Tenga Spinner, is already proving to be a bit hit.
But did you know that Tenga also makes robots?
All right, we're twisting the truth here a little. The new Tenga Robo is not a real robot (nor a sex toy) but a figure toy that looks like a classic Tenga Onacup, which can transform into a robot character in the style of Gundam ...
Thank you, Japan. Perhaps no other country in the world would produce a pack of condoms quite like this.
Sure, Japanese condoms are famed for their quality and thinness -- particularly the Okamoto Zero One 0.01mm and Sagami 0.01 condoms. There are also funner condoms, such as the Rilakkuma Love-Love Hot Honey Flavor Condoms or these Gundam parody condoms.
Now along comes the Okamoto Danbo Condoms, which are based on the simple yet wildly popular character Danbo (aka Danboard).
The "cardboard robot" first appeared in Kiyohiko Azuma's manga Yotsuba&! but has now spawned its own ...
What is it about Tenga that seems to inspire Japanese people to make robots?
About a year ago a minor meme on the Japanese Twittersphere involved posting self-created visions of a mecha robot that could transform into a Tenga onacup.
That was apparently (and bizarrely) related to Valentine's Day. White Day (where the men give women gifts in Japan) saw a new meme, this time mecha robots inspired by the Iroha vibrator.
Now for 2016 along comes @ZMD11S, who hasn't simply drawn or planned a Tenga robot model: he (we are assuming he's male) has built one!
Sadly it's not an actual ...
We all like to put pen to paper and sketch out a sexy cyborg or two.
But some of us are lucky enough to have that fantasy become three-dimensional reality!
Cult adult illustrator Hajime Sorayama's erotic robot female has become a limited-edition actual model.
You can buy one of the 100 models from July 24th to August 31st at Nanzuka gallery in Shibuya.
Produced in association with Medicom, who make the Be@rbrick series, the models will be 300mm (12") tall.
This uber-fantasy gynoid item will set you back a cool ¥162,000 ($1,300) and you'll have to wait until late ...
