Even a 2D anime character has feelings, you know.
Otaku love to decorate their hug pillow (dakimakura) with an anime character cover. Their companion is theirs to squeeze and talk to at night.
But Rina Makuraba, developed by Koichi Uchimura, takes things to another level.
She is a hug pillow that responds to your touch verbally. Just stroke her to elicit a "conversation".
She has a real personality and will even get cross with you if you get too touchy-feely. As we know, a cute girl getting angry at you is a fetish in Japan.
The system is called Itaspo ...
After its ridiculously creepy Summer Lesson demo for Project Morpheus met an avalanche of criticism both domestically and overseas, Sony has pulled the plug on the demo exhibit that was set to debut at Tokyo Game Show later this month.
The cancellation was announced today (September 12th), over a week after the Playstation 4 Project Morpheus HMD demo went public, meeting an instant tidal wave of disbelief and disgust.
Summer Lesson was supposed to be the calling card for Sony's new HMD system. Announced on September 1st, it quickly raised eyebrows when it emerged the demo was about ...
Relax. The Japanese economy has been saved. Engineers are here to rescue industry from the doldrums and produce the next step forward like the Walkman or the Hybrid car all those years ago.
Young engineers like this one.
Smart boffin Ryuto Soma joins a long line of other tech-savvy hentai geeks in Japan who use their technological skills for reasons of a masturbatory nature.
We've already had the Novint Falcon headset and Tenga combo and even a virtual sex system courtesy of the University of Tsukuba.
Ryuto Soma has come along and combined the Oculus Rift with a pair of ...
Sony has bizarrely chosen to show off its virtual reality headset Project Morpheus with this creepy demo Summer Lesson, to be exhibited at Tokyo Game Show later this month.
Sony, perhaps with an eye on its dismal sales of late, seems to want to attract the otaku dollar, since the demo, in contrast to previous ones that involved such exciting scenarios as a shark cage, is about leering at a loosely-dressed schoolgirl as she hangs around at home.
Here's the demo, though you'll have to wait until TGS to test it out.
Directed and produced by Katsuhiro ("Tekken") Harada -- who ...
As everyone knows, Japan is the world of technology.
Sometimes that engineering gets applies to home electronics, sometimes to automobiles, sometimes to nuclear reactors. And sometimes to sex toys.
And the result is you get the sex machine.
The pioneer was the Hitachi Magic Wand back in the 1970's, one of many electronic massagers that swiftly found extra unofficial uses. There have been a whole line of "wands" since, not least the Fairy.
But it's a few years ago when the genre really evolved.
The Rends A10 Cyclone has long been the most sophisticated and satisfactory sex ...
Forget Cornelius, Noise and all that. It seems that Japan's reputation in the world of electronic dance consists of little more than the country that has both technology and horny people.
To be fair, it is not wholly wrong. This is the nation of the Shiri robotic ass and the Yukirin AKB48 android.
And clearly Basement Jaxx like this side of things since for their music for "Never Say Never ft. ETML" they featured it almost exclusively.
Set in some distant future where dance has been banned or "72% people have stopped partaking" in dancing -- again, is this a reference to Japan? ...
Will this finally take the crown for AKB48 Fan of the Century?
As reported by our friends at JapanTrends.com, one admirer of Yuki Kashiwagi has succeeded in making a working android of her, the Yukirin Robot.
AKB48 fans aren't known for their subtlety or restraint. From purchasing up crazy amounts of CDs and merchandise to attacking the objects of their desire at handshaking events, AKB48 is a group that inspires all manner of extreme response from its fans.
But this is something we haven't personally seen before, though it is at least technically impressive.
It ...
Virtual sex. Cyber sex. Hi-tech sex toys.
Are SIMS and virtual idols and USB-powered sex toys the future -- or just an overrated, convoluted way of getting off? Well, the jury's still out.
We're going to go out on a limb and say that these types of toys will never replace the real thing. You still can't beat the sensation of real skin on your hands.
But here's the rub. In many ways, the aim is not to replace -- it's to provide a whole different experience altogether.
With the USB Onacon Sex Simulator 3D Mayu Watanabe, from the makers of the 3D Custom Girl USB Onacon and Custom Maid Ju-C ...
Now here's a technological innovation to get excited about.
Team Ressentiment, an engineering group, has had some fun with the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset.
How? Well, by combining it Japan's most famous sex toys, Tenga!
The whole get-up is called the Novint Falcon.
The user tries on the headset and then puts his you-know-what where it counts -- inside a Tenga onacup.
Oh, and there's a screen, which would respond to his gyrations. Meanwhile the guy is wearing the headset so can be seeing and hearing all kinds of kinky stuff.
In his eyes and head he is fucking ...
Here is the otaku hug pillow for the new generation.
A smartphone that is the size of a bed.
That's right, you can sleep on this phone, run on it, even live on it.
But otaku will be interested in how it can revolutionize the hug pillow.
Take the Soine App 4.1, which allows you to snuggle up (soine) to a life-size 2D anime character.
Before you jump to any conclusions about "Japanese" engineers, the development team was actually led by a white ...
