Take a walk around the stores in the Akihabara district of Tokyo and you'll see not just the very latest audio, video and computer kit but also some examples of digital home technology that the western mind simply couldn't have ever conjured up.
But in contrast with many of the home-grown goodies we've seen there - such as carpet-mounted speakers, heated tables (to keep the diners warm, not the food) and IR-controlled toilet-seat-bidet combos* - a product that we recently spotted on Rare Mono Shop's Japanese internet store looks to have real appeal in the west.
The UK's heat wave may be over but how much would any of us have been willing to pay in recent weeks for a bum-cooler intended for use on office chairs and powered by USB? A lot more, we reckon, than the tax-inclusive 4,800 Yen (£22) that Rare Mono is asking for it.
Not convinced? Then check out Yahoo Babel Fish's translation of a couple of sections of the product page:
With this timewise desk
work becoming matter of concern, the bearing surface of the chair. When
directly it is sat down, sweating, there is a thing whose feeling is
bad don't you think?
The air outside is sucked from the fan, it is possible to maintain coolly by the fact that the wind is sent to the whole seat!! It is the little mechanism, but this is cool well enough, it is!! The countless hole to open the seat, because the wind keeps flowing from there, it has become the mechanism where the whole seat becomes cool.
The air outside is sucked from the fan, it is possible to maintain coolly by the fact that the wind is sent to the whole seat!! It is the little mechanism, but this is cool well enough, it is!! The countless hole to open the seat, because the wind keeps flowing from there, it has become the mechanism where the whole seat becomes cool.
You want one now, we're sure, so tell us how badly - and what other products would improve your digital life - over in this thread in the HEXUS.community.
* OK, recalcitrant grannies are the same the world over, but saying so would have spoilt the flow of the sentence.
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