Maid Cafes? Absolutely Passe. Mother Cafes? Now you are talking. Japanese men who love to be mothered can now go to maid cafes where the waitresses are dressed up in maid clothes with maternal behaviour. The women who work here are a bit older then the ones at the maid cafes (they need to be since they are supposed to mother you) and service includes hand-feeding anybody who orders a slice of cake and wants to feel like a kid all over again.

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Even for a Kitty critic like me, its hard to say that Hello Kitty doesnt look cute trying on my glasses. Or yours for that matter.

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Its kittys way of getting you better when you are stuck with a sore back. It powers itself from 2 AA batteries. The accompanying images show the variety of manners in which it may be used.

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Its something that the Japanese have been doing for some time now. Pushing in GPS devices into gadgets that kids carry and use. Why there was even a school bag with a GPs device embedded in it. Child safety concerns are shared by parents around the world and not just in Japan.

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No kidding! As a boy, I loved to watch my uncle make pebbles bounce on the lake 7 times before it finally sunk. I practised a lot, but the best I got to was 4-5 bounces. I guess it takes some sort of talent to do that. But with the Waboba even a complete nincompoop should be able to bounce the ball on water.

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No its not Zombie power, but something that sounds even more disgusting. However when it comes to saving the planet, one cant be too picky. A crematorium in Sweden has decided to use the heat from the cremations to warm the buildings during winter.

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I dont which better way to put it, but this is the toilet seat that might just make the difference between you sticking to your new year resolution of dieting and ignoring it in a fortnight. This toilet seat automatically measures your weight when you sit on it. Since that means about once every couple of hours if you are a female , then you can understand where I was going with this earlier.

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In order to make it blazingly clear how the Matrix styled takeover of the world shall take place, the US Army has called in experts to create virtual parents for kids of soldiers. In order to lessen the impact of seperation from a real parent, the virtual parent is supposed to be intelligent enough to fool a young child into believing that he / she had a proper conversation with their parent.

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