This awesome Toyota Prius is wheelchair-friendly. All you need to do is press a button to keep the wheelchair away!

The top of the Toyota looks bulky and weird. On the other hand the device is pretty funky, though I would prefer putting the wheelchair in the boot myself. Lol
Source: Home Care & Rehabilitation Exhibition held earlier this week in Tokyo via Japan Probe

And the construction of giant robots is not going to stop at the 1/1 Scale Gundam. Gigantor is completed now!

What’s next? I like the fact that these robots are coming to life. I don’t think we will ever have large scale robots on display (In Singapore) XD.
Source: Japan Probe

Cellphones are essentially something you can’t live without. Just last week, Docomo announced that it is producing a mobile phone made with surplus wood of trees. How awesome and strange is that?! XD

The authentic cypress wood body of the prototype, which is named TOUCH WOOD, features excellent durability and resistance to water, insects and mildew thanks to special three-dimensional compression molding developed by Olympus Corporation. Conventional natural wood is not suitable for use as mobile phone bodies because they tend to wear out quickly.
Each TOUCH WOOD handset will have their …

Another World Record Video, previously I posted up the World’s Fastest Clapper on the Japanese TV Show. Today, we have Darren “Professor Splash” Taylor who is back again in Japan to break his old record – jumping from a height of 10.70 meters (35 feet) into 30 centimeters (12 inches) of water into a kiddy pool. This time, he will be attempting to break his old record with a 10.83 meter jump!

My only reaction after watching the video clip is. OMG. How was he able to survive?! The bruises on …

How fast can you clap? Can you do it like Kent French who managed to clap 721 times in a minute?

And here is Kent French, appearing in a Japanese TV Show.

I tried to copy the way he clapped, but my sweaty palms end up slipping over each other, with no sound XD.
Source: Japan Probe

In this arcade game, it’s all about the rage. Japanese arcade game Cho Chabudai Gaeshi is a score attack game that lets players pound a soft table for combos and then upend it for the finishing move.

Different settings available in the game: host club, wedding, office or a Japanese living room.
So for example, in the living room stage, players bang on the table as their family complains more and more and finally flips over the table. In Japanese, people often talk about flipping over a table in anger — “chabudai …

As we probably heard of mega-sized food items in Japan, and since not everyone wants to gorge themselves with tons of food, Fast Food Chains are offering mega-downsized food items!

The above clip discusses how Mos Burger recently cut the size and price of its hamburgers and saw a 30% increase in sales. Matsuya also started offering smaller gyudon bowls and has seen a nearly 30% increase in sales, mostly from female customers. Sukiya has noticed the success of their rival and has also added a miniature gyudon bowl to its …

Would you like a ride to Narita Airport?

Now it’s possible with a Helicopter ride, or the new Narita Express Train! Fuji TV compares the two different rides as seen in the video below:

The helicopter flight takes 30 minutes and has nice leather seats with interior decoration by Hermes. A one-way ticket costs 75,000 yen (but a special launch price of 57,000 yen will be in effect until the end of this year).
The new Narita Express NEX E259 trains begin service on October 1st. The trip between Tokyo and the airport …

In Japan, custom cars are awesome! Take a look at the YouTube video embedded below..

It makes the customized cars in Singapore looks like crap. Wait I don’t think any Singaporean will really go all the trouble just to customize their cars! I seldom see cars with TVs installed. Do you see any type of “customized” cars in your country?
Oh and I love the Batman Van:
Batman van, a rolling tribute to the superhero that cost 25 million yen ($280,000), took 13 years to complete, and earned the owner a divorce.
Source: PinkTentacle …