Poke your boss, crush a stickman with new Japanese toy

November 20th, 2008 Japan's toy giant Bandai employee demonstrates 'Tuttuki bako', or poking box

Japan's toy giant Bandai employee demonstrates "Tuttuki bako", or poking box, a palm-sized plastic box with a simple digital display on the front, a coin-size hole on the side and a motion sensor inside. When you stick your finger in the hole, a virtual finger appears on the screen for petting or even torturing the animal or stickman.

If the financial crisis makes you want to poke a finger in your boss's eye or unleash some high karate kicks in the office, a Japanese toymaker may have the -- virtual -- answer.

Content from AFP expires 1 month after original publication date. For more information about AFP, please visit www.afp.com .

Similar stories from PHYSorg:

New technology identifies warped fingerprints at warp speed

Oct 01, 2007 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0

Can virtual teachers plug the educational divide?

Feb 24, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Financial crisis increases suicides and homicides

Jul 08, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Scientists create hybrid system of human-machine interaction

Jun 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0

Catastrophic sea levels 'distinct possibility' this century: study

Apr 15, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (88) | 25

rank
1
2
3
4
5

3/5 after 2 votes

Move the slider to adjust rank threshold, so that you can hide some of the comments.

Display comments: newest first

Flakk - Nov 20, 2008
- Current rank
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- Rank: not rated yet
- rate
Ladies and gentelmen......the evolution of the glory hole!
- flag
bmcghie - Nov 23, 2008
- Current rank
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- Rank: not rated yet
- rate
Only out of Japan, eh? :) Trust those innovative japanese to have absolutely no qualms about pushing the limits of decency (and sanity?) in the mainstream marketplace. Ha!

What's next, a squeeze ball that can display the boss's picture on the surface?
- flag

Other News

Robo-bats with metal muscles may be next generation of remote control flyers

Electronics / Robotics

Jul 07, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (9) | 7

Tiny flying machines can be used for everything from indoor surveillance to exploring collapsed buildings, but simply making smaller versions of planes and helicopters doesn't work very well. Instead, researchers ...

Gadgets: Affordable, customized headphones that sound nice, too

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

20 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

You might think a customized set of headphones would cost an incredible amount of money, but that is not the case with iFrogz headphones.

A woman holds the new Amazon Kindle 2 at an unveiling event

Amazon lowers Kindle e-book reader price to $299

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

Jul 08, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 3

(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. has lowered the price of its Kindle electronic book reader by $60. It's now selling for $299, in an effort to attract more bookworms to the device.

Netbooks now being sold like cell phones

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

Jul 08, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

If you walked into the right RadioShack store last weekend, you could get an Acer Aspire "netbook" computer for free. The catch: You would have to sign a two-year contract for mobile Internet service from AT&T, at $60 a month ...

iPhone 3G S has slew of new features

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

Jul 08, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (8) | 1

If you've been thinking of buying an iPhone, the release of the iPhone 3G S makes it a lot easier to join Apple's telecom family. But if you already own an iPhone, deciding whether to buy this new model is ...