Creepy, Creepy, Creepy. This Is Really Creepy

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This is why I prefer hands-free devices.

nseattlite on August 5, 2011 at 1:48 PM

Epic.

gloomy gus on August 5, 2011 at 1:49 PM

Only in Japan. Does that come with a handjob app?

Reg on August 5, 2011 at 1:53 PM

@1:

Wins Teh Internets for the week.

COMTE on August 5, 2011 at 1:54 PM

http://www.wtfjapanseriously.com/
I highly recommend "Face vs Beetles" about halfway down the page. It's pretty much exactly what it sounds like.

prompt on August 5, 2011 at 2:04 PM

Wm,
Remember those "lap dolls"? As I recall, they were pillow "models" where one could "lie" one's head in the "lap" of a female model. Made in Japan. Weird.

lark on August 5, 2011 at 2:12 PM

Whoops! Meant to say Kelly O.

lark on August 5, 2011 at 2:13 PM

"It's a smart phone."

"No, it's a sex toy!"

"No, it's a smart phone!"

"IT'S A SEX TOY, YOU COW!!"

Chris in Vancouver WA on August 5, 2011 at 2:17 PM

can you set iphones on vibrate?

just askin'

judybrowni on August 5, 2011 at 2:18 PM

This is weird and creepy, indeed. I thank the gods Americans aren't.

http://www.ifoce.com/index.php

Laurence Ballard on August 5, 2011 at 2:21 PM

'Xenophobia,' also known as a fear of foreigners and their culture, died Aug. 5th, in an article written by Kelly O.

"This product would be weird even if it came from America," commented Kelly O, "but it's fun to laugh at because it's from Japan."

'Xenophobia,' had been championed recently by both the Tea and Republican Parties. This swift assasination by a left-wing writer came as a bit of a surpries.

'Xenophobia,' will not be missed.

thedundieaward on August 5, 2011 at 2:38 PM

The other night I went to IKEA, right near me in Kent (well Renton technically since its on the other side of 180th) to get dinner and buy some chef's knives.

I usually bring home some food like herring, lingonberry jam and that great Swedish dry bread and couldn't not buy a dessert product called Cocosball. It's a kind of miniature Hostess Sno-Ball -- marshmallow in chocolate cake with coconut.

But the reason I bought it is because of SLOG. I just imagined someone from SLOG seeing this product and saying "Cocosball...Heh....heh, heh, heh".

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jnich63/428…

Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on August 5, 2011 at 2:49 PM

@11 - It's not that this is funny because it's Japanese. It's more that Japan is funny because they make things like this. Americans make truck nuts, the State of Texas, and electronic singing fish plaques; we are funny for making those things.

Care to write yourself an obituary for "relevant, interesting comments"?

MacCrocodile on August 5, 2011 at 2:50 PM

Not only can you download vibrator apps (some sold honestly, some sold as "massagers"), but if you have the Savage Love app on your iphone, it is already a vibrator.

invisigoth on August 5, 2011 at 3:06 PM

This is only weird because it has a phone on it. If it was just a severed hand, big whoop.

Fnarf on August 5, 2011 at 3:10 PM

@ 11 - Calm down. Xenophobia may be alive and well, but it is NOT when you look a something from a culture very different from our own and go, "Oooookaaaay" That's just puzzlement.

Chris in Vancouver WA on August 5, 2011 at 3:11 PM

I bet there was a televised contest in Japan to choose who would win the prestige of having her hand used as the model for this... this... iPhone hand and lipstick and keychain holder thing.

on August 5, 2011 at 3:49 PM

Please people. I'm honestly confused and a little scared by this. Just tell me it's one of those coy Japanese sex toy things and I'll calm right down.

bigg on August 5, 2011 at 3:57 PM

If you scroll way down there are some food-oriented variations. Which are less creepy. Mostly.

g on August 5, 2011 at 4:04 PM

Japan has some highly amusing cultural quirks. I wonder which of them is responsible for this um... Thing?

(Cue the Addams Family TV series opening credits music...)

Brooklyn Reader on August 5, 2011 at 4:12 PM

OMG, Japan, why, WHY? I need some serious brain bleach to get the creepy stains out.

BTW, I'm married to a Japanese citizen, so it's not like I'm unaccustomed to weirdness. This really takes the danish.

Stiny on August 5, 2011 at 6:14 PM

The makers know it's creepy; that's part of it's appeal. From the product description:

慣れれば可愛く見えてくる！でも、たまに恐い！！iPhone4専用どっきりいたずら手のカバー

If you can get used to it, you'll come to think it's cute! But, sometimes it's scary! The surprise trick cover only for iPhone4

ridia on August 5, 2011 at 8:06 PM

What other favorite body parts might they attach to a phone next?

camlux on August 5, 2011 at 10:57 PM

America the Slow.

Charles Maguro on August 6, 2011 at 8:37 AM

Talk to the hand!

Cynic Romantic on August 8, 2011 at 1:59 AM

"After you propose . . ."

You'll sever your fiancee's hand and glue it to your phone? This isn't a sex toy, it's like something out of Psycho.

the idiot formerly known as kk on August 8, 2011 at 3:49 PM

Creepy, Creepy, Creepy. This Is Really Creepy

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