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by jack_tripper 195 days ago
Damn, Japan used to be the home of cool quirky consumer gadgets in the 80s-90s, I used to dream of as a kid, but sadly no more, now it's China.

Today's consumer innovations I see coming out of Japan are like "hey, wanna buy a cheaply made nostalgia-bate plastic replica of a popular 1980's digital Casio metal watch, for more than the price of a bluetooth smartwatch?"

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This Toyota chair still does it for me:

https://youtu.be/VzD9bhUIaK4?si=7Tap5tXi5974dIVo

And fetish "little girl" stuff. That market is still active.