Every year lots of wacky and sometimes awesome tech gets showcased at CEATEC, the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies, at Makuhari Messe.
This year we had laundry-folding robots, among other projects.
ROHM Semiconductor and Techmac presented the Tokimeki Sensor, which can apparently identify the exact moment someone falls in love.
Optical sensors are able to pinpoint the way you respond to someone to show that moment when you apparently change inside and think, THIS is the one for me.
Well, that sounds more like it means the spark of attraction than anything, but ...
Let this be a warning to all aspiring adult entrepreneurs out there.
The manager of an Osaka restaurant has been arrested for making and selling pornographic DVDs from an apartment.
Shoji Matsumoto (46) sold 46 DVDs to a Saitama man in his forties for ¥7,000 ($58) in July. Matsumoto started a website to sell his DVDs, as well as renting a nearby apartment, where he stored around 70,000 types of adult videos!
When he got an order, he would press the video into DVD format and send it to the customer.
Matsumoto sold each DVD for ¥200, offering two free films if you spent over ...
da fuck, a project by French musician Marc Durand, has created an album featuring only sounds taken from the porn catalogue of AV star Mihane Yuuki (aka Mihane Yuki).
Literally "not one external sound" was used for the album 美羽ゆうきに、僕のすべての愛敬。 (All my love for Mihane Yuuki.).
Actually, it's not what you think. If you're expecting just screaming girls and squirting sounds, think again. It's much more, well, melodic and interesting than that. It's actually quite thought-provoking to listen to, since you try to imagine what the original context was for ...
We know the most popular Japanese porn stars in Korea. But what about regular actresses?
Well, the most popular Japanese actress in South Korea is actually not the major star you might think. It's probably Mina Fujii.
The 27-year-old cutie learned Korean and appears in lots of loca drama. She's a graduate from Keio University and was born in San Diego. While she has appeared a fair bit of Japanese TV and film, she is much more popular in Korea.
While we are sure linguistic ability and acting talent have an influence on this, we also think it's down to her frankly stunning looks, ...
We've long been talking about the apparent imminent demise of fake deai-kei ("encounter") websites, which promise liaisons with members of the opposite sex but seem mostly just to take your money.
There seem to be new cases of fake sites appearing in the news every few weeks. Surely, with such bad publicity, people will just stop signing up to the services soon?
Another example of the dangers has been revealed in the case of the Chiba company managing a members-only deai-kei site with men pretending to be women.
The site had 2.7 million members nationwide, of whom only one was ...
In the latest development in Japan's attempts to deal with the phenomenon of revenge porn, things have taken an unusual turn. We readily associate revenge porn with men -- but female partners can also be vengeful.
Japanese police have arrested a 25-year-old woman who attempted to exhort money from an ex-lover. She cut his clothes with scissors and took a nude picture of the man, demanding ¥2 million (about $17,000) in cash in exchange for not putting the images online.
Maki Oji, a company employee from Shinjuku, cut up the clothes and took the nude photos of the man from September 30th ...
Evangelion and Rei Ayanami is one the pinnacles of otaku fantasy.
So anything involving lingerie maker Peach John and Evangelion is surely going to get some juices flowing, especially when the model is haafu Elaiza Ikeda.
Behold: the Peach John Evangelion Eva lingerie.
There are five colors available for the Peach John Evangelion Eva bra sets, plus three colors for the Lance of Longinus bra, and numerous other items like nighties and Pen-Pen pajamas.
The items can be reserved from October 5th. Like previous Sailor Moon Bandai-Peach John collaboration (memorably ...
So apparently someone has figured out how unlock the security of your phone -- using recognition of your butthole.
Go Hatori already proved that it was possible to unlock your iPhone with your nipple.
But now he was gone one step further -- or backwards, if you like.
For reasons surely unfathomable to the majority of people, he set out to make his iPhone unlock through recognizing the dimensions of his anus.
He succeeded.
We love buttholes. We love phones.
But together? Beyond the obvious question of hygiene, we're not sure if this is practical. What do you do ...
After the recent court ruling against the underage idol who "broke" her contract and had a relationship, and the ruling in favor of the hostess who had a long-running affair with a client, there have been some interesting legal developments in Japan of late.
Now a woman who refused to take part in a porn shoot and was sued for ¥24 million (over $200,000) for breach of contract by the production company has won her case.
The court in Tokyo ruled that the "nature of the work is one that you cannot force someone to do it against their will".
The judge threw out the production ...
Nippon.com, normally a fairly austere and academic online publication, has published an article by sociologist Suzumi Suzuki, in which she discusses her fieldwork about adult video and role play in the porn world.
Suzuki starts out with a very positive view of her subject matter:
AV actresses are surprisingly articulate when asked to talk about themselves. In the videos by which they make a living, as well as in magazines and other media, they calmly field personal questions of all kinds and narrate their personal stories smoothly and eloquently.
To a large extent, this is a skill they ...
