Designer Jo Nagasaka (Schemata Architects) has made the kind of seats that we definitely want to have in the Tokyo Kinky office. "Shibari" is a series of black and white foam seats inspired by the classic art of Japanese rope bondage. Nagasaka is showing his creations at this year's Milano Salone. Note the rope keeping the bulging seat in shape. Design-wise, it's a nice contrast of smooth curving rubber and sharp jagged lines. There seem to be four seats, each slightly different and in two colors. The foam seats are covered in rubber coating, which is of course not ...

Keitai (cellphone) straps are HUGE here, almost everyone has some kind of cute thing dangling from their handset. Kinbaku (緊縛) -- traditional Japanese bondage -- is a bit more underground, but there's no reason why mainstream can't meet subculture for some fun. And that's what the makers of Kinbaku Strap think too! These are decorative phone straps for your cellphone in the guise of traditional Japanese bondage. As you can see from some of the range above, you get a naughty-looking figurine tightly bound in the customary way. Attach it to your keitai and you can advertise your ...