Hizamakura available again

Posted on 22. Oct, 2007 @ 11:43 pm by in Crazy Consumers, Humor Views: 766

News just in!

That ridiculous “girlfriend-knee pillow” ひざまくら is available again from JLIST [affiliate link].

Their inventory is sporadic, so if you’re still looking for the perfect gag birthday gift for someone, get it while it’s hot. It’s a silky smooth pillow shaped like a ladies lap, so you can put your head down and get your ears cleaned like Japanese guys supposedly love to do. Only, this one doesn’t have a torso… Weirds me out just thinking about it.

Speaking of wacky Japanese goods… You probably saw this vending machine disguise in the New York Times today… If only JLIST had this! The knife proof school uniform mentioned in the article would handy too huh…

JapanProbe has great “coverage” of this urban camouflage.

Crazy consumers indeed.

- Harvey

[tags]Japan, gadgets, hizamakura, knee-pillow[/tags]

  • http://voodooserpent.deviantart.com JCD

    Last post you said I’d love this post, and you were totally right. The Captain I work with once told me about the time he and his squad hid inside of garbage bages to protect themselves from the pile of actual garbabe they were hiding in for an entire day. It’s like that Army commercial where all the soldiers come out of the grass and helicopters fly over…only with garbage. The vending machine camo probably would’ve been far more helpful than its creator ever realized :P (has lots of crazy stories on his website) ;)

    Oh, and we need lots of the knee-pillows over here :D

  • http://www.japannewbie.com harvey

    Actually that was a spur of the moment post because I just noticed that the pillows were available again!

    I’ve got another post in the works that I should get done tonight, that you’ll love even more!

    By the way, that knee-pillow would be an incredible gift for soldiers… I can imagine!

    Hiding in garbage does -not- sound like fun.

  • http://pixelscribbles.com/journal Heather Meadows

    Japundit recently debunked the vending machine thing. Hilarious.

  • http://voodooserpent.deviantart.com JCD

    I’d totally hide in garbage if only because I could claim I did it afterwards. The best part is when the whole squad rose out of the garbage in the middle of a crowd. Just imagine if you were a bystander when that happened. Yah, I’d totally do that.

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