A resort in Japan is offering young men a tourism destination to frolic with their virtual girlfriends. The resort is based on a game called “Love Plus,” which encourages players to develop long-term relationships with virtual women.

Japan has hosted the world’s first wedding to be conducted by a robot.The automated creature, known as the I-Fairy, oversaw the wedding of Tomohiro Shibata and Satoko Inoue in the capital, Tokyo.The couple decided to use the robot as they are both connected with Japan’s thriving robotics industry… news.bbc.co.uk

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If we didn’t know any better, we’d think this experimental robot mouth was destined for sex shops. But its mindless bleating isn’t too sexy, unless you’re one of the Japanese researchers who built it… dvice.com

Kinda cool, if it weren’t really a Nike commercial…

This robot baby, named Diego-san, is the stuff nightmares are made of. Standing a bit over four feet tall and featuring a grotesquely large head… dvice.com

This Japan-nly NTT Docomo Melty Chocolate phone is ridiculous. It’s a working phone—it has 8-megapixel camera, digital TV tuner, Bluetooth and such—but the menus are designed to look like chocolate, and the outside looks like chocolate… gizmodo.com

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Engineers from Activelink, a Kyoto-based subsidiary of Panasonic, are hoping to turn science fiction into reality with a powerful robotic exoskeleton suit that gives its operator superhuman strength… pinktentacle.com

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This is wrong for just so many reasons…

The Bowlingual Voice, produced by Japanese toymaker Takara Tomy, is a talking gadget which analyses the acoustics of a dog’s bark and translates the findings into human words…telegraph.co.uk

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