Super Terrific Japanese Thing: Be Your Own Gummi Bear
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Custom action figures of yourself are so yesterday. Because unless you’re a dog, you can’t eat toys. The real revolution in 3D laser-scans lies in candy replicas of yourself. Also, the idea is to give these out on White Day, which is part of Japan’s wonderfully equitable Valentine’s – Women give gifts to their men February 14th, then guys give back on March 14th. And somehow Japanese women are expected to be totally okay with receiving a chewy, stretchy replica of you, because that’s not creepy or egomaniacal at all.
You know it’s only a matter of time – especially in Japan – before somebody figures out how to apply this technology only to specific parts of your body.
h/t SlyDante
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist