Japanese Students Invent Mechanical Coat That Pretends To Be Your Girlfriend

Another cybernetic breakthrough for lonely Japanese losers.

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Japanese video sharing site NicoNico every once in a while holds a new invention that captures the imagination. Who could forget the auto targeting waste basket or the robot hand that can work a calculator?

That's nice, but get back to me when you perfect videophones. It's the 2010s, damn it, I want a videophone! (No, Skype doesn't count.)

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The “Raiju Coat” (Fulfillment Coat) was developed by a team of students at Tsukuba University in order to simulate the joy a young man feels when his girlfriend hugs him around the waist from behind – using two robotic pincers.

Or the young man could just shave, shower, splash on some cologne, put on some bitchin' threads and go find himself a girlfriend - oh, wait, this product is meant for socially inept losers who can't get girlfriends to save their lives. My mistake.

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It’s unlikely the fulfillment coat will get far outside of the Tsukuba labs but it looks like those guys had fun making it.

That's because the basic concept has been done before. It's called a hugbox, guys. Google it.

Seriously, with all the useful shit Japanese people invent, you think they'd have come up with some sort of social teaching tool or program for the, erm, unfortunate young men the Raiju Coat was meant for. You know, maybe they could invent classes that teach them effective ways to get and keep human girlfriends!

Oh, who am I kidding? It's Japan.

I know what Clopper wants for Christmas.

No, you don't.

xerrofoot wrote:

Or the young man could just shave, shower, splash on some cologne, put on some bitchin' threads and go find himself a girlfriend - oh, wait, this product is meant for socially inept losers who can't get girlfriends to save their lives. My mistake.

hahahahaha

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xerrofoot wrote:

Oh, who am I kidding? It's Japan.

Exactly. Was this really the worst you could find?

Oh no, I found something much worse in South Korea.