Curioblog: featuring unusual gifts, gadgets and curiosities |
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Cat cafes are the current rage in Japan |
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For three euros per half hour you are free to go in escorted by your sweet cute little kitten |
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In Japan, there are teenagers who do not go out and socialize but stay day and night shut away in their rooms, they only connect with the outside world through the web. However, also in Japan, they’re opening cafes to pet your cat. That’s the Japanese way.
The 'invention' is 'made in Taiwan' and imported to Osaka by a Japanese four years ago; although it’s only now –after a feature article released by the Spanish news agency EFE– when curiosity has stricken, and it seems that an infectious proliferation of these premises is taking place in Japan: in Tokyo alone there are twenty.
It works like this: for three euros per half hour (one extra euro every other ten minutes) you are free to go in escorted by your sweet cute little kitten, or your big cat, mingle with cats and sip tea or enjoy any other drink (coffee, juices, bear, sodas… but no food), just like in any other regular cafe.
Put like that, it might sound something like the Red District in Amsterdam.
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Big watches are not the trend. The future is calling for more discreet-sized watches: what about wearing them on a nail? |
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Water could be the core element of an sculpture. That is so, at least, in Charybdis, a work by water sculptor William Pye |
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Being taken back in time to the night of the terrible Dresden air raid on 13th February 1945 is possible at the “Touched Echo.” |
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How many times have imagined yourself cooking an egg on the hot road of any big city when the heat strikes? |
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We are always caught in the rain with no umbrella. Eco Brolly could be a definite solution: it turns anything into an umbrella |
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Feeding the fish in your pond could cease to be a tedious task with Fifer, the smart robot |
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Laptop or designer bag? A good balance: laptop in the inside and bag on the outside |
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Casulo puts an entire bedroom, including a bed equipped with a mattress, in a box. This is mobile living furniture that fits together in a box that’s about the size of a steamer trunk. It’s a bedroom in a box! |
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There’re beaches of fine sand, dirt, pebbles, rocky beaches... Now there are also wooden parquet beaches, like the flooring in you house |
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