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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...apan_pillow_dc

'Lap Pillow' Offers Solace to Lonely Men

TOKYO (Reuters) - Single or lonely Japanese men may get lucky this Christmas.

One popular item for holiday shoppers is the "lap pillow," with skin-colored polyurethene calves folded under soft thighs -- a comfy cushion for napping, reading or watching television.

The 9,429 yen ($90) pillow, which comes with one red and one black skirt, went on sale in late November and maker Trane Co Ltd says shipments have reached 3,000 in just a few weeks.

"We created this item to help tired people relax," said Makoto Igarashi, Trane's managing director.

Care was taken with details such as the softness of the thighs, panty lines on the pillow's "backside" and wrinkles in the lap of the skirt so as to make the pillow look and feel as real as possible.

"We thought our main customers would be men in their 20s, but even men in their 60s are buying it," Igarashi said.

At stores, lap pillows gather crowds where people poke and pry at the foam legs.

"I think this may be good for single men, but it could cause trouble for someone who is married," said Shingo Shibata, a 27-year-old company employee browsing at a toy store which sells the pillow.
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Now something for the men since the ladies get a 'man pillow' that basically looks like an arm touching a boobie when wrapped around the girl.

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nickel

please put this on the list for the one of the top ten dumbest inventions of 2004

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BrewMaster

i wonder why they feel the need to have a red or black skirt option?

panty lines? geez. i second the vote for the dumbest invention.

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brainsmile

yeah I heard about this this morning... first it was that pillow for women ... now this

dsuds

With just a couple modifications, those would sell pretty good out in the pink cinderblock building with the blacked out windows down by the highway. Ya know, the place where they got gas powered vibrators. Uncle Perv would buy one.

Jeffbx

Now, do you pull start one of those, or kick start it?

BrewMaster

i think it's more of a push button mechanism.

caribiner23

dsuds

The "little" ones are pull start - like a weed whacker

The BIG ones kick start - like a hog

And VIBRATOR-ZILLA plugs into 220V, 3 phase

BrewMaster

good lord. the city workers could rip up the sidewalk with that thing.

Booyamos

i never understand some of the crazy things that i see developed in japan... the culture there is just way different in some aspects. Though for every crazy thing like this there always seems to be some sweet new gadget

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revil

but, oh the pleasure

BrewMaster

sounds like you've been treated to a ride on the "jackhammer."