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The Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan has come up with a working prototype of a wheelchair with a special talent…

It can climb stairs!

Tags: chiba institute of technology, invention, japan, robot, robotic, robotic wheelchair, wheelchair

Leave it to Japan to invent a phone that you can hug while talking to people.

"I can technically do that with any phone," you say?

Well does your phone vibrate to match the characteristics of the callers voice?

We didn't think so.

It seems kinda crazy and we totally don't want one for Christmas… hint hint.

Check out the video (above) for a close up look at the awesome piece of huggable technology you never knew you wanted (to get us for Christmas).

Tags: cell phone, christmas, crazy, funny, hug, huggable, invention, japan, pillow, talk, talking, voice

Instead of choosing a low fat brand cookie, the Japanese have created a virtual reality to modify the taste of a bland, healthier cookie.

While wearing a giant plastic helmet, cookie munchers chow down on a bland wafer which is virtually simulated to appear as a more appetizing cookie, like chocolate chip.

The virtual image, along with the added scent of the selected cookie spraying out of the head device, tricks user's taste buds into thinking they are eating the real deal!

Called the "Meta Cookie", the contraption boasts:

"By changing the combination of scent and texture to overlay on the marked cookie, "Meta Cookie" can chance its taste which the user perceives from it."

Now thats hardcore! Check out the demonstration of the contraption in action above to see how this incredibly useless inneresting invention works for yourself!

Tags: bland, chocolate chip, healthy, invention, japan, meta cookie, simulation, useless, virtual reality, wafer