Posted by axxxr
From ghost detectors to shiitake mushrooms, ultraviolet ray meters to jewels, mobile phone straps are among Japan's most successful consumer products. And the trinkets used on them are getting sillier than ever.
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Some bestellers:
The Ghost Detector mobile phone strap promises to detect any abnormal energy source in the air and shift into "barrier mode" to protect users from any savage spirits it picks up.
The Shiitake mushroom mobile strap uses authentic 40- to 60-year-old delicacies too small to be sent to pricey ryotei restaurants, but just right to hang off the end of a mobile phone.
Other popular straps include handmade glass baubles modeled on similar jewelry worn in Mesopotamia in 2500 BC and beads that act as a UV ray checker to let people know to take care when it's sunny.
Surprisingly, buying lots of these straps, especially the pricey ones, are older Japanese folk.
"Mobile phone straps first become popular in about 1997. Now, about 70 percent of all mobile phone users across Japan are said to decorate their phones with a strap. They've been popular and unpopular at various times since they first appeared, but I think it's fair to say that they are well and truly part of our lives now," says Atsushi Higuchi, operator of a store in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, that stocks over 10,000 different varieties of mobile phone-related merchandise".
Posted by JK
Lol!! thats cute, will make lotsa money from that idea!!
Posted by thegreatone
the ghost detector would be cool
Posted by goldenface
I want one! Off to ebay......
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http://www.himeyashop.com/pro[....]p/cPath/80_83/products_id/4632
Retail Price: Open Price
Size: 3cm (Body), 8x1.5cm (Strap)
Item Description:
This is a mobile phone strap with a ghost detector. You can search ghosts using this ghost detector! Just push the button and it starts to search for ghosts. It keeps blinking for about ten seconds. If the circumstance around you is normal, it stops blinking. But if something unusual, it cautions you by blinking in red with buzzer sounds! If you need to stay there, keep pushing the button for some seconds. "Barrier Mode" starts to expel ghosts out of your body then.
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Posted by Sammy_boy
Ghost detector? I'm wanting a bulls**t detector to detect crap like that!
Other more useful 'detectors':
- Chav detector - flashes white for 10 seconds, then changes to a burberry colour if there are any chavs within range, and protects you by projecting an illusion that you're wearing a white tracksuit and chunky Argos jewellery so you blend in the the 'locals'
- Boy racer detector - Flashes a metallic blue 'Max Power' sign if a Saxo, 106, Fiesta, Corsa or even Nova is in range and in fitted with offensive body kits, nasty alloy wheels, an array of tacky looking LEDs in places like the windscreen washer jets, bits of scaffolding exhibiting themselves as 'powerful' exhausts, and driving around in a gear lower than necessary as it makes you look and sound oh-so-cool!
Anyone got any other ideas for detectors?
Posted by axxxr
yeh i'll have me a Chav detector please..that would prove to be very handy!
Posted by axxxr
Not all phone straps in japan are as esoteric as ghost detectors and shiitake mushroom's, some are actually useful at the office.
a Japanese company which has rolled out a series of eight miniature stationery items that can double as phone straps.
The items, ranging from a ballpoint pen to an eraser, are 6cm long or less, and are designed to look the same as their regular-size counterparts.
Posted by *Jojo*
I won't be needing that ghost detector thing . . . as I can personally SEE one ! I have SIX senses . . .
Posted by renesis
6 senses? Lol, i remember that movie. Lol.
Posted by *Jojo*
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Yeah . . . I've watched it 6 times in 6 different occasions started at 6 pm . . . thats' how I got my - SIX Cents !
Posted by axxxr
*Jojo* you sure it wasn't the \"Return of the Comeback\"
How about these bread phone straps!
Posted by *Jojo*
That's much better dude . . . as I can eventually re-heat that in the oven . . unlike the 'ghost', one wherein I have to hunt one first myself . . .
Posted by goldenface
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LMAO
Posted by axxxr
I've never been quite keen on phone straps of any kind...they kind of get in the way if you know what i mean...and they look a bit gay (nothing against gays just that im straight)...but if it was something really practical...i mean very practicle something i could use all the time then maybe i would consider one.
Posted by tupac1
i love japan.
omg omg i want the ghost detector.
eazzzzy ther big fella.
these stuff are nice, out of the ordinary. AND WHAT THE HELL IS THE MUSHROOM? hahahahaha oh fair dinkum meat pie
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hahahahha
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Posted by max_wedge
Hey JN, you're in rare form today! I'm splitting my sides laughing..
Posted by Sammy_boy
This place wouldn't be the same without our jojo and his off the wall comments!
i haven't really gotten into this phone charm thing either, though have got one of those little plant thingys, not on my phone atm as it got in the way and I was worried about it scratching the phone. like Axxxr I'd get something like a phone dangly thing if it had a practical purpose.
Posted by QuickShare
ghost detectors are damn kewl
any possibility to have such item worldwide? hope they manage to create a ghost destroyer aswell
Posted by shaliron
Trust the Japanese to have those types of gadgets
Posted by max_wedge
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I have a dangly phone thingy. It has a practical purpose as well as decorative. It's job is to be able to quick change between wrist straps and neck straps:
Posted by Chrispy
HAHHAHAHA
mushrooms 
Posted by axxxr
You might also want to check these out,the MoPods are characters that live in domes and will light up, spin and flash to alert you that there is an incoming call. FIREBOX
