Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The other week Tim showed a Japanese toy that consisted of a plastic tube full of sweets, with a plastic hand at the end of the tube. Two little buttons meant you could animate the hand. Tim was not quite sure what the purpose of the animated hand was, but then we received this comment...
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@MichelleUS66
5 days ago (edited)
The first item (the plastic hand) was sold in Japan. It’s designed to allow you to play “janken” (rock, paper, scissors) with it. (No buttons pressed would be “paper”, one button pulls down two fingers – giving you “scissors”, and the other button pulls down all four fingers – giving you “rock”.
It seems like a convoluted way to play a game you can do with your own hand, but the engineering that went into the toy is pretty cool.
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So now we know! You use the toy to play Rock, Paper, Scissors. While eating the sweets at the same time of course!
Thank you MIchelleUS66 for pointing this out to us. :-)
The other week Tim showed a Japanese toy that consisted of a plastic tube full of sweets, with a plastic hand at the end of the tube. Two little buttons meant you could animate the hand. Tim was not quite sure what the purpose of the animated hand was, but then we received this comment...
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@MichelleUS66
5 days ago (edited)
The first item (the plastic hand) was sold in Japan. It’s designed to allow you to play “janken” (rock, paper, scissors) with it. (No buttons pressed would be “paper”, one button pulls down two fingers – giving you “scissors”, and the other button pulls down all four fingers – giving you “rock”.
It seems like a convoluted way to play a game you can do with your own hand, but the engineering that went into the toy is pretty cool.
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So now we know! You use the toy to play Rock, Paper, Scissors. While eating the sweets at the same time of course!
Thank you MIchelleUS66 for pointing this out to us. :-)
