Yes, what you see above is real. It is also, not surprisingly, from Japan, the land of the crazy gadget. The Tama-chan is a watermelon-cooler, a 14-pound roll-along case which will keep your fruit chilled in summer or your rice warm in winter. It gets its power via AC or DC cables, and can be plugged in to the cigarette-lighter socket in your car.
To be honest, the gadget would look more at home in a sci-fi B-movie, filled with the brain of a hyper-intelligent super-being and rolled around by a tough-but-stupid minion. As an actual real-world device, it seems almost pointless. As the Lady commented when forced to give her opinion, “You’d have to have a lot of space at home” before buying one of these.
On the other hand, it would make an excellent vehicle for the world dominating plans of watermelon baby.
More astonishing yet is the price. The melon-cooler (or brain-preserver) is ¥20,000. That’s $230. A fortune for the melon-lover, but a real bargain for a body-less super-brain — or melon-embedded infant genius — intent on ruling the world.
Portable hot and cold storage [Joybond via Switched]
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