The balancing act of life is by no means fun, but when it comes to balancing physical objects, it can be suprisingly amusing. “Maintain The Balance of Your Knowledge!”

They once rolled on a wheel, but now a particularly inventive device uses bicycle spokes to roll sushi. The Spoke sushi roller by recycles old bike spokes, making a perfectly useful sushi roller out of them

Learning to write Japanese can be quite a chore and intricate kanji can make things especially challenging. One Nintendo DS game helps players learn and perfect their Japanese handwriting ability.

Right now Japan is gearing up to create the longest flight of any paper airplane ever, about 400km long. This of course makes my record of 6 meters look like child’s play.

Legos and a good anime like Ghost in the Shell are pretty cool. So how does it get better? Ghost in the Shell Lego models perhaps. Tachikoma and Fuchikoma are those adorably awesome tanks from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

Kokeshi are ornate, handmade dolls. Dumbbells are handheld weights made for lifting. The two don’t have much in common other than their shape — sort of. Perhaps that resemblance inspired the Kokeshi Dumbbell.

I don’t know how you used to deal with bullies and hoodlums, but apparently in Japan now you can avoid them by dressing up like a soda machine.

Bring your boring, uninspired USB hub to life with the delightful USB Hubman. The USB hub Hubman is a cute little guy with some great practicality and a fresh, cool look.

Give your home office wheels with the Trunk Station. The stylish, compact, and portable workspace rolls on wheels and folds in half when you’re not slaving away at it.

If robots ever want to take over the world, infiltrating our lines of communcation would be a good starting point. The Toshiba’s “PhoneBraver” may make that task that much easier.