Chest pillow to support spines of Japanese gamers (no, this isn’t about breasts)

From the Land of Crazy Inventions That Have No Practical Application comes the “Game Dutch”. This vaguely-good idea is a chest pillow designed for handheld gamers to rest their chins on. Apparently, the DS is so huge in the Land of Atomic Firestorms, that people are actively injuring themselves while trying to faux-cook or faux-raise-puppies. Hence, this chest pillow provides the kind of spinal support that only a life of excercise and wise health choices could provide you previously.

While you have to appluad the entrepreneurial spirit that made someone think they could market a pillow only useful for sitting cross-legged and squinting at a tiny screen, you also have to wonder why everyone in Japan is sitting cross-legged. Is it some kind of chi thing? Would it dishonor their ancestors to sit spread eagle? Are all of my ideas about Japanese people just thinly veiled racism gleaned from the Kung-Fu-sploitation flicks of the mid 70s? America may never know the answers to these questions, and like the Japanese fixation on used panties, I think it’s for the best, in this case, that we distance ourselves from our Nipponese brethren.

[Via BoingBoing]