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The Japanese have come up with a new way to cool down this summer: instant cool in a can. Just spray it on yourself, and it forms a foam that you can wrap around you. The foam will last an hour, which should be plenty of time, especially if this week is anything to go by.

There’s also an ice spray – this forms a more diffuse pattern of what looks like pustules, fizzing on the skin like they’re burning when actually they’re chilling down to -9 degrees Celsius. See them both in action after the break.

All we need now is some sun.

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Tasty Angry Birds bento serves up edible funWhat do you get when you mix Japanese cuisine with the stylish characters from Angry Birds — Angry Birds bento. A creative chef from mymealbox.com has drawn inspiration from wildly successful game in an edible onigiri rendition of the red bird and green pig. First an Angry Birds cake and now Angry Birds bento, when will it end?

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rubber skinJapanese researchers behind the development of this new rubber say it can conduct electricity pretty well and makes the stretchable material the ideal “e-skin” for robots to enable them to feel both heat and pressure.

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It’s a Sony one-two in the Japanese sales chartsLast week we reported that the PSP was holding onto the number one slot in hardware sales in Japan, by quite a margin. Now last week’s release of Metal Gear Solid 4 means both the PSP and PS3 are way ahead in the Land of The Rising Sun.

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