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  • these are some strange but maybe useful products sold in japan.

  • Mm hmm So I want to do something a little bit different.

  • This video.

  • So I searched far and wide to find some of the latest japanese goods that are maybe on the weirder or stranger side that says it's supposed to be useful.

  • Well maybe useful.

  • You guys can let me know in the comments.

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  • That all said, Michael, bring on the first product.

  • The stress reduction voice training extra B needs lebow.

  • So here we go, I am super excited to try this bad boy, This is a stress relieving voice exerciser, definitely a japanese product.

  • I don't even know if they make this in any other country, but it just makes sense to have in Japan because people love to sing, they love to yell, I don't have to yell, but it's nice to be able to do that in the home and not bother other people.

  • I feel like it's been around, we saw it in the store and definitely had to pick it up and show you guys.

  • I mean just looking at the box itself, like right here, it says that it's supposed to reduce the sound by 82% and one song is supposed to burn 7.59 calories.

  • I would have to sing for like 10 hours in order to burn one ice cream.

  • It's funny how they sell this as kind of like an exercise thing.

  • Like hey guys, let's start playing basketball and let's sing and then just right here on the stem, it says if your health and beauty are supported by voice exercise.

  • So the way it works is that you get this little guy you're supposed to speak into here catches your voice.

  • This right here is kind of like a rubbery material and then it comes with this here and this attaches to right here, I believe.

  • So basically the idea is if you're going to sing, you yell into this and then you put this as an ear piece.

  • Look at this, it says stress reduction voice.

  • Official product name is gets a short exercise first of all, let's just test this out.

  • This is my voice, this is my voice, This is me talking, this is me talking, Is it quieter?

  • Can you scream?

  • Yeah, like that.

  • Something like this.

  • Can you make myself chicken?

  • Yeah, I can hear you but it's not that loud.

  • Okay, let's see if I put this little ear piece on.

  • I guess you can hear yourself better with like this ear piece, Can you sing something like easy or Eminem?

  • I can't even sing normally.

  • Let's try to sing twinkle twinkle little star.

  • It's just working pretty well.

  • The stainless steel cutter butter case by skater.

  • This next one caught our eye.

  • I think it's been around for a little bit and I think it's been reproduced all over the world, but I think maybe it was originally from Japan.

  • So look at this.

  • This is the butter cutter case.

  • It is made from a brand called skater gator dot C O dot jp.

  • That's kind of a cool name that they got.

  • Well, it's a cool name, but it just isn't a line maybe with a butter cutter case bottom here does say meaning made in Japan.

  • It's interesting to the packaging, it's almost kind of like ripped off from the butter case.

  • This butter that you got is unsalted and from Hokkaido.

  • Oh, but this one, in fact, is what Michael really wanted for her.

  • So, I think she saw it on instagram and she's like, oh, we have to have it comes with this like nifty plastic top, even a butter knife and it comes with the case and the bottom tray.

  • So we're gonna try this live.

  • I feel like we should be streaming this one because I feel like I'm gonna mess this up.

  • So the idea is to take the butter case, it's really blown out.

  • I guess I can be super dark.

  • No worries.

  • This is true color.

  • This is how dark I really am.

  • Let me open this up and put her on the tray.

  • Butter is not refrigerated.

  • It's kind of like room temperature because I'm going to use that for one thing.

  • You don't trust my hands are clean.

  • What do you think I do all day?

  • You don't know, maybe this butter is dirty butter.

  • Getting on top ready and butter has been placed on the tray.

  • Like, so, oh, look at that butter.

  • Okay, ready and go, it's too hard.

  • Yeah, that There you go, wow.

  • It worked.

  • It really worked amazing, sliced butter.

  • Okay, so I really, really wanted this.

  • It's not just a cutter, but it's like a storage for butter.

  • So you can just put it in the fridge and I want this because my butter.

  • Yeah, I always use it like this just like peel it and then it's so missy.

  • I'm so happy.

  • I was looking for this.

  • So I will put this in the fridge.

  • Michael.

  • This says they forgot the space.

  • The breath upper by pro idea.

  • So this next one is breast breath like breath right?

  • Anyway, so this one, it looks like a health product.

  • It's kind of hard to tell.

  • Like the biggest thing on this package is this female feel like they're selling her top or and then just like a tiny little thing right here that they're selling.

  • But then this girl is in front and then you have like this fire on her stomach.

  • It's like you're trying to warm her stomach.

  • Anyways, just taking this thing, you put it all together, you get this guy, it looks like a fun little pipe.

  • I guess you're supposed to blow it and you get like a work out.

  • How many times do you think I can do this?

  • Do you even know how to use it?

  • If it's exercise?

  • You have to keep it between two and three.

  • Oh benefits Voice training.

  • Voice training.

  • You're saying boys, are you training boys started voice training?

  • You have to go up and down three times.

  • All right.

  • So first of all, let's try to see if I can get between two and three.

  • Okay ready?

  • I didn't even go up.

  • Oh wow.

  • It takes a lot of oxygen to that breath.

  • Okay, that's hard.

  • Do you have to take a really deep breath?

  • Okay, you can try.

  • Mm hmm, mm hmm.

  • Okay, one last try.

  • I think the goal is to go hard initially.

  • So you get it up and then, you know, it's hard to get it.

  • Yeah, it is.

  • Mm hmm.

  • Well, technically, okay, I'm going for a world record right now.

  • Oh, there we go.

  • Smile, kids.

  • So this next guy is supposed to make life a whole lot easier because it always has your back.

  • That's how my dad, what can I say?

  • Even if you guys like that joke, let me know.

  • Okay, so this one is supposed to help you put on the back pads.

  • What I forgot what it's called in english medicated pads maybe.

  • Yeah, I think there's like another basically if you ever need to like stick one of these pads on your back and you just can't reach all the way down.

  • Then basically this guy is supposed to help you out.

  • So what you do is you take the pad that's half this is already peeled halfway.

  • And what you do is you place the ship, we're just gonna call it cheap because I can't remember the name and then it has kind of like a velcro layer.

  • And what you do is you just snap it on like that and it holds in place and because of the velcro, it doesn't stick to it.

  • And then what you can do is now you have the pad here.

  • you can also take this piece off.

  • So just rip it off now you have the sticky side on both.

  • And then you take your shirt off.

  • So let's just say, I need to put it on right here.

  • There you go.

  • Now.

  • If I were just to use my hand and do it myself, I would be like, it's like that.

  • So, I think it is helpful if you really want to, you can go like super deep.

  • How many times will you use this?

  • I don't know.

  • But it is useful.

  • You can reach your whole entire back.

  • Let me see.

  • Okay, pretend like you just put it on.

  • Okay.

  • I want you to put it here.

  • If you don't have to take off your shirt, don't do that kind of service you want right here.

  • Yeah.

  • Oh damn.

  • Did I get it?

  • Yeah, well, you got it.

  • So I guess if you're flexible then you're good.

  • Perfect.

  • Oh wow, Good job.

  • Not the worst product, not the best product, but it works the by.

  • So, this next one takes tupperware to the whole new level.

  • It looks like your regular tupperware plastic and all.

  • But if you look at the lid, it has a special little device, it comes with its own tongs.

  • So if you ever have, you know some stuff and looking for work or some chopsticks to get your stuff out and you don't need to you can just use this.

  • Just imagine, Michael, you're in this situation, you just came back from a long workout.

  • Say perhaps you're using dressed up and you go to the fridge and like I am so hungry and you notice that ah, I have some Okra and you're like, oh man, I want to eat it right away, but I need a fork and it's like, boom, I can go straight into it and I don't even have to get my hands dirty, let's see how it picks up and but bam three pieces all at once.

  • That's how I like to do it, look how easy that is and it's pretty like grippy and you just look at that.

  • Yeah, it's so easy and I think what's pretty nice too is that these things come off and if you need to wash it or anything like that, boom, easy peasy.

  • And then once you're done eating all you have to do is just put it away and you're done.

  • I don't know personally.

  • I think this one is super useful.

  • The 10 No, here a cabbage pillar bike.

  • I, so this next guy is something that Michael really thought was interesting.

  • I didn't know who choices on.

  • I thought, so this one, I really thought was really the thing is, there's so many different kind of like slices and dices at the store.

  • We had to like narrow it down and I thought one was cool, Michael thought this one was cooler.

  • This is a no hitter to send giddy.

  • You can see there's a cabbage in the back, but oh thanks, Michael over the cabbage and basically you have this tool, it almost looks like a sort of like a breastplate.

  • You have scissors.

  • Why did you give me this?

  • Okay, here we go.

  • Yes, thank you.

  • We have lettuce everywhere.

  • I think I just got some, so okay, there you go.

  • We just went all over the place.

  • That's what you get.

  • You get some shredded lettuce.

  • Would you feel like if you cut the lettuce cabbage?

  • Maybe you keep on saying lettuce, but it's probably cabbage.

  • Oh, clearly say, oh really?

  • That we should have used a harder cabbage.

  • Fair warning.

  • So there you go.

  • If you want something just a little bit easier, use a harder cabbage.

  • The salad rong bi, no nog, let's move on to the next one.

  • This one is going to be hopefully a little less messier.

  • It should be because it has its own lid.

  • So this is another shredder that we have to look at.

  • This thing works for like carrots and cucumbers, cucumbers?

  • Yeah, yeah.

  • So all of those, you can switch the sides so it's, you can choose whether you want a smaller or a larger hole and you can just switch just like this.

  • But let's try this out.

  • We've got a carrot today.

  • I'm gonna shut the lid right there, just like, so, oh, maybe I need to do like a smooth motions.

  • I don't know.

  • I'm gonna try to smile while I do it.

  • I have like a stressed out face because I wanted to like, you know, be happy.

  • So if I had it facing this way, I think we're good.

  • But look at that, look, it's all encased in this plastic.

  • You just, you can't work at the buffet because I don't use any other tools aside from this, but it's super useful, right?

  • Can make, we can make a coleslaw and then we have cabbage cabbage, the ceramic toast steamer by Marna.

  • Okay, Michael World.

  • This next one is a steamy one, the bread steamer.

  • So the concept behind this bad boy is you soak it in some water for about 20 seconds and then you put it between your bread while you're toasting it and it's supposed to give you kind of like that nice toasty moist bread.

  • You know, sometimes you get the bread and it's just like super, super dry.

  • It's a little bit different if you have that little nice kind of moisture and crunchiness at the same time, it's getting hot in here or should I dare to say steaming.

  • It says back here 91.5%.

  • It's supposed to like increase the moisture level basically when you toast the bread, a lot of the moisture leaves the bread and so it weighs less.

  • So this one, I guess you kind of infuse some moisture inside of the bread while you're cooking at the same time.

  • Okay, so you have this ceramic bread looking loaf and it is hollow in the bottom.

  • And what you do is you soak it in some water and luckily we have some water, let me just drop it in.

  • Mhm.

  • Oh it is deeply submerged.

  • I'll hold this for 20 seconds.

  • We will fast forward now.

  • Okay, there you go.

  • And this is also a workout for me and when you are ready to go, you take it out and cook it up.

  • So here we go after a few minutes of Youtube magic.

  • Here are the pieces of bread.

  • Can you guys tell which one has been toasted with a ceramic?

  • So this one here on the left is the one without the ceramic steamer.

  • And this one is the one with the ceramic steamer steamer.

  • And you can see that this one that got toasted a little bit less.

  • This one a little bit more.

  • And I think that's just because the toaster was already hot, right?

  • It wasn't like they made it any hotter but in terms of weight.

  • I can't really tell the difference.

  • Okay, I don't think we can tell the taste test.

  • Can you like rip the crust off for me?

  • So, I just like it like the middle piece basically.

  • It should taste better.

  • Right, You gotta tell me it was just my first test.

  • Yeah.

  • Okay, This is the 2nd 1.

  • Mm hmm.

  • The second one that you gave me is a lot more dough here.

  • And I was a little bit more moisture.

  • So I think it's the second one.

  • Really?

  • Yeah, I thought because it's like more doughy.

  • I was the one that was steamed.

  • But if you just go by the taste then yeah, the one that uses ceramic toaster is tastes a lot better.

  • So in fact it did work.

  • There you go.

  • By the ceramic toaster.

  • Oh, look at this guy.

  • All right.

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  • And if you guys like this video or anything else and if you guys don't like, it should be just close it there.

  • No, no, no.

  • Yeah, that's me.

  • Would you notice something?

  • Oh, you want to try have some of the bread?

  • Mm hmm.

  • How is it?

  • So we're gonna close it right here.

these are some strange but maybe useful products sold in japan.

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