Real People Share the Quirky Things That Surprised Them While Traveling Abroad

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We Wonder What This Device Is for

Japan is famous for its quirks and uniqueness. Japanese inventions like a baby onesie fitted with a dust pad for the baby to clean the floor as it crawls, or a pillow that looks like a woman's lap to rest your head on boggle the mind and have been circulating the web in recent years. There's also a growing market for companion robots, that can move, speak, and do all sorts of activities humans usually perform - unheard of in the rest of the world, not-so-unheard of in Japan.

DIEMUT STREBE
DIEMUT STREBE

So, this animatronic mouth and nose seem to fit right in with the rest of the weird inventions so common there. Our only question is, what does it do?