Thursday, April 17, 2008

Tears on your lap pillow

A Tokyo toy shop worker tries out a lap pillow
A Tokyo toy shop worker tries out a lap pillow. Photograph: Toru Yamanaka/Getty

"... It'll be lonely this Christmas, without you to hold ...". But not, perhaps, if you live in Japan and invest in a human-shaped pillow.

Hot on the heels of a £45 man's arm pillow, which hit the headlines in October, is one for the fellas: the foam lap-pillow. Now there may be something lost in translation that I am missing here but I think it is basically, nay startlingly, a pillow in the shape of the bottom half of a woman. Albeit one that bears a striking resemblance to a Jake and Dinos Chapman sculpture.

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