Comments on: Visiting crap gadget maker Thanko in Tokyo (photo gallery)

By: USB-powered gloves that keep your fingers warm (but why?)

USB-powered gloves that keep your fingers warm (but why?) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:42:50 +0000

[...] – was: Who actually buys this kind of stuff? I mean Thanko is a real company, they have brick-and-mortar stores in Tokyo (two of them), they have employees etc. But they have been surviving for years now, even [...]

By: Philip

Philip — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:45:13 +0000

Lived in Tokyo for four years – Laugh perhaps but Akihabara is a serious resource and very fanous. All Tokyo areas have a topic – you just go to the topic and enjoy the experience e.g Hatchico a faithful dog who died witing for his sick master (statue) with a story everybody in Tokyo knows is the meeting place. “Meet you at Hatchico, Sunday 3pm”
It Works.

By: TYPICAL_BAY_AREA_DEVELOPER

TYPICAL_BAY_AREA_DEVELOPER — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:58:18 +0000

I thought their Bukkake USB hub was a low-point.

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:28:33 +0000

Well played, Elmo.

1st pic looks like Radio Shack but with weird ass shit. I gotta get me one of those car laptop holders.

By: Stuffit

Stuffit — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:47:01 +0000

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By: nedders

nedders — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:21:12 +0000

So what – we have been buying all this online for years from their website http://www.thanko.jp

By: Realin

Realin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:51:06 +0000

lol hand and the job :P

By: Bysshe

Bysshe — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:45:38 +0000

Heh, I’m curious about that Media Prayer…

By: Masaru Kemono

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:23:36 +0000

It should be ‘Sanko’ or ‘Sun-kou’ rather than ‘Thanko’. Original pronounciation is ’san-kou’. Its trademark is moutain with sunlight. ‘ko’ means ‘light’.

It seems that Another shop is ‘Akiba-ou’ (’ou’ means ‘king’). We often call it ‘Baoo-’ instead of ‘Akiba-ou’.

By: David

David — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:28:42 +0000

I want to click through the pics, but it takes so dang long for the ads to load on the crunchgear page it’s almost impossible.

No Thanko…

By: Boys Toys

Boys Toys — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:12:54 +0000

Does the hand do what I think it does?

I want one!! :)