
My first reaction - when I saw today on Thanko's web site that the notoriously silly gadget maker from Tokyo is selling
USB-powered gloves with built-in heaters [JP] - 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 though they closed their English online store last month.
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