Hasta La Gadget!

It’s set to be a holly jolly holiday season, especially if you’re keen to do your gift shopping online. Google’s browser-based Shopping tool just scored a pretty comprehensive refresh, complete with a handful of new features designed to make it easier to browse, search for and select a variety of items. A new preview pane lets you view colors, sizes and a product description, along with online and retail store availability, while an updated Shortlist tool gathers “maybe” items in a temporary cart that resides at the top of each page. You can also get a good look at everything from cameras to handbags to toys with the interactive 360-degree viewer, now available for select items. Google hopes that last tool will help deliver an “in-store feeling,” but to complete the experience, you might also want to climb aboard an RV and set up shop in a Walmart parking lot the night before Black Friday with a “free restrooms” sign on the door. Happy holidays!

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Even though Xiaomi’s been doing quite well in mainland China and Taiwan, you still won’t be able to find its products in brick-and-mortar stores, except for those of partner carriers and scalpers. This is why we got a bit giddy when we heard the company is now in the process of setting up 18 stores across China. But there’s a catch: you won’t be able to buy any Xiaomi Phones or Xiaomi TVs in them. Instead, you’ll only find accessories there, including the Xiaomi Box, phone cases, batteries, cables, RC toys, clothes and even dolls of the Xiaomi bunny mascot.

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Leave it to Japan to come up with something like Soineya. It’s the newest cafe in town and it’s probably the only of its kind in the world. That’s because instead of offering juice or coffee or sandwiches, Soineya serves up hugs and cuddles instead.

Yep, you read that right. In Soineya, customers pay to hug, spoon, or sleep (in bed) with some random woman who they just met. Obviously it isn’t the same as getting hugged by someone you care for (and who cares for you, too) but if you’ve got no one, then at least the women at Soineya will be there for you.

Check out the offerings on their ‘menu’:

Admission fee: 3,000 yen

Standard Course

• 20 min – 3,000 yen
• 40 min – 5,000 yen (only 3,000 yen for first time visitors)
• 60 min – 6,000 yen
• “Shimei-ryo” (fee to pick the girl you want to sleep with) – 1,000 yen + 500 yen per hour

Optional Course

• Customer sleeps in girl’s arm (3 min) – 1,000 yen
• Girl pats customer on the back (3 min) – 1,000 yen
• Customer pets girl on the head (3 min) – 1,000 yen
• Customer and girl stare at each other (1 min) – 1,000 yen
• Girl changes clothes (1 time) – 1,000 yen
• Girl gives customer foot massage (3 min) – 1,000 yen
• Customer gives girl foot massage (3 min) – 2,000 yen
• Customer sleeps with head on girl’s lap (3 min) – 1,000 yen
• Girl sleeps with head on customer’s lap (3 min) – 2,000 yen

[via Japan Today via Geekologie]

Business-types, Lenovo pondered, needed their own App Store Shop, dedicated to selling business-only applications to those strutting around looking serious in their polyester suits. It seems that such demand never materialized, however, with the company shuttering the outlet only six months after its launch and pointing users in the direction of Google Play instead. While the bulk of the apps purchased in that time will still work, around 90 that used the store’s license management system will cease to function on November 2nd, a list of which you can find at the source link.

[Thanks, Hemal]

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