A love-shaped piggy bank from Japan, which is meant for helping ladies to save more. This love-shaped piggy is called Ikemenbank, which has a little handsome digital man living in it, which shows ladies with constant love, to urge them to save more money for him.
This piggy bank is specially designed for the ladies. It’s equipped with an LCD display that shows you the virtual life of the little handsome man which stays inside. It’ll be just like a game that you’ll have to continuously feed this piggy bank with coins, to keep your intimate relationship with the digital man alive. The game could end up with either sour or sweet endings. And it takes 500 yen, which is around 100 yen to end the game.
The name “Ikemenbank” of this piggy bank actually means “handsome man bank”, and it gives you up to five choices of men to choose from, which are “cool model”, “witty comedian”, “gentle, public-school boy”, “young athlete” and “older man with patience”.
These little digital men will always carry some sweet talks to praise the ladies, once they’ve inserted some coins into this bank. The common words from their mouths will be “you are the best,” and “you are looking prettier these days”. Be extra careful that you must always remember to keep your man fed with coins. If you’re kind of forgetful and haven’t fed him with coins for five days, he’ll then be gone and leaving behind is just a farewell note. This piggy bank is set to hit those Japanese shops on Sep 6th. And it’ll carry a price tag of $45.80.
via [gizmowatch]
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