Aug 24 2007Insect Vaccuum
From the "Worst Inventions to Come out of Japan" department comes the "Insect Catcher". It sucks up insects, but you have to be about an inch away, which is dumb. Because if you can get an inch away, you could smash the damn bug with your hand. Watch the video to see some idiot sucking an ant off a wall, but never any flies. Oh, and they really need to rename this thing "Not a Penile Enlargement Pump" because, well, I'm on my way to the hospital to have it removed.
A video after the jump, along with a link to the Japanese product site, with an almost flawless translation.
Product Site [via ohgizmo]
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Reader Comments
1. bythepathway - August 24, 2007 10:07 AM
I suppose you would need the warning "Not a Penile Enlargement Pump," thankfully for the rest of us though, our penises are larger than the average insect. (You walked into that one :p)
2. Li - August 24, 2007 10:08 AM
I'd buy that. I can't count how many times there's been a spider or something crawling around on my desk and I didn't have anything )that I didn't want guts all over) to squish it with. Squishing bugs is nasty.
3. jh - August 24, 2007 10:26 AM
Lord of the Flys?!
4. non - August 24, 2007 10:32 AM
that thing is sweet!!
5. Smartass - August 24, 2007 12:04 PM
and savory.
with a nice buggy after taste.
6. mint - August 24, 2007 1:54 PM
from the site:
"...this extent hard boiled the eye which was seen is important."
Exactly!
7. CC - August 24, 2007 2:31 PM
10mm? You could flick it by then, which would be way more fun.
8. uruwai - August 24, 2007 3:25 PM
Would be much more fun if instead of sucking the poor bug, it spat some gooey substance on it.
Like my mucus.
Or like the brownish thing on my undies
9. jimbo wales - August 24, 2007 3:28 PM
I used to own one of these in the 80's... it rocked. You could actually kill a spider on your ceiling without trying to chuck a phone book up at it.
10. Laurenbuck@mac.com - August 24, 2007 6:49 PM
This isn't new, nor is it only in Japan. My dad got me one of these when I was in high school ten years ago. It looked just like the one in this pic -- but again, it's been around for over ten years.
11. alfatango - August 24, 2007 8:34 PM
I'd get my penis stuck in it too...
12. Nosey - August 25, 2007 1:52 AM
I would pick my nose with it.
13. Kaye - August 25, 2007 4:47 AM
My only question is, why is the guy pretending to be a soldier in a war or something? Is he hunting a giant insect? Does anybody actually hide before stomping an insect?
14. RandomNigel - August 25, 2007 1:56 PM
ROFL at the lame Jap James Bond.
15. Matt - August 26, 2007 1:36 AM
You are going to get your penis removed?
16. Matt - August 26, 2007 1:39 AM
P.S.
Since insects do scare the shizznit out of me I do hide before even thinking about killing it.
17. haha - April 25, 2009 2:35 AM
hahahaha i want one
it would be fun...
even if i didnt suck up bugs with it
but common
if you and get with in 1cm to it
the bugs probs already dead,