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I think I need two of these

Everyone needs a little laugh now and then. If you’re not inclined to guffaw yourself, there’s a handy device to relieve you of that burden. Nobumichi Tosa, president of Maywa Denki*, built a manually-operated WAHHA GO GO laughing machine. This is a clockwork mechanism to reproduce human-sounding (kinda, sorta) laughter. Here’s a video of it doing its thing.

Sorry, but the narration is in Japanese. Doesn’t matter though, the point of the video is to hear WAHHA GO GO laugh. It’s not exactly Joker-quality cackling, but at least it takes a lot of effort.

Notice how the “teeth” seem to need some orthodontia.

I can just imagine a shop manager looking at these plans: “You want me to build a clock-work laughing machine that doesn’t do anything but reproduce a creepy laugh? That’ll be ¥32 million . . . in advance.”

* Be warned, the website is a wonder of style over function: lots of needless animation. Be sure to check out the company history to see how it went from producing useful stuff to this . . . I don’t know what the hell you’d call it, “art” maybe.

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