I'm not sure how this was in the US, but in the netherlands, back in the day when texting was new, you were charged PER LETTER, instead of per text message, I don't know about you guys but I definitely did not want to pay a ton just to get my message across with proper spelling..

Japan does indeed have cellphone vending machines, but that doesn't really say much because the internet doesn't exactly specify how common they are.
In my country we have vending machines for soup, and vending machines for icecream, but they are definitely not found in every building (in fact there are not that many of them around) and it also doesn't mean we don't have any icecream parlors or that restaurants don't serve soup ;)

its like a cat furby.
i wonder if itll do the same as the furby, mine shorted out the first day i had it, smoke came out of its ears, now that was truely demonic.

"This shadow can actually move with a speed that has no limit."
that is not entirely true since the shadow cast would be the shadow of your finger. So it would be it can travel as fast as your finger, which really isn't very fast now is it?

a friend of mine did all kinds of things when she was younger, she played about 7 different instruments, all on a very high level, played all kinds of sports and did alot of other things besides that. but whenever i would ask her "hey, can i come over to your place today?" she would say, no because today i have tennis, swimming and piano class. maybe you can come next week friday? this was when she was in primary school.
now we are both young adults, she quit every single thing she used to do when she was little and almost flunked out of school on top of that.

what you do at young age really has little to do with what you will end up doing as a grown up in my opinion.

how does it work though? do you have to talk to it or is it like those rings? simply a heat sensor? if so, its nothing really new. just in a new shape.