You will soon be able to buy this newest creation from Maywa Denki. With a clever use of rubber cords and a mechanism of opening and closing of the mouth, Maywa Denki has managed to transform this little dog gun into a whistling, barking instrument of cuteness. Kill ’em with kindness takes on another meaning!

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If you are hanging around Chiba on 19th February (Sunday) don´t forget to visit Wonder festival. At Maywa Denki exposition you can see various famous musical instruments, art and more.. more…

Are you hungry while running? No probem anymore! Wearable robot Tomatan can feed feed you as you run. more…

Hurray – Otamatone has own new iPhone & iPad application. You can play music by touching screen and tilting a device. You can choose color of otamatone as original toy (Black, white, pink, yellow and blue). Apllication can record your performance and save up to 7 track. If you leave Otamatone for a few moments he starts to speak and mimic. There is also Otamatone Melody mode which contains 11 songs. One of them is Beethoven’s 9th Symphony played by MAYWA DENKI’s president Novumichi Tosa him self. App cost $3.99 – More information on iTunes => Otamatone app Novumichi Tosa presenting app on this video – enjoy

After Nobumichi Tosa took over as President after his brother Masamichi Tosa, he started developing new series called “Edelweiss”. This was a project, which involves a number of musical devices, but these are altogether more elaborate.  Edelweiss project brought him to join a big exhibition in Paris and London. For a while he was located in England. Also the English phrase “Nonsense Machines” seems to have been officially adopted. Because a lot of Maywa Denki’s contrivance are balancing between art, desing or comercial products. Most of Maywa Denki’s products are musical instruments. And how better to showcase their product line than in live concerts. And these concerts are exactly what makes this company so unique, original and inconsistent. more…

Otamatone creator Maywa Denki is an art unit formed in 1993 by two brothers, Masamichi and Nobumichi Tosa. Art unit is named after a company their father Maywa Denki Ltd in Ako city. more…