What do you get when you cross a nursing student taking an internet marketing class and a filtration engineer? A fart-sucking chair pillow is what. And the Japanese love it, which ought to tell you something.

Although to be a super-mega-hit in Japan, they'd probably have to make a version that talked back to you or giggled or vibrated or something when you let one rip. Or maybe converted the odors into the smell of shellfish. "Hiroyuki, your office is strong of shrimp-smell. Have have you been snacking on the edamame again?" That sort of thing.

Well, I may be a little harsh on the Japanese. But they are, after all, the country that developed computerized toilet seats that warm your bottom, make fake flushing noises, and provide automatic toothbrush-shaped squirt guns to spare you from wiping. Anyway, Santa and his reindeer love the thing so it's got to be good.