The problem with living with a ghost is that most of the time they can’t be seen and you won’t know if they’re in the same room with you unless they decide to toss the pottery around for amusement. This can make many ordinary daily routines such as taking a shower very stressful unless you have no sense of modesty. It would be creepy enough to think there was some pervert peeping in on you through the bathroom window so the possibility that there could be a dead pervert standing right next to you as you shave your legs in the shower is probably enough to make you swear off getting naked in your own house ever again.

If you find yourself in just such a situation then you may want to rush right out and buy yourself your own mini-GhostRadar.

Point is, this is a real product. Maybe. It’s called the mini-GhostRadar, and is the fruit of a union between SollidAlliance (the ones behind the bigger Ghost Radar) and Strapya, makers of cellphone charms and such. Whenever the device detects a ghost, it lights up. It detects these otherworldly beings by measuring changes in surrounding magnetic waves.

Of course, it might just “detect” a random magnet. But, at 2079Yen, or roughly $18, you’re basically paying for the opportunity to tell people you got a ghost detector dangling from your phone.

Of course you’ll need to rush right out to Japan as this is only available there at this point in time, but I’m sure someone will import it at some point in the future because we have just as many nut balls here that would plunk down the cash to own such a product as they do over there. I’m willing to bet that you’d discover ghosts tend to like to hang out around the various appliances in your home. Particularly the computer, TV set, radio, and anything that has an electric motor in it. It’s a little known fact that ghosts are major technophiles.