World's First Portable Ghost Radar

Dose the rattling of chains keep you awake at night? Do the wraiths of long-dead relatives join you for family gatherings? If so, a Japanese gadget company has designed the very thing for you: the world's first portable ghost radar. The pocket-sized device promises to alert its owner to the presence of eight different types of spectre, from "lost souls" to "evil spirits". Using a variety of carefully calibrated sensors - one of which claims to detect human fear - the machine informs users whether the ghost is malevolent or benign. The ghost radar hits Japanese stores next week, just in time for the Japanese ghost-spotting season, and no summer campfire gathering will be complete without it. "Ghosts are something deeply ingrained in Japanese culture," says the device's inventor Kenji Koshida. "People talk about them all the time - especially engineers and other people you'd expect to live in the world of logic. I believe in them."