Solid Alliance's latest, the UFO-detecting keychain

Solid Alliance, they of the implausible USB devices and ghost-detecting novelty goods, fill another gap in their daft gadget range with the U-tan Radar, a conveniently-sized UFO and alien detector.

Thoughtfully, the U-tan can be hung from your cellphone, where it promises to alert you should you enter an area "where it looks like a UFO could appear". A short push on the button also gives you the ability to manually confirm the possibility of a Close Encounter, and, should you be in the presence of a suspected alien, you can hand them the detector and ask them to hold the button until it beeps. As it appears to work on skin resistance (in the same way as devices that measure body fat), you may find that it has a tendency to tell you that obese people are aliens. If, however, you're still convinced that you don't have a false positive, your choices are limited to playing dumb or begging for your life; hopefully future models will include the all-important option of giving your new friend the U-tan as o-miyage so that the included miniature nuclear device can auto-detonate inside its mothership and wipe out its race.

Developed under the supervision of renowned UFO-chaser Yaoi Jun'ichi, for maximum kudos, and available via Solid Alliance's Rakuten store for Y2,222, though they appear to be sold out until end-November at the moment.

[Via Engadget Japanese]