Ultra Hand

The Ultra Hand is a toy created by Nintendo's Gunpei Yokoi that was distributed by the company during the Christmas rush of 1967. It was an extending arm that reached out grabbed objects.

Development
Gunpei Yokoi was an engineer for Nintendo's Hanafuda card assembly line. He had created the Ultra Hand as a personal project and had it in the factory when Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi came in. He found the Ultra Hand and with the permission of Gunpei he ordered his company to create over a million of them for the holiday. After it was released it sold an outstanding 1.2 million copies in Japan.