Recurring Dōgu

- Fourth-dimensional pocket (四次元ポケット?)

The inside of this pocket connects to the fourth dimension and acts like a wormhole. It is usually shown
attached to Doraemon's abdomen. Doraemon has a spare pocket which connects to the same location.
- Time machine (タイムマシン?)
The entrance to Doraemon's time machine is in Nobita's desk drawer. The time machine looks like a simple
platform with a control console, and a clock with five hands overhanging the console. Doraemon is often seen
piloting the time machine. Dorami has her own time machine shaped like a tulip, suggesting a variety of models
available in the future. The time machine can create an exit in a specific place spatially as well as temporally.
An alternative to the time machine is the time belt, which does not change the wearer's location relative to
Earth. The presence of this machine is not known by Nobita's mother.
- Take-copter (タケコプター?)
One of the main modes of transportation for the various characters is the take-copter, which combines the words
taketombo (竹とんぼ? lit. bamboo dragonfly, the Japanese name for the bamboo-copter), and part of the word
herikoputā (ヘリコプター?), which means helicopter. The take-copter was also called the heri-tombo (ヘリト
ンボ?) in early stories. The device is a propeller attached to a tiny suction cup which can be attached to enable
flight. Ever since the first few Doraemon stories, the take-copter is seen attached to the head instead of the
waist, similar to a propeller beanie, due to a mishap with Nobita's shorts. The take-copter has also been attached
to objects to enable its flight. One of its disadvantage is its short battery life.
- Moshimo-box (もしもボックス?)
The moshimo-box is a pun based on the Japanese greeting used on the telephone moshi moshi, and the phrase
meaning "what if", or moshimo. The device is a telephone booth where the characters dial a number and
propose a "what if" scenario which alters the world. Nobita has wished for a world where money was not
necessary, and purchasing an item meant receiving cash, and being robbed meant being forced to take cash,
causing store clerks to force cash onto his hands upon attempting to purchase toys. Nobita has also wished for a
world without mirrors, and for a world where lazy people who napped would be hailed as celebrities. But any
situation caused by using this telephone booth may be reverted by using this telephone to make a phone call to
request for "Reverting/Restoring to the original situation". This uses to be the ending of the story that mentions
about the telephone booth.
- Dokodemo door (どこでもドア? lit. anywhere door)
One of Doraemon's most commonly used gadgets is the dokodemo door, a door which allows travel to
anywhere by simply going through the door. In an early story, the door is able to travel to the end of the
universe, but in later chapters, the door is said to only be able to travel a maximum distance of 100,000 light
years and cannot access other dimensions. Another limitation of the door is that it can only safely connect two
known locations in its mapping computer, which also has a limited range of information based on Time as
shown in the movie "Nobita's Dinosaur."
- Time Furoshiki (タイムふろしき? lit. Time wrapping cloth)
Another frequently used gadget, the time cloth has the ability to advance or reverse time depending on which of
its two different colored sides are used. When an object is wrapped around with one face outward, the flow of
time reverses, causing the object to become newer. When wrapped around the other way, time moves forward,
causing the object to become older. It was first used by Nobita to turn old appliances to new appliances to make
money, but its uses extend to many other things, such as converting an object back to its starting material,
repairing broken machinery, aging or de-aging people, and restoring millions-of-years old fossils.
- Small light (スモールライト?)
Small light, is a lamp similar to a flashlight that will shrink objects and people to minuscule sizes. Its opposite is
the big light (ビッグライト?), which enlarges objects and people. Another tool that is used in a similar capacity
is "Gulliver's Tunnel (ガリバートンネル?)", which causes a person to grow or shrink depending on which
entrance he takes, however its ratio of shrinking and enlarging is fixed.
- Pass Loop (通り 抜けフープ Tōrinuke Fūpu?)
A loop which creates a passage through a solid object such as a wall when placed upon it.
- Air cannon (空気砲 Kūkihō?)
A gun barrel worn on the arm used to fire a powerful burst of air which can knock out the victim when the user
says "bang". Later models, featured in the long manga and movies, are fired with a trigger.
- Translation konjac (ほんやくコンニャク hon'yaku-konnyaku?)
A piece of konjac jelly which enables a person to understand and speak any known language in the universe.
The effect begins after the person ingests the jelly, but the duration of the effect is unknown. While the ones
Doraemon uses are usually unflavored, in the story Nobita's Birth of Japan (のび太の日本誕生?), he used one
labeled to be miso flavored, suggesting the existence of various flavors, which are more expensive.
- Dress-Up Camera (着せ替えカメラ Kisekae kamera?)
A camera that uses a picture of clothing instead of film, and changes the clothes of the person in the viewfinder
to the clothing in the picture. It may also be used with no picture or an incomplete picture, with embarrassing
results. The story about Doraemon's four-dimensional dustbin shows that the damaged camera will make the
person naked (ie. when Shizuka used the damaged camera on Nobita, he turned naked). The camera is often
used in the long stories and movies, where the gang must disguise themselves in unfamiliar places to avoid
attracting undue attention, or to provide with a second change of clothes such as bathing suits.

Other dōgu

Of the approximately 4,500 different dōgu featured in Doraemon, most appear only once:

• Memory bread (アンキパン Anki pan?)is a bread used to imprint pages, which after ingestion, will imbue
the consumer with the content imprinted on the bread.
• Restoring beam is a lamp which is able to restore broken items back to their original state.
• Animal biscuits (変身ビスケット Henshin Bisuketto?, it means Transforming Biscuit) are animal crackers
which transforms the consumer into the animal the biscuit is shaped after for a short period of time.(5
minutes)
• Air glue allows the user to stick things in the air.
• Air Crayons are used to draw things in the air, which then become real. The air eraser is used to erase the
drawings.
• Almighty pass is a passport which grants the holder access to anywhere and anything without cost or
identification. Nobita once used the pass for free taxi rides, going into pubs, and visiting a famous celebrity's
house. The pass is very expensive and has an expiration date which requires renewal.
• Anything Mine Gas is a gas that makes anything sprayed with it attracted to the sprayer and flee from
anyone else.
• Shocker Gun is a gun that emits a strong electrical beam, powerful enough to bring down a horse.
• Chocolate Heart is heart-shaped chocolate that causes the consumer to have the same idea as, or agree
with, the person who eats the first piece.
• Deep sea cream allows the user to go underwater for extended periods of time without need for air or
insulation from the cold.
• Confessors' Crickets are small robotic crickets which enter a designated target's nostrils and forces the
person to confess everything he/she did wrong--from silly blunders to major crimes. The crickets can only be
expelled from their targets through a forced sneeze induced by pepper.
• Fluffy medicine considerably lightens the weight of the users, allowing them to float into the sky. Taking
too much at once can be disastrous.
• Instant Christmas tree is a Christmas tree that grows instantly when planted. Similar tools include the
instant vine, which grows into the sky moments after planting.
• Cloud hardening gas is a gas which solidifies clouds upon application, allowing the clouds to be walked
upon. Doraemon and his friends once used this gas to construct a cloud city.
• Bamboo horse (ウマタケ Umatake?, A play on takeuma, which means "bamboo stilts") is a hybrid creature
combining the horse and the bamboo, but is highly temperamental. It needs to be fed carrots and cared for to
become loyal. Doraemon gives one to Nobita in order for Nobita to win a stilts walking contest.
• Bird hats are hats shaped like heads of birds. The wearer will have the same ability as the type of bird
worn. For example an owl hat will make the wearer inactive during daytime, while an albatross hat requires
the wearer to sprint before flying.
• Mini-airplanes are miniature toy airplanes (modeled after WWI aircrafts) which can be piloted. The users
shrink themselves down by stepping on the airplane's cockpit, after which they can engage other users in
dogfights. The pilot is automatically ejected with a parachute after their plane is shot down.
• Choto Ma-timer A time stopping Pocket Watch. With a simple touch of its upper button, time freezes
around the user, as another touch restores Time Flow. (Seen on "The Night before the Wedding" Special.)
• Antenna allows the user to be prepared for hazards in advance. For instance, the antenna induced Nobita's
dad (Nobisuke) to bring a spare pair of pants before going out because it knew he will be splashed with water
from a puddle later.
• Anywhere Gas serves the same function as the Anywhere Door except it's in the form of a pink mist
emitted by a machine. It was used once in the "Nobita and the Animal Planet" movie before blowing up at the
end. The product itself was removed from the 22nd Century market due to its instability and customer
complaints.
• Lucky Star An edible Star-Shaped sweet which grants its user 3 hours of striking Luck. Nobita used it to
rescue one of his friends in Nobita and the Animal Planet movie with some cunning and startling luck.
• Lightning cloud is a small floating cloud which unleashes lightning bolts when activated by a pulling
switch. Doraemon gives it to Nobita to help him overcome his fear of thunder. The lightning bolts are not as
strong as the real thing but powerful enough to frighten people and wreak havoc.
• Sticker of truth is a small rubber sticker which can be stuck to anyone in order to make the wearer tell the
truth. Nobita once used it on Suneo because Suneo was flattering people for his own selfish motives.
• Air tubes are nose plugs that allow the user to breathe freely underwater.
• Sea water filter is a straw-like device that instantly filters seawater when the user drinks through it.
• Water pressure gun is the underwater version of the air pressure gun. It was used by Nobita in one story to
fend off a shark attack.
• Weather Machine is used in many episodes to freely control weather. Works by inserting weather cards
into the machine.
• Magic Hands are gloves that, well... It puts your arms to shame. Nobita used them to pick on people
without actually standing next to them.
• Magic Oshiri is a (rubber?) torso which causes pain to that area when spanked. Its like Magic Hands made
for spanking.
• Adaptation beam is another often-used gadget which enables the user to adapt to any kind of hostile
environments, including outer space and deep undersea.
• Shadow separation scissors are scissors which can turn a person's shadows into physical beings which then
can be commanded by its owner. However, the shadow must be "glued" back after a certain amount of time or
it will replace the owner and turn the owner into its shadow.
• Underwater firewood is firewood that can be burned underwater.
• Reverse bulbs are light bulbs which will turn surrounding areas to darkness when switched on.
• Time TV is a portable television which can broadcast events in the past or the future.
• Secret keeping dog is a piggy bank-like dog. The user writes his or her secret on a piece of paper and feed
it to the dog for safekeeping. But when the dog is fed with too many secrets, it will expel all the papers from
its mouth.