Those eyedrop funnels glasses look really useful. As someone who has a very hard time using eyedrops they might actually help me.
Chindōgu: The Japanese Art of Useless Inventions
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#12We really enjoyed the book "101 unuseless japanese inventions" with our kids when they were growing up, which was the first time I heard about chindogu. It might still make a nice gift for some people, especially adolescents. It seems like the book is available on archive.org https://archive.org/details/101unuselessjapa00kawa
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems like a bunch of people (tried to at least) patent the selfie stick at one or another point. You wouldn't try to patent something you have no interest in earning money from, and is therefore not Chindōgu
Not back then when it wa first mentioned for cameras https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/10/chindogu-japanese-art-...
That site has some cool stories. I didn't know about "The London Beer Flood of 1814" until just now.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2021/12/the-london-beer-flood-...
> The Horse Shoe Brewery was the site of an unusual tragedy. In 1814, several large vats of beer broke releasing a tsunami of fermented porter in the streets, that killed eight people.
> A wave of porter beer 15 feet high swept into New Street, destroying houses and inundating basements.
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#14Reminds me of Bonk Business:
” Bonk Business is a fictional corporation created by Finnish artist and sculptor Alvar Gullichsen. The "products of Bonk Business" are absurd machines, such as the paranormal cannon, that have no apparent use, and which are built by Gullichsen. The story is that Bonk machines are powered by anchovy oil. The works parody corporate and marketing cliches in a retrofuturistic style.”
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#15I simply love every Japanese term starting with "Chin".
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#16There used to be a U.K. TV show (CBBC) based on this
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#17Is this how SkyMall started?
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#18"Strange how much human progress and achievement comes from contemplation of the irrelevant." - Scott Kim
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#19The shoes for stealing pachinko balls are amazing. I thought I could see it coming but I thought he had magnets in those chunky soles.
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#20chopsticks on clothespin seem very useful (at least from the point of view of the two thirds of humanity).