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Inspiration: Tenets Of Useless Inventions

Inspiration: Tenets Of Useless Inventions

By Guy Brighton on July 27, 2005

‘chindogu’ is the japanese word coined for the art of the unuseless idea. These overtly practical yet rather eccentric inventions for a life of ease have taken Japan by storm.

With the intentions to solve the niggling problems of modern life, these bizarre and logic-defying gadgets and gizmos have a tendency to fail completely. Addicts of the unuseless all over the world love this collection.

10 Tenets Of Useless Inventions

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