Hilarious Chindogu video below.
What is Chindogu? I didn’t know either, but I sure like this.
ChindÅgu (çé“å…·?) is the Japanese art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that, on the face of it, seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem. However, ChindÅgu has a distinctive feature: anyone actually attempting to use one of these inventions, would find that it causes so many new problems, or such significant social embarrassment, that effectively it has no utility whatsoever. Thus, ChindÅgu are sometimes described as ‘unuseless’ – that is, they cannot be regarded as ‘useless’ in an absolute sense, since they do actually solve a problem; however, in practical terms, they cannot positively be called ‘useful’.
My favorite is the first one…the shoe umbrellas.
Got it from PT.
2 responses so far ↓
1 DJ // Oct 10, 2008 at 1:03 am
Okay, so what’s this deal with Japanese TV showing hot models’ reactions in the box in the corner? I mean, it’s kind of annoying. But, then, it’s also kind of hot!
Does Korean or Chinese TV do anything like this?
2 Brian // Oct 10, 2008 at 7:11 am
Those Pachinko shoes are a good idea, though.
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