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Museum of Possibilities

Capt'n Midnight · 2011-10-10 21:56:48

A little bit like the Japanese Chindogu The rules of chindogu are simple. A chindogu must be both useless and useful at the same time, chindogu must have a real purpose (other than making people laugh) but also be completely unusable. A real prototype of the invention must be made for it to be called chindogu.…

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A little bit like the Japanese Chindogu
The rules of chindogu are simple. A chindogu must be both useless and useful at the same time, chindogu must have a real purpose (other than making people laugh) but also be completely unusable. A real prototype of the invention must be made for it to be called chindogu.

http://www.neatorama.com/category/features/museum-of-possibilities/
these are inventions that aren't quite right, but might give you some ideas
"Inventions that are (thankfully, always) around the corner.

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