An invention to keep from splattering your clothes and hair with broth as you slurp your noodles. Also worthwhile if you want your friends to think you are a flower. Chindogu are Japanese inventions ...

Episode: 1460 The little-known Japanese art of Chindogu. Today, the odd Japanese art of Chindogu.

Atoilet-paper roll that you wear on your head as an all-day tissue dispenser. Tiny dustmops for your cat's feet. Shoulder-mounted nets to keep earrings from falling on the ground. What do these items ...

*It's nice to review these tenets periodically, so that one can ensure that one is in fact making "chindogu" rather than, say, device art, installations or diegetic prototypes. *Besides, it's good for ...

JACKSONVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- The professor who dreamed up MacMurray College's Chindogu project admits there might well be a comparison with the "Seinfeld" television shows that had Jerry and George ...

I am talking, of course, about Chindogu or the gentle art of 'Unuseless Inventions' created by Kenji Kawakami. It's all about inventions that, at first glance, look useful, but ultimately fail in a ...

Remember our Chindogu Challenge? KidsPost asked readers to come up with "unuseless inventions" like the ones we wrote about on Jan. 24. The ones in that story were wacky creations, mainly invented in ...

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