12 Wacky Asian Inventions

[Toronto]

http://www.xfm.net/posts/29

[bmagni]

wacky ?? more like stooooopid

[Erez]

:roll: yeah.. i dont think they're gonna be selling the patent soon... :roll: :lol:
nice find Toronto :lol:

[Mattk]

Yes, they're all quite stupid, but then again, I think that was the point. Take some scientists, get them drunk, and who knows what they'll come up with?

[Chaos in 1983!]

ROTFLMAO...that´s fucking hillarious! The Swiss Army knife style farm tool is the stupidest of all....

well it could make more sense than the see plants grow one.... now that is just completely idiotic. :D

[Everlasting]

cool

[RF1]

stupid things...

:) buy funny

[irrational_i]

uhm. I am not too sure this is supposed to be funny.
There is a Japanese thing - kind of like a sport - where you have to create a useful/useless object.
In other words it has to be something you can use, yet at the same time it is not something you'd use.
Really tricky thing. I don't have the time to research the thing now. But its all stuff like this.

[irrational_i]

Okay a 2 second google search! 8P

Its called Chindogu.
The english name is "Unuseless".
And a rule: "humour must not be the sole reason for creating chindogu"
You'll see its actually very hard to make one and follow all the rules.

Here are pages with info.
Chindogu history (http://www.designboom.com/history/useless.html)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chindogu)

The site above is an example if Chindogu.
Have fun finding more or inventing your own. 8P

[DeMoN]

oh my gawd!!!! cant fuxing believe this lolololol

[dutchmasterflex]

And this is a prime example of why the Japanese do not have many World Champion drivers... :lol: