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This gets quite close to chindogu, the Japanese art of designing objects that kind of serve a very niche purpose, but then without being useful. https://www.tof
by AriedK 6mo ago
This gets quite close to chindogu, the Japanese art of designing objects that kind of serve a very niche purpose, but then without being useful.
https://www.tofugu.com/japan/chindogu-japanese-inventions/ https://www.tofugu.com/japan/chindogu-japanese-inventions/
- Nevermark 6mo agoi need a roller desk EV.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6mo agoI like the iPhone Control Center screenshot in there…
- TeMPOraL 6mo agoFunny how some of those ideas are obviously useful, some I even see in stores... and then turns out the selfie stick is an example too, which makes one question the whole categorization.
- cucumber3732842 6mo agoI would spend an extra $0.20/lb if my butter came in a stick (though I think the form factor should emulate deodorant and not chapstick) and would shamelessly rock the umbrella tie.
- bombela 6mo agoButter already comes in a stick. It's called a butter stick! Peel the wrapping from one end; and just like that; you got a big butter stick-stick! Is it time to model and 3D print a butter-stick stick-pusher? With a little battery and heating coil at the sticking out end. Getting a slightly soft and sticky enough butter out of the butter-stick-stick without it sticking to the stick? What a buttery sticky thought.
- thenthenthen 6mo agoEvery few years something like this surfaces, i think mostly completely isolated from Chindogu and about 50% are renders. I honestly think there is something humbling, or “un-uselessness” in making a physical object thoughto both the intended audience and creator.