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The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions By: Kenji Kawakmi translated by: Dan Papia
Non-Fiction: humor 303 pages
This book is all about Chindogu, which is a word invented by the author to explain inventions that are real, work, seam like a good idea at the time, but are for all practical purposes useless. These are things like a solar powered flashlight and a giant Swiss Army Knife like tool for gardening. This book looks at 200 such things including a picture or two of the item working and information on it. Most of the items were comically useless. One or two had a note that they may not be Chindogu as they have heard of people actually selling the item which makes it no longer a Chindogu. One thing, the telescoping spoon, actually seamed like a useful thing. There is also an International Chindogu Society made up of people that make these things for fun.
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