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19 Reddit comments about 101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions: The Art of Chindogu:

u/thatsSOjamal · 49 pointsr/funny

You would love this book:

101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions: The Art of Chindogu
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393313697/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_4PMXCb33WEZBN

u/MoogieCowser · 19 pointsr/mildlyinteresting

I believe it was something like '50 unuseless inventions'

I liked the baby mop that cleaned while they crawled. They also had a surgical mask where you could smoke like 10 cigarettes at once.

Edit: found it https://www.amazon.com/Unuseless-Japanese-Inventions-Kenji-Kawakami/dp/0393313697

u/Jokey665 · 16 pointsr/funny

There's a book of these. It's pretty great.

u/Twobirdsstonedatonce · 9 pointsr/woahdude

The pictures at the end with weird inventions is all from a book I used to have as a kid called 101 unuseless inventions, http://www.amazon.com/Unuseless-Japanese-Inventions-Kenji-Kawakami/dp/0393313697, great book I remember always cracking up at the ridiculous inventions.

u/Bust_A_Cap · 3 pointsr/pics
u/[deleted] · 3 pointsr/pics

Depending on the definition, the Internet dates back to either 1969 or 1983. The book you're probably referring to came out in 1995.

u/turkey_berzerky · 3 pointsr/funny
u/gfixler · 2 pointsr/offbeat

I have this one, but never got the original. Either way, I feel trapped in the Endless September this morning. Several things on Reddit are really old stuff. The copyright in my aged issue of 99 More... is 1998. That's ten fucking years ago!

u/Arrgh · 2 pointsr/pics

I'm pretty sure this is from the Chindogu book, which is pretty hilarious.

u/schwarzfahrer · 1 pointr/hmmm

I believe this product was featured in this great book https://www.amazon.com/Unuseless-Japanese-Inventions-Kenji-Kawakami/dp/0393313697

u/Bugbread · 1 pointr/mildlyinteresting

This wasn't a shipped product, it was more a joke/art piece. The book was [101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions] (https://www.amazon.com/Unuseless-Japanese-Inventions-Kenji-Kawakami/dp/0393313697), by Kenji Kawakami, who stipulated 10 tenets of his "unuseless inventions" (chindogu). Tenet number 5 is the most germane here:
> Chindogu are not for sale
> If you accept money for your invention, it ceases to be chindogu. You have violated its spirit.

u/Barkblood · 1 pointr/cursedcomments

I’m pretty sure this image is from a book [this one] (https://www.amazon.com/101-Unuseless-Japanese-Inventions-Chindogu/dp/0393313697)
The idea comes from a Japanese custom involving the creation of ridiculous inventions. I spent ages reading it as a child.

u/Tech_Support · 0 pointsr/pics

I think that came from this book (there was another one as well). Both of them are filled with similar stupid/genius ideas.