Chindogu

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Chindogu are inventions that are not really useful yet are not completely without use. They make sense, but you’d never use them. They are also, as a result, often really funny.
This chindogu article gives some great examples while also sharing the 10 tenets of what makes chindogu, chindogu. Things like: there must be the spirit of anarchy — they represent freedom of thought and action. And they must exist — just the idea isn’t enough; they must be made.
Apparently, the selfie stick was invented as chindogu but failed as people evidently actually found it useful — though you can still see why it might have started as chindogu.
Also see: affordance, forcing function, and more genius from the Japanese: Tsundoku
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