An invention to keep from splattering your clothes and hair with broth as you slurp your noodles. Also worthwhile if you want your friends to think you are a flower. Chindogu are Japanese inventions ...

Episode: 1460 The little-known Japanese art of Chindogu. Today, the odd Japanese art of Chindogu.

*It's nice to review these tenets periodically, so that one can ensure that one is in fact making "chindogu" rather than, say, device art, installations or diegetic prototypes. *Besides, it's good for ...

Is the winter season leaving you with a constant runny nose? The Hay Fever Hat is here to help….or not. “In our world, all technology is progressing, right? So I thought why not take a simple fork and ...

JACKSONVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- The professor who dreamed up MacMurray College's Chindogu project admits there might well be a comparison with the "Seinfeld" television shows that had Jerry and George ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There's an art to inventing useless objects that have no commercial value. At first glance, the diet dish - a bowl sliced in half by a ...

I am talking, of course, about Chindogu or the gentle art of 'Unuseless Inventions' created by Kenji Kawakami. It's all about inventions that, at first glance, look useful, but ultimately fail in a ...