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    CHINDOGU
Kenji Kawakami coined the term Chindogu and inspired a wave of inventions. These inventions or Chindogu seem to be the perfect solution to everyday problems except they aren't. (More Examples) The Ten Tenets of ChindoguFrom 101 UNUSELESS JAPANESE INVENTIONS by Kenji Kawakami
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Chindogu was voted MORE AWESOME than:
 Unibrow  Peekaru  The Viking Helmet  Stinky Cheese  Notorious B.I.G. Doll Chindogu was voted LESS AWESOME than:  Queen of the Mist  Ultra Slow Motion  Troy Hurtubise's Inventions  Gong  Keith Loutit's Little Sydney  Reliant Robin  Teddy Roosevelt  Choose Your Own Adventure Books  Rasputin  Che Guevara  James Earl Jones Counts to 10  Death Star  Mermaids  Rockin' Steady
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  KEITH LOUTIT'S LITTLE SYDNEY
We don't think Keith Loutit invented the concept of tilt shift video, but he has taken it to an amazing level. Basic tilt-shift employs lens-blur, sharpening, and saturation to pull out the subject and give the impression that you are looking through a macro lens to view a model. Keith's choice of subject, camera placements, and his induction of subtle time lapse makes his creations come to life in unbelievable fashion.
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Keith Loutit's Little Sydney was voted MORE AWESOME than:
Unibrow Peekaru Gong  Soccer* Hooligans Stinky Cheese Chindogu Notorious B.I.G. Doll Keith Loutit's Little Sydney was voted LESS AWESOME than:  The Stig Queen of the Mist  Deja Vu  Johnny Cash Reliant Robin  Library of Congress Rasputin Che Guevara James Earl Jones Counts to 10  The Disintegrator: Rubber Band Minigun Death Star  Male Emperor Penguins  Indy's Whip
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Great new video for Chindogu. I especially like the Pachinko shoes.
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I see a Bukowski-like turn-around coming with the new video.
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yah the video helps A real lot....
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It's something real painstakingly made to look like a fake of something real. That is awesome.
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It's not just the scissors- it's an art form of making useful inventions that just will never really be produced...I saw in a Chindogu book a device for collecting leftover bits of soap that will compress them into a new bar of soap; a few years later some company actually started making them in the US and it was subsequently taken out of the Chindogu books. That's dedication.
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I've seen some awesome tilt shift photos on Flickr, but this video isn't doing much for me. Maybe the nominee should have been Tilt Shift Photography?
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Yeah, we thought about that. I think one thing we need to add is the ability for multiple videos, so the concept would not be limited to one implementation
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Uhhhmmm, I don't want to sell the awesomeness of Chindogu short but...scissors? I'm getting the feeling there's more to these "inventions", but just not picking it up...
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I don't know much about Chindogu itself, but those scissors look like a pair of "shredder scissors". I have a knock-off with more blades than the one in the picture. It was marketed as a low-cost alternative to a shreader, but it just takes ten times as long and is ten times as messy.
Shredder Scissors-good idea, except it doesn't work. Which I guess is the definition of Chindogu. It would be nice to see more examples, though.
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Thanks - I don't believe I've ever seen "shredder scissors", but after your description and looking again at the pic, I think you're right. I guess the CONCEPT of a simple manual device that accomplishes the same task as a complicated, (relatively) expensive electronic gadget is pretty awesome...if it worked well!
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I think we are still trying to get some more photos we have the rights to use. Chindogu is definitely awesome and hilarious, we better polish it off quick!
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New MAP right here. I think that no one really cares enough about this to oppose this
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Japanese scissors? Is that what I'm voting on here? Can anyone explain?
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