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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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  TROY HURTUBISE'S INVENTIONS
Troy Hurtubise has dedicated his life to making humans invincible. His first project was a bear suit. The documentary, Project Grizzly, directed by Peter Lynch, fully details this enthusiastic and dedicated mans talents. Besides the Bear Suit Troy has invented The Trojan a full body ballistic suit of armor, in essences a bulletproof exoskeleton. He has also created high temperature bullet proof materials named Firepaste and 1313 Paste. His Angel Light invention makes objects transparent. This man has no doubt dedicated his life to giving humans super powers.
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Troy Hurtubise's Inventions was voted MORE AWESOME than:
Unibrow  Octo-Stache  The Stig  Deja Vu Ultra Slow Motion The Viking Helmet  Soccer* Hooligans Chindogu Choose Your Own Adventure Books  Tiesto Notorious B.I.G. Doll Rasputin  Male Emperor Penguins  Indy's Whip Troy Hurtubise's Inventions was voted LESS AWESOME than:  Johnny Cash Reliant Robin Teddy Roosevelt Teddy Roosevelt  Library of Congress James Earl Jones Counts to 10 Rockin' Steady
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Troy's Ursa suit is sort of a Chindogu invention. there's no practical reason to ever buy a suit to repel bear attacks. The only person I can think of that would actually buy one is former Awesomeoff contestant Dwight K. Schrute.
This is a difficult decision.
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Yeah, but I don't think Dwight would admit he'd need the suit to fend off a bear? I totally agree though, the concept that a Chindogu 'serves a practical purpose but would cause the user such social embarrassment that they are effecticely useless, totally applies to a guy showing up on the trailhead with Troy's suit on.
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Oh, I think that Dwight would go to whatever lengths necessary to protect himself form a Grizzly. A Brown Bear, he might try to take on himself, but a Grizzly? If you don't have the suit, you could be in serious trouble.
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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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i read the description for this like, 12 times, trying to make sense of it because i thought it said he was trying to make humans invisible.
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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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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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I've seen this guy! I want that suit!
Question.... will it protect me from Laser Bears?
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I really think that the new one might, look him up in YouTube, he just made a new suit that has "Bear Spray" to take out 20-30 guys. That's awesome!
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