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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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  ULTRA SLOW MOTION
Cameras are now capable of recording 1000x slower then normal. These ultra-slow motion video is giving man a new perspective of the world around us. From sneezing to bullets, balloons popping to face slapping....it's fun to watch and seems to go well with opera. There is a lot to see in the worlds of science and awe.
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Ultra Slow Motion was voted MORE AWESOME than:
Unibrow  Octo-Stache  The Stig Gong Chindogu Choose Your Own Adventure Books  Tiesto Notorious B.I.G. Doll  The Disintegrator: Rubber Band Minigun Mermaids  Male Emperor Penguins Ultra Slow Motion was voted LESS AWESOME than: Troy Hurtubise's Inventions The Viking Helmet  Johnny Cash Teddy Roosevelt  Library of Congress Rasputin James Earl Jones Counts to 10 Death Star  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 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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Just for clarification purposes, am I voting for Ultra Slow Motion in general or specifically Sneezing in Ultra Slow Motion? Because the former truly is awesome while the latter is pretty goddamn gross. But maybe a tiny bit awesome too.
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For much of this clip one thing comes to mind: la petite mort? Then they photoshop in all the mucous and...I guess la petite mort is still appropriate...but not terribly awesome
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