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Chindōgu (珍道具) is the practice of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that seem to be ideal solutions to particular problems, but which may cause more problems than they solve. The term is of Japanese origin. [1]
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Many parents list special diaper disposal devices among the top most useless baby products. They're not super cheap to start with, often costing upward of $100, and the need to keep buying refill ...
It documents a 30-minute-long causal chain assembled of everyday objects, resembling a Rube Goldberg machine. Turkey – Such devices are known as Zihni Sinir Projeleri, allegedly invented by a certain Professor Zihni Sinir ("Crabby Mind"), a curious scientist character created by İrfan Sayar in 1977 for the cartoon magazine Gırgır. The ...
Vulnerable to air attack, useless to prevent the advance of aircraft Limited use of underground bunkers and civilian air raid shelters; some limited use as fortifications, depending on the military situation at hand. Gunpowder: Smokeless powder, high explosives, dynamite, ANFO: Recreational shooting; historical reenactments.
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4. Pizza Scissors. Forget pizza wheels; these scissors with a built-in spatula are the new way to cut and serve perfect slices. Sure, it may look like overkill, but it combines two tools into one ...
The use of found objects was quickly taken up by the Dada movement, being used by Man Ray and Francis Picabia who combined it with traditional art by sticking combs onto a painting to represent hair. [16] A well-known work by Man Ray is Gift (1921), which is an iron with nails sticking out from its flat underside, thus rendering it useless. [17]