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  2. List of obsolete technology - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of obsolete technology, superseded by newer technologies. Obsolescence is defined as the "transition from available to unavailable from the manufacturer in accordance with the original specification." [1] Newer technologies can mostly be considered as disruptive innovation. Many older technologies co-exist with newer alternatives ...

  3. Chindōgu - Wikipedia

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    In the magazine, Kawakami used his spare pages to showcase several bizarre prototypes for products. He named these gadgets "chindōgu"; Kawakami himself said that a more appropriate translation than "unusual tool" is "weird tool". This special category of inventions subsequently became familiar to the Japanese people.

  4. Useless invention - Wikipedia

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    Useless invention may refer to: An invention that is nonpatentable due to its lack of utility; Chindōgu; Useless machine; Rube Goldberg invention

  5. Here are the top 5 most useless gadgets ever made - AOL

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    If you thought the apps in the video were useless, these gadgets are way beyond recovery. 1) The Useless Box:

  6. FarmVille makes TIME Magazine's Top 50 Worst Inventions List

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    TIME Magazine has released its list of "50 Worst Inventions" and somehow FarmVille has made the list of one of the fifty! The list of fifty worst inventions is compiled of "the world's bright ...

  7. 19 Accidental Inventions That We Can't Live Without Now - AOL

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    5. Play-Doh. Who: Kay Zufall, Brian, Joseph McVicker, Bill Rhodenbaugh When: 1956 . How it was created: The gooey toy kids have been playing with for decades began as a household cleaning product ...

  8. Wikipedia:Unusual articles/Technology, inventions and ...

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    Useless machine: In most cases, toys for adults. Vin Mariani: A drink made from cocaine and consumed by Thomas Edison, Pope Leo XIII, Ulysses S. Grant and French prime minister Jules Méline. Violence and Lego: Fortunately, not actual violence, but rather an observed increase of weapon bricks within the toy brand. Wrap rage

  9. The art of useless machines - AOL

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    But we were more than happy to find a website of Japanese designers who, in the tradition of Chindogu (the art of useless inventions), have created Maywa Denki — an art collective dedicated to ...