Chindogu

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The spirit of a silly thing is always more delightful than the nonsense wrapped in a grand package. Would you rather use a Chindogu or read a business report?

Chindogu means a strange tool in Japanese, which is suitably useless (or unuseless) to the strange modern life indeed. Yet, according to one of its tenets, a Chindogu must exist — in order to be useless, it must first be. Ah!

Perhaps a Chindogu aims not at solving a particular problem, but at exposing the perplexity of human existence — a geeky adaptation of Zen koans.

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