Comments on: Useless Japanese Inventions

By: ha!

ha! — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:28:14 +0000

haha!!! useful but stupid

By: Forget Inspiration: Innovation-capable cultures demand respiration « OnInnovation Blog

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:21:48 +0000

[...] novel solution resulting in the generation of value. Take the wonderful inventiveness on display in Japan. Not that this country is the only home of the wacky idea , but they seem to offer the best [...]

By: Minnie Mouse

Minnie Mouse — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:42:58 +0000

Umm…yea…this stuff is Really Weird! :p But still its really funny! stupidly funny!! Haha LOL

By: sk8r4lyf

sk8r4lyf — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:21:39 +0000

this is really weird i cant believe people wasted time thinking about these things

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:32:29 +0000

Will this save lives?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:31:31 +0000

Some of these things are crappy as!

By: mark

mark — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:34:22 +0000

theye would be good if theye looked better I bet

By: mark

mark — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:34:30 +0000

very cool but pointless

By: Aerii

Aerii — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:30:17 +0000

The 360 degree panoramic camera is pretty cool and might actually be useful. In fact, all of these could be very, very useful. None are actually useless. They just look stupid is all. They need to perfect the appearance aspect.

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Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:02:51 +0000

[...] might end up being a bit tricky but how about creating useless or bizarre gadgets? Stuff like this [...]

By: D14- Innovation versus Invention « Apin Talisayon’s Weblog

D14- Innovation versus Invention « Apin Talisayon’s Weblog — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:55:03 +0000

[...] An invention is novel but can be useless. Have a laugh: look at some examples of useless Japanese inventions (click here). [...]

By: USELESS INVENTION: when creativity runs wild « alessordinary

USELESS INVENTION: when creativity runs wild « alessordinary — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:57:49 +0000

[...] A compilation of useless inventions by the Japanese. I wonder who uses them except for the inventors themselves. Picture on the right shows a solar powered lighter. (via hemmy.net) [...]

By: Shizzy

Shizzy — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:12:54 +0000

heh! those are funny. i would by the rain saver, just for the fun of it, but only for a buck. lol! i gotta say, the japanese people come up with the most screwed ideas.

By: Thursday, April 17, 2008 | Scruw; It's Twist'd

Thursday, April 17, 2008 | Scruw; It's Twist'd — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:37:39 +0000

[...] When it comes to Japanese television it’s just plain weird, but when they invent things its ev… [...]

By: oooooh la la

oooooh la la — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:21:55 +0000

thats is pretty lame if you ask me! haha but funny and stupid!!:)

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Cuts Like a Knife: The Sharper Image Hits the Skids — FiLife — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:56:28 +0000

[...] Sharper Image was the future in your hands. Scratch that–it was better: It was like having Japan in the palm of your hands. Senseless gadgets that had no reason to exist other than because founder [...]

By: bob

bob — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:14:18 +0000

This is weird

By: at unsleepable

at unsleepable — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:17:28 +0000

[...] USELESS japanese inventions A few god awful inventions from the book Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions. They really should open up a shop with these. [...]

By: random ramblings » Blog Archive » Kino Trip Part 1: Amazing Inventions

random ramblings » Blog Archive » Kino Trip Part 1: Amazing Inventions — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:00:15 +0000

[...] Last weekend me and Yerrow Yallow visited Little Tokyo because she wants more manga and I want more pens… Yes I have this weird fascination with G-tec pens. Actually, I really love them so much I bought like 2 dz of black refills and 1 dz red refill that I had shipped from the Philippines… Or was it Taiwan… ._. I forgot where I placed the receipt. Anyway, yes I wanted more upon learning that there are more than black, blue and red colors. I don’t put them on display ~_~ I use them and I use them a lot because I write a lot. Getting back on track, xD~ We first visited a rooftop Japanese Garden. It was rather small than we expected but it was pretty. I wanted to take some pictures of it but unfortunately I’m such a genius that I forgot my camera at home. Fun isn’t? Now I wanted to visit a Zen Garden… *looks at Yerrow Yallow* After the garden we went straight to Kino. While browsing the shop, I noticed that there we’re a couple of kids (non-asian) who we’re wearing those Naruto headbands and pestering the other customers because they can’t read japanese characters… *Sighs* For some reason or another I am actually embarassed for them. I don’t think I’ll ever have the guts to wear something like that on public not unless I’m cosplaying. Then again I’m shy to cosplay… More of like I’d rather not scare the little kids away… xD~ We also found hair magazines and nail magazines…Unfortunately for me, the hair cuts in the hair magazine have bangs in it and I don’t like bangs coz it makes my face itchy ;_; and the nail magazine… well the price is too much for me. D: Oh another interesting find was book about failed Japanese inventions. Some are… (I’ll make up the names because I didn’t get them xD) a lip stick stencil – where you place the stencil in your mouth to prevent misses when putting on your lipstick ( err… ) cockroach swatting slippers – where there are handles at end of your slippers and use it to whack away bugs ( +_+ i wonder if the one who invented it have a hard time walking with two sticks extending from the end of his/her slippers) a smoke mask – where a gas mask infused with holes so you can smoke more than one cigarette (talk about being high on nicotine… ewww) Nose Plug in – where you plug your nose with a erm plugger (lol) with screens so that your nose will not gather dusts ( lawl the person looked like he has mini gas mask up her nose) 360 degree panoramic camera – it’s just a bunch of camera turned into one err hat around your head… 10 in one gardening tool – talk about one big army swiss knife the noodle eater’s hair guard – imagine those cones for the dogs except it’s for humans… lol and Azu’s favorite… a plunger with a handle that you can use when you ride a train or bus, and there’s like not enough space or you can’t reach the handle bars… some pictures founds here [...]

By: Armida Alfaro

Armida Alfaro — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:56:29 +0000

I think they’re amazing, you know, nowadays everithing the humans do, sells by itself. Always there’s going to be someone who says, it’s helpful for me.