Chindogu: almost useful stuff

http://www.chindogu.com/

I love this site because it highlights things that are inherently ridiculous but were actually meant to be useful. According to the tenets of the International Chindogu Society, a chindogu ("weird tool" in Japanese) is almost useless. For example, any lazy bum can appreciate the thought behind putting a cat to work by fitting it with dust slippers, but would anyone actually do that? Or my other favorite, butter that can be applied from a stick, with the ability to turn a dial to get more butter. When I first saw this I actually thought, what a great idea! But then I imagined my two-year-old daughter trying to attach pictures to construction paper with butter, or worse, thinking that it's OK to eat anything that comes out of any roll-on stick. Maybe our household should stick with less confusing inventions like the automatic noodle cooler, which seems so much more efficient than blowing it with your own hot air.