Have you ever heard someone use the term, chindōgu? This Japanese term literally translates to unusual tool. These are tools that might be useful and work, but they are strange and impractical. Kenji ...

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Trying to imagine life in the distant future means accepting one simple truth: the world will demand solutions to problems that don’t even exist yet. As technology pushes further into uncharted ...

Fad Diet founder Tom Nardone discovers unusual and bizarre diet inventions that have received US patents. Nardone's also created other quirky websites, including Gingerbread Ghetto , showing the silly ...

Hundreds of thousands of patents are issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for new inventions every year. Some of these creations, such as the lightbulb, personal computer, and automobile, ...

But despite the countless numbers of interesting, useful, and even groundbreaking inventions on the market, many other bizarre creations in history barely made it beyond their initial prototypes.