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The Stuff That Is Supposed to Make Our Life Easier But It Doesn't - By Ekaterina Shcherbakova
Chindo-gu (???) is the Japanese art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that, on the face of it, seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem. However, chindo-gu has a distinctive feature: anyone actually attempting to use one of these inventions would find that it causes so many new problems, or such significant social embarrassment, that effectively it has no utility whatsoever. The author cleverly takes us to all the premises of this art as well providing us with witty examples of them.
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