Chindōgu

Chindōgu (珍道具?) 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, chindōgu has a distinctive feature: anyone actually attempting to use one of these inventions would find that it causes so many new…

I love this word. I’ll have to remember it and put it into my active vocabulary. I mean this applies to so many things. Heck even some people; just think politicians…

I’m stopping before I go into a vicious rant.