cannot be patented, and is without prejudice. In the media Chindōgu and Kawakami were featured regularly on a children's television show produced by the BBC called It'll Never Work?, a show in a similar vein as the BBC's Tomorrow's World; however, It'll Never Work usually focused more on wacky, humorous gadgets than on serious scientific and technological advances. Kenji Kawakami was visited by Dave Attell during the Sloshed In Translation episode of Insomniac in 2004. Kawakami featured items such as the baby duster, solar flashlight, and a device that would dry your hair with each step you took. See also W. Heath Robinson Jacques Carelman Jugaad, an Indian concept similar to "kludge" Kludge, a clever but inelegant solution to a problem List of Japanese inventions Rube Goldberg Simone Giertz References 101 unuseless Japanese inventions: the art of Chindogu Further reading Fearing Crime, Japanese Wear the Hiding Place, Martin Fackler. The New York Times, October 20, 2007. The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions, Kenji Kawakami, trans. Dan Papia, ed. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Norton: New York, 2005. The Art of Chindogu in a World Gone Mad, David McNeill. August 3, 2005. Analysing Chindogu: Applying Defamiliarisation to Security Design, Shamal Faily. May 5, 2012. External links Chindōgu Society Official Homepage Interview with Kenji Kawakami CHINDOGU: THE UNUSELESS INVENTIONS CHINDOGU: THE UNUSELESS INVENTIONS OF KENJI KAWAKAMI chindogu-art-un-useless-inventions Chindogu: The Art of Un-useless Inventions Unuseless chindogu-14-hilarious-and-strange-japanese-inventions Japanese culture Japanese inventions Critical design Words and phrases with no direct English translation