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Zoom Meeting Escape Gadget, Unflattering-Angle Selfie Stick, Painful Lego-Soled Sandals and Other "Wasted Creations"

Marina Fujiwara's muda-zukuri bizarre inventions

By Rain Noe - May 4, 2020

in Object Culture

Guided by the motto "Let's Make USELESS Machines," Japanese artist Marina Fujiwara creates muda-zukuri. Not quite the same as chindogu ("unuseless inventions"), muda-zukuri translates roughly as "wasted creations." For example, here's her DIY gadget for getting out of Zoom meetings:

A selfie stick that shoots you from unflattering angles:

A wearable roll-out-the-red-carpet machine:

Sandles with no soles, just painful Lego pieces:

A machine that motivates you to work with the scent of money:

If you think she's knocking off Simone Giertz, it's worth nothing that Fujiwara started her muda-zukuri-based YouTube channel in 2013, a year before Giertz's 2014 YouTube debut.

Check out more of Fujiwara's bizarre inventions on her Instagram.

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