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Kitagawa, who found a use for the useless, wins the Nobel Prize
- burnt-resistor 1y agoI was hoping it was for Chindōgu, but no, it's the other way around. https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/10/chindogu-japanese-art-of-unuseless.html https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/10/chindogu-japanese-art-...
- NetMageSCW 1y agoThat would seem to deserve its own post.
- y-curious 1y agoThanks for sharing, this reminds me of the annual Google Japan inventions. Here’s one from 2 weeks ago: https://youtu.be/BgdWyD0cBx4?si=0rxD23T1JQ5PfOeR https://youtu.be/BgdWyD0cBx4?si=0rxD23T1JQ5PfOeR
- burnt-resistor 1y agoLmao. Cool. Finally, there's a cat-step-proof keyboard! Btw, the ?si=... part is a tracking link cookie that uniquely identifies you to Google for their analytics. Delete it and the link will still work. :)
- flykespice 1y agoFor a moment I thought the domain belonged to Asahi Linux and they spun off to a news website.
- ChrisArchitect 1y agoRelated: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45514164 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45514164