Unuseless Tie.

This app does practically nothing. You may think of it as a design experiment. I prefer the word Unuseless. You may think its a bad joke but it isn't. It's an attempt to create something that is neither useful or useless. Its based on Chindogu which in Japanese means 'weird tool.'

The term Chindogu was first coined in the 1990's by Kenji Kawakami. Find out more about Chindogu here: https://chindogu.com/ics/

The concept has become popular as a means of liberating designers from real problem solving, to solving problems in imaginative ways that don't really exist. Design workshops have sprung up where people try to make Unuseless designs, something which is rather harder than you might think. Books have been published illustrating a lively community of Chindogu makers.

All Chindogu prototypes must comply with the ten tenets of Chindogu.

Full details are here: https://chindogu.com/ics/?page_id=336

1. All Chindogu inventions must be almost completely useless.

2. They must be made. A Chindogu concept on paper does not count.

3. They represent freedom of thought and action.

4. Chindogu should be understandable to everyone everywhere.

5. You must not make money from Chindogu.

6. Humor is simply the by-product of finding an elaborate or unconventional solution to a problem not the goal.

7. Chindogu are innocent. Make them with the best intentions

8. Cheap sexual innuendo, humor of a vulgar nature, and sick or cruel jokes that debase the sanctity of living things are not allowed.

9. Chindogu are offerings to the rest of the world. They are not therefore ideas to be copyrighted, patented, collected, and owned.

10. All should have a free and equal chance to enjoy each and every Chindogu.

The story behind Chindogu Tie is here https://unuseless.co.uk/

To my knowledge no-one has created a Chindogu app before so this may be the first. If you have a better idea for a Unuseless app then make it and let me know.

Happy Unuseless App making

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