The NYT has this artice about Aya Tsukioka, a Japanese fashion designer, and her unusual designs to disguise a person on the street against crime. There is her convertible skirt to vending machine, as well as a little kid's backpack that turns into fire extinguiser thing. (side note: these are the cutest little backpacks ever invented, all the elementary aged kids in Japan wear them, normal ones that is, not convertable ones)
These inventions are part of the Japanese category of inventions called Chindogu, or “queer tools."
Here's some more really entertaining designs by other people...
little mops for kitty feet...chopstick fan to cool off your noodles...toilet paper headband for your allergies
Pehaps the best part of these inventions are the International Chindogu Society's "Ten Tenents of Chindogu"
for more Chindogus,
check out the International Chindogu Society website haha
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