{"id":33190,"date":"2022-01-20T16:10:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T16:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.blog\/?p=33190"},"modified":"2022-01-20T16:10:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T16:10:45","slug":"a-combination-piano-bbq-grill-and-three-wheeled-car-why-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/01\/20\/a-combination-piano-bbq-grill-and-three-wheeled-car-why-not\/","title":{"rendered":"A combination piano, BBQ grill and three-wheeled car? Why not!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ENG) \u786c\u6838\u81ea\u88fd\u92fc\u7434\u70e4\u4e32\u8eca How to Transform a PIANO into a BBQ CAR\u3010\u624b\u5de5\u803fHandy Geng\u3011\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nv_FcwtBLJQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-d02da0a2-8fe3-4835-afeb-e4319404e053\">In case you like to play the piano, but also want to grill some shishkebabs at the same time, and want to drive around as well, <a href=\"https:\/\/jalopnik.com\/the-piano-grill-car-is-the-automobile-s-final-form-we-1848039790\">this creative inventor has just the solution<\/a> &#8212; a piano with 52 individual motors connecting the keys to spits, with an internal firepit and three motorized wheels. Spectacularly useless? Definitely. And why did this man create such a thing? Because he could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-be745622-cd2d-482a-b11b-83306c1a0178\">Turns out our artist\/inventor is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCEvlIrEAqIfOcvr9Qc8jquw\">Geng Shuai, also known as &#8220;Handy Geng,&#8221;<\/a> a Chinese YouTuber whose fans call him &#8220;Useless Einstein&#8221; (if that&#8217;s what your fans call you, imagine what others call you!). He got the idea for the piano-grill-car &#8212; Grillano? &#8212; from a reader comment. In case you are in the market, he also makes phone cases <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/chinas-useless-edison-combines-inventing-and-the-internet-with-hilarious-results\/2018\/11\/02\/43fbcb8a-d6e0-11e8-8384-bcc5492fef49_story.html\">that look like meat cleavers<\/a>, of which he has sold 10. And he made a driveable mech with tractor treads and hydraulic arms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ENG)\u81ea\u88fd\u5b89\u4fdd\u5de1\u908f\u6a5f\u7532 Homemade Security Patrol Mech\u3010\u624b\u5de5\u803fHandy Geng\u3011\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mrPcFiGEnoE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-b96b03bc-b733-4f0d-a74e-00fa73a79300\">On a related note, there is a Japanese term, &#8220;chindogu,&#8221; which <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chind%C5%8Dgu\">loosely translated means &#8220;useless tool,&#8221;<\/a> and covers an entire category of inventions that solve prosaic problems in an overly engineered way. Examples include the &#8220;noodle cooler&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"block-02f4bce5-933f-47bc-9cb6-695905a26c9c\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/files.tofugu.com\/articles\/japan\/2016-03-14-chindogu-japanese-inventions\/noodle-cooler.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"chindogu chopsticks with fan attached\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you like to play the piano, but also want to grill some shishkebabs at the same time, and want to drive around as well, this creative inventor has just the solution &#8212; a piano with 52 individual motors connecting the keys to spits, with an internal firepit and three motorized wheels. Spectacularly useless? &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/01\/20\/a-combination-piano-bbq-grill-and-three-wheeled-car-why-not\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A combination piano, BBQ grill and three-wheeled car? Why not!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}