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„People say my inventions are useless, but I think there are two dimensions to usefulness: practicality and amusement,“ said the 30 year old former welder, who left his job last year to focus full time on making his questionable contraptions, such as a motorbike with its own toilet. „I like Canada Goose Jackets doing this. So it’s useful.“
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Geng may now be the best known among them a new kind of social media star whose calling card is his quirkiness.
Standing in his workshop in this tiny village outside Beijing, Geng shows off his inventions. There’s the meat cleaver turned hair comb. And there’s a tennis racket size watermelon slicer.
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No one wanted his water pipe that supposedly filtered toxins out of cigarettes. But the metal nut cannon, which shoots rubber bands, has been one of his bestsellers. He’s sold four.
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