The trash masher has long had the reputation for being the most useless kitchen appliance. It's a multi-hundred-dollar device which converts 50 pounds of garbage... into 50 pounds of garbage.

The Japanese may have created a mate for it: Yuki-taro.

Meet Yuki-taro, a Japanese robot built to quickly clear roads after heavy snows.

The cute little guy, about 5 feet long and 2 and a half feet high, simply plows into snowbanks, taking in the white stuff, compressing it and neatly stacking it in two-foot-long bricks on his rear bed.

Except that when he gets done, the road isn't clear. Instead of being covered with snow, it's covered with 2 foot long bricks of ice. How, exactly, is this an improvement?

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Weird World at 11:59 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment
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