I remember years ago seeing a book called 101 useless japanese inventions. There were som pretty bad ones, such as a helmet you wear that has a roll of toiler paper on it so when you have to blow your nose you just roll it down.
Apparently amazon has a couple pages of it scanned for everyones pleasure.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0393...38#reader-page
And a Sequel!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0393...38#reader-link
Sorry halx, your snowballer just cant compete with that useless crap.