Via Giavasan, an interesting and funny book coming from Switzerland: umdenken. It’s a collection of weird objects, usefule/useless inventions.
In Japan, this is called Chindogu (as explained by Giavasan): art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets.

I think the swiss have made the greatest contributions to the gadget world. I mean, Swiss Army knife, anyone?
Swiss Gadgets
http://www.swissgadgets.com