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📢  文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 China’s ‘Useless Edison’ combines inventing and the Internet, with hilarious results A Chinese inventor known as “the Useless Edison” has gained a legion of online fans by creating odd gadgets, like a toilet-moped and a butcher-knife phone case. The Washington Post By Anna Fifield Nov 4, 2018 | 1127 words | ★★☆☆☆ His fans call him “The Useless Edison.” But inventor Geng Shuai doesn’t mind. In fact, he kind of likes it. “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 doing this. So it’s useful.”  Every country has its toolshed inventors. But China — which gave the world movable type printing, gunpowder and the compass — has spawned a population of tin ………………………………