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Spike vest protects your personal space on commuter trains

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How do you get people to respect your personal space while on the train? I find that having angry arguments with imaginary people tends to do the trick. But it does take work. If you’d rather take a passive approach, you can wear Siew Ming Cheng’s Spike Away vest.

Ms. Cheng made it in college for a class project. Her task was to invent a “chindogu”—a Japanese term for an object that solves one ordinary problem, but is otherwise useless.
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