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Straight up? DIY colonoscopy among weird science at Tokyo show

A doctor demonstrates how the DIY colonoscopy tube functions [courtesy].

A gadget to "translate" dog barks for humans, a "babypod" that plays music inside the mother's vagina for unborn babies and the world's first self-colonoscopy method were among the whacky inventions on show Friday at a new Tokyo exhibition.

The museum celebrates weird and wonderful inventions created by real scientists for the Ig Nobel Prize -- or "anti-Nobels" -- designed to make people "laugh first and think later."

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