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    How a welder with a useless invention — a meat cleaver cellphone cover — became an accidental viral video star

    by Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times Dec 10, 2018 6 minutes

    YANG VILLAGE, China - He was an ordinary welder in a boring job. Geng Shuai was about to turn 30 and knew that if he did not find an outlet for his passion to create things, he would be trapped in mediocrity. Then came his Einstein moment, during the mundane chore of cooking.

    After chopping meat and vegetables with a rather blunt cleaver, he was busy cooking when his cellphone rang. When he hung up, he accidentally put the phone down on the cleaver. And on flicked a mental light bulb.

    The shapes synced perfectly.

    "I realized, 'Mmmm, you could make a cellphone cover out of that.'" Cleavers are common in Chinese kitchens, and Geng's family happened to have a lot of old, blunt ones. So he took the leap.

    "I liked it, so I went ahead and made it," he said. "I thought it was quite handy. It was accidental design,

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