'strange invention' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to something that has been created or made but does not seem normal, or has a unique or unexpected design/function. For example, "The scientist's strange invention finally solved the energy crisis."
Shoppers peered at the display, excited but hesitant, as if they'd stumbled upon a trove of strange inventions from a Jules Verne fantasy.
He was notoriously slow, reworking a painting for decades, and constantly distracted by the visionary machines and armaments, the metaphysical and mathematical speculations, the strange inventions, anatomical inquiries and treatises on art for which he is celebrated.
Her German prose is made strange by invention ("heart-beast", "breath-swing").
Despite its distinguished role alongside wensleydale, Roquefort and Venezuelan beaver cheese, that strange 1960s invention Ilchester has also been dropped in the bin.
Reflecting on nearly 120 years of interlocking family histories, Ms. Biran said, "It's hard to imagine what our great-grandparents, who worked together in the fields of Palestine over 100 years ago, would have thought if someone had told them that in four generations their families would unite in yet another new country, thanks to a strange new invention called the Internet".
When thrill-seeking diners book long-distance travel to taste some pathbreaking chef's strange new inventions, their planes land in places like Barcelona or Copenhagen, not Leipzig or Dresden.
In plundering "Paradise Lost," Pullman has made the heretical Milton visible again and resurrected the brilliance of Milton's strange creative inventions, now blurred by the sheer difficulty of reading his poem.
"We remembered how the Istanbul bourgeoisie had trampled over one another to be the first to own a electric shaver, a can opener, a carving knife, and any number of strange and frightening inventions, lacerating their hands and faces as they struggled to learn how to use them," Kemal says in the book.
Here are a few more strange and wonderful inventions from the Far East – this time from the Panasonic Center in Osaka, Japan.
