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30 Stupidest Inventions Ever

By Jill Harness in Advertising, Funny, Gadget, Science & Tech on Sep 28, 2009 at 3:55 pm


dumb Life Magazine has a hilarious post up featuring what they consider to be the 30 dumbest inventions of all time. When you look through the list, filled with things like the shower hat to the right, you actually start to get an appreciation for things like the Snuggie.

Almost all of the inventions are from the sixties or before, so it’s not too shocking that many of them involve cigarettes, including a method for a couple to share a smoke and one for a person to smoke a whole pack at once -oh joy!

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  1. nemo
    Sep 28th, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    Some of these were seriously dumb, but the Rocket Belt? It's a Jet Pack. How can Jet Packs not be brilliant awesome genius?

  2. Susano
    Sep 28th, 2009 at 8:23 pm

    Some of the inventions are silly (I won't say dumb), but some were invented for reasons not readily apparent. The Germans created the curved gun barrel so you could fire at infantry around your tank through a vision block. It was also used for house-to-house fighting (complete with sight that let you see around the corner).

    The mini TV and the TV glasses look like stuff we have today (iPod anyone?) while the rocket pack was considered a viable method of infantry transport for a while. There's a working Birdman suit now (didn't Neatorama feature it?) and I'll bet the flying platform ended up as the basis for NASA's lunar lander test vehicle. Oh, and I think we call the external turkey roaster a rotisserie cooker these days.

  3. dwaynex
    Sep 29th, 2009 at 8:46 am

    The gun that shoots around corners is making a comeback. The Israelis have a rifle that breaks in the middle (really a pistol on a stock) with an attached mirror and laser site for the same purpose. Also the U.S. is developing a scope with remote eyepiece that allows a soldier to hold their weapon over a wall or around a corner for observation.

  4. MadMolecule
    Sep 29th, 2009 at 10:22 am

    The lighted tires (#12) are COMPLETELY AWESOME.

  5. Gauldar
    Sep 29th, 2009 at 10:40 am

    Sure, until the bulb burns out or gets loose after hitting a bump which requires you to take off the tire.

  6. Robert
    Sep 29th, 2009 at 10:46 am

    Haha yes, lighted tires.

  7. johnnybluejeans
    Sep 29th, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    I'll take a motorized surfboard! (or Jet ski as we call them today). Also I think having guys in suits demonstrating water inventions is a great idea.

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