30 Stupidest Inventions Ever

Posted by Jill Harness in Advertising, Funny, Gadget, Science & Tech on September 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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10 Useful Inventions That Went Bad

Posted by Miss Cellania in Weapons & War on July 19, 2009 at 8:45 am

Some of the most notorious discoveries and inventions arose by accident, or more commonly, were developed for uses other than what they ended up doing. Listverse looks at ten such products, including trinitrotoluene, a chemical discovered by Joseph Wilbrand in 1863 and meant for use as a yellow dye. With the name shortened to TNT, the explosive was used to wage both world wars. Link -via the Presurfer

 
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Inventions they Said Would Never Work

Posted by Queuebot in Science & Tech on January 11, 2009 at 11:52 pm

What we now take for granted many people once took for granted could never work.

The lightbulb. The telephone. Email. If you’re a specialist in your field, there are two ways to become a household name: create something new…or claim it can never be done. If you want to be remembered on the Internet, choose the second one. Here are 9 examples of breakthroughs, inventions and innovations the experts were completely wrong about.

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