Innovative Products From the Past That Never Were



We can always dream up new products that make life easier, no matter how difficult they would be to actually produce. In 1939, Popular Science predicted that we would one day received newspapers printed at home with data transferred by radio broadcasts. That particular invention never came to be, at least in the sense it was envisioned at the time. Why print out the news when you can just read it on your computer screen? This item is one of nine products that were never developed, although some of the end results came to us by other inventions. Link -via Dark Roasted Blend

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"That particular invention never came to be, at least in the sense it was envisioned at the time."

I print out articles all the time through wi-fi connections (which uses radio waves). I'd say they were spot-on. All they missed was the cool wooden box that houses the unit.
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