30 Dumbest Inventions

[SirStev0]

I was banking on this being a cracked article. Since it isn't, I am going to quietly collect my things and go see if cracked has a better list.

 

[Mucho]

Some of those stuff are really awesome.

 

[sandorski]

hehe, nice.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

The L Ron Hubbard thingy was kinda weird. It says that tomatoes scream when sliced--or when probes are jammed in them. WTH!

Well, they don't literally scream, but every living organism does indeed make a response to things that injure it, translated into something with a mouth, it's a scream.

 

[Sphexi]

http://www.life.com/image/3136964/in-gallery/25371/30-dumb-inventions

See, Michael Jackson was completely sane, dangling babies out of windows and over balconies is totally cool.

 

[El Guaraguao]

lmfao fast draw robot.

 

[marvdmartian]

Not surprisingly, the one with L. Ron Hubbard does much to explain the foolishness of Scientology.

 

[Lvis]

I saw a powered surf board once back in the 80's. The guy on it looked to be having a great time.

 

[Jeff7]

Not surprisingly, the one with L. Ron Hubbard does much to explain the foolishness of Scientology.

And the sad thing is, the craziest people seem to get followers easier than sane ones.

 

[coloumb]

lol at the baby invention - maybe something michael jackson would've used?

mini-tv and tv glasses are dumb? Aren't videos on your cell phone and 3d glasses basically the same thing?

 

[DrPizza]

I disagree on the birdman suit - it just hadn't been perfected yet. There are quite a few videos out there of successful suits - for fun, or for military use.

p.s. that's a hint for other inventors: form an LLC, then have someone ELSE try out your invention. Ooops, back to the drawing board.

 

[geno]

TV glasses...that picture is so fucking absurd I just have to laugh.

 

[Old Hippie]

My parents bought this 4" Sony TV for my birthday in '65.

It wasn't as small as that mini-TV but it did make it to market.....for a little while.

 

[darkxshade]

fast draw robot D:

 

[geno]

I used to have this book and it was full of dumb inventions that made some of the ones in the OP look genius.

 

[darkxshade]

I used to have this book and it was full of dumb inventions that made some of the ones in the OP look genius.

Japanese Inventions...

I think they get a pass because it's part of their culture.

 

[runzwithsizorz]

I question if the writers of that article understand why the curved barrel machine gun was developed...

Despite the obvious advantage of being able to shoot around a corner without being exposed, it wasn't developed for that.

It was developed for tankers to spray down the outside of their tanks when enemy soldiers (particularly Soviets) were climbing onto their vehicles. iirc, it was developed for a particular tank/apc that they forgot to put a machine gun on for vehicles to support each other.

Likewise, I think the illuminated tires are cool.
Also, how is a mini-TV dumb? Isn't that what our cell phones have become now?

The new modern version, now being issued to "spray down" YOU.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C0FQPk5mv0

 

[MrPickins]

The rocket belt may be pointless, but it is still awesome.

 

[caddlad]

Baybee cage!

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

The new modern version, now being issued to "spray down" YOU.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C0FQPk5mv0

rofl@ the video comments.

dude.. if everyone has this... then the world will die in bout 3 weeks.. those who are rich will die becuz the poor just shoot out of a box with this thing... this shouldn't be used by anyone.. so it can't be used by the wrong ones..

didn't you read what he said. the poor ppl can shoot out of a box with this holy fuck run for ur life!

 

[0roo0roo]

kinda fail for leaving out the xray based shoe sizing device

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undark

 

[eLiu]

It's all a matter of timing. While it was a dumb invention in 1960 look at today's world and the stupid shit ricers and other groups of people put on their cars. They would sell today.

The laryngophone technology was actually widely used by the Germans in the 30's and through WWII. They used laryngomicrophone collars in all their armored vehicles as a way to minimize the affects of ambient noise levels which were extremely high in such vehicles.

damnit, I wanted to post that. The Germans were the only nation with good communication among tank crews and across tanks.

I don't see how this invention is stupid... esp given how useful it was in WWII.

 

[PM650]

kinda fail for leaving out the xray based shoe sizing device

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undark

Agree on the shoe thing, some were still in use by the 1970s apparently


lulz @ US Radium Corporation

The United States Radium Corporation was a company operated between the years 1917 to 1926 in Orange, New Jersey, in the United States. After initial success in developing a glow-in-the-dark radioactive paint, the company closed in the late 1920s in the wake of severe illnesses and deaths of workers who had ingested radioactive material when they licked their brushes to paint the thin lines needed on watch dials. Workers had been told that the paint was harmless.[1] During World War I, the company sold many of its watches to the United States Army for use by soldiers.[2]
U.S Radium was the subject of major radioactive contamination of its workers, primarily women who painted the dials of watches and other instruments with luminous paint.

 

[rasczak]

check this link out for more

http://www.nydailynews.com/money/ga...ntions__ever/most_inane_inventions__ever.html

the chick in #11 looks kinda hawt on that invention. rawr!

 

[BW86]

lol, some of those are pretty cool actually