Although technology may have advanced to phenomenal heights, it has been used to create some absurd inventions whose use can be termed as silly or not required by man. Such inventions increased during the thirties and forties. So take a look at the worlds silliest inventions till date.
Skate rollers modified with an engine that runs on gasoline. But!! Why would one want to spend so much money on gasoline without even having a car? There is no convenient factor where just one person can travel.
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Perhaps this could have served as the base for the concept augmented and virtual reality which was ultimately created by Google and Microsoft. Television glasses though served no real purpose.
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A modified version of the baby pram, this was invented to keep babies asleep through music and sound form the radio with the help of an antenna and radio attached to the stroller. It looked a bizarre contraption and certainly not safe for a baby.
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Poker requires you to keep a serious ad straight face without emotion so that other players will not make out what you’re thinking. This was called the poker face to keep your expressions concealed.
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Such a contraption would undoubtedly fail I this day and age where people are more health conscious than before. Imagine smoking twenty cigarettes at one go. Of course that’s a huge decrease on your lifespan.
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Dimples enhance ones beauty no doubt but people are only born with them which is why an apparatus was invented just for those crazy over dimples. As you can see it also looks weird.
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Just because people got fed up of eating the boiled egg that looked the same, this was invented and promoted to spruce up your egg visually. It actually created cube shapes out of your boiled eggs but what good is that. It tastes the same.
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Dog pliers were invented because of some people wanting to keep dogs as a social status but not wanting to handle them when bathing the dogs or grooming. Dog pliers allowed people to handle dogs without the need for washing their hands.
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Even beauty has never been spared by science and though there are umpteen numbers of contraptions and methods for beauty enhancement, this was used for helping a person apply makeup in the right spots. Although redundant, the idea itself isn’t a bad one.
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Among silliest inventions, this must have been pretty useful by keeping mice at bay but would it work in this day and age. Having a meow machine to emit loud meows is much like having an invisible cat around the house.
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Although this looks weird in present day, perhaps it was the only technology available at the time for drying hair which is why it might have been popular among women and beauty spas. However it is redundant today as you have the portable hair dryer.
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Well! Imagine that!! An actual contraption to hang up a baby when you are occupied or go skating and need him safe but is it really? It also looks stupid to have two people carry around a baby like that when one would have done the trick.
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This looks more like a weird blob or balloon but having your portable sauna in those days was more of a social thing. Today of course saunas and gym are more the best area to stay healthy and socialize as well.
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Why would one want to put a baby in a cage because it looks totally unsafe but perhaps its necessary to understand the age and time when such contraptions ultimately served as the base for improved ones such as the baby crib or playpen.
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Well, you can understand using visual enhancements in cocktails with paper or cloth umbrellas, but an umbrella over a cigarette for making it look more sophisticated is downright absurd and one of the silliest inventions of the time.
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