Worst things ever invented.

United States
September 20, 2008 4:03pm CST
I was watching Jay leno the other night and they were showing things that were totally odd inventions for dogs like a sweater thing to put over dogs ears to keep them warm. the dog looked so uncomfortable it was hilarious. I have also seen a sweatshirt that the cut a hole out of the arm so you can see your watch oO anyways, what do you think are the worst inventions, or you know, just things you have seen / heard of that are totally pointless.
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• United States
20 Sep 08
Two inventions drive me so crazy that I think their inventors should be publicly flogged! What fool invented the neverending hold button, so that the rest of us can waste many, many hours of each day? And then some fool came up with the automated answering/routing machine that protects humans from us, especially if we really need to contact them in a major hurry! I've waited a total (over several days) of 19 hours to ask how to go about returning a product I didn't order and don't want to pay for, and I haven't gotten through yet. Before long, the period of time allowed for returns will end, and there's not a return address on the package or the product! Those clever scammers will bill my account for something I want to return!
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• United States
20 Sep 08
There's a website called Realpeople.com that lists many of the numbers we need, bcan't keep up!
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• United States
20 Sep 08
That so happned to me with a student loan! i couldnt figure out how to bypass the automated stuff to talk to somebody to get information. it was horrible! They really do need to get rid of those..
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20 Sep 08
I totally agree with that one. I hate not being able to speak to a real person. It's so frustrating when you get it even for something as simple as trying to book cinema tickets. Automated voice: Please name the cinema you would like tickets for. Me: Kettering Automated Voice: I'm sorry I didn't get that. Please repeat. Me: Kettering Automated Voice: I'm sorry I didn't get that. Please repeat. Me: KETTERING Automated Voice: I'm sorry, we have no cinema listings for...Leighton Buzzard. (Then someone coughs in the background which it seems to register as you wanting to go back to the beginning again.) Drives me crazy.
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20 Sep 08
There's a small exhibit in the British Library at the moment of useless or strange inventions. For example, the "digitorium" - a soundless piano to exercise the fingers, steering wheel warmers, self pouring teapot and loads more I can't quite remember. Yet some of them seem like really good ideas, for example a hollow necklace for putting your chewing gum in when you're finished with it - I could often do with one of them.
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• United States
20 Sep 08
dude that is awesome! i didnt know they had exhibits like that... and as for a soundless piano.....im a music major and that would be a little pointless...you cant tell when you are hitting a wrong note
20 Sep 08
I think it was meant so that people could warm up their fingers without disturbing anyone - possibly useful if you have particularly stiff fingers, but I don't think it set the music market alight - or it wouldn't be a library exhibit I suppose.
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• United States
20 Sep 08
i just dont see how a musician would want a soundless piano...it kind of defeats the purpose... to each his own i suppose.