inventions

For every life-changing invention like the wheel, there are hundreds of thousands of trivial creations that prove useless, harmful or just plain annoying. We searched the history books and pop culture archives to bring you 10 innovations, from the familiar to the obscure, that are definitely not the greatest thing since sliced bread. Read on and realize that a baby on a leash is rather civilized when compared to a baby in a cage. Anti-Eating Face Mask No more failing diets! Just strap this metal cage to your head and stuffing your face with cookies will be impossible. Breathing and speaking may be difficult as well but ...

Science can be dangerous, and the best people to tell you about it would be this list of unlucky inventors. Too bad they can’t, because their genius couldn’t keep them from dying as a result of their very own creations. Here are 10 inventors killed by their own inventions. Franz Reichelt – 1912 The scary part of the inventing process is sometimes you have to put your body on the line to prove that your invention works, even if it doesn’t. Austrian-born tailor Franz Reichelt believed that he was on to something with the “coat parachute,” a flight suit that would convert into a ...