Prize for most usless product ever? :)

[Faram]

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[EmperorMing]

Nothing like nostalgia...

[weemadando]

The segway.

That is all.

[haas mark]

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[aerius]

I actually have a book of useless inventions I picked up from the bargain bin somewhere. Among the inventions..

Muffling Cup - Place this over you mouth so you can scream and yell without disturbing people

internal hat mounted fan - cools your head

I'll get the book later today and look up more

[haas mark]

Muffling Cup - Place this over you mouth so you can scream and yell without disturbing people

Have you ever actualy tried screaming into a cup? YOu run out of breth real fats, and it gives you a nasty headache.

[aerius]

Muffling Cup - Place this over you mouth so you can scream and yell without disturbing people

Have you ever actualy tried screaming into a cup? YOu run out of breth real fats, and it gives you a nasty headache.

It's a special cup with vents and filling, works kinda like a car muffler from what I remember of the diagrams. Supposedly overcomes the problems that you mentioned, but still, it's one weirdass invention. Question, and you would know about screaming into cups how?

[haas mark]

Muffling Cup - Place this over you mouth so you can scream and yell without disturbing people

Have you ever actualy tried screaming into a cup? YOu run out of breth real fats, and it gives you a nasty headache.

It's a special cup with vents and filling, works kinda like a car muffler from what I remember of the diagrams. Supposedly overcomes the problems that you mentioned, but still, it's one weirdass invention. Question, and you would know about screaming into cups how?

Its called being a kid.. Me and my sibs used to do it to see who could do it the longest.

[Ryoga]

I actually have a book of useless inventions I picked up from the bargain bin somewhere. Among the inventions..

Muffling Cup - Place this over you mouth so you can scream and yell without disturbing people

internal hat mounted fan - cools your head

I'll get the book later today and look up more

Chindogu!

Yeah, I have that book. It kicks ass. My favorite is the Fish Hood, so you don't have to look at a fish's face while you're cutting it's head off.

[neoolong]

Hey, that hat with the fan is cool. It's got a solar panel so you don't need batteries. It keeps you cool when you have to be outside. Just be careful for bullies.

[Larz]

The back scratcher...

[Kosh_The_Vorlon]

The Bible

Well, okay, that's not true..It makes a nice doorstop..

[haas mark]

The Bible

Well, okay, that's not true..It makes a nice doorstop..

Not to mention a good thwapping device. How about an idiot? That seems like something completely useless to me...

[johnmarkley]

Someone in Japan once marketed a helmet-mounted toilet paper dispenser.

[neoolong]

Someone in Japan once marketed a helmet-mounted toilet paper dispenser.

Yeah, there's a whole book on useless Japanese inventions. Somehow they seem to make a lot of them.

[Sea Skimmer]

The USAF coffee pots which can take 100g crashes that would disintegrate the plane. Never did hear if that was an urban legend or not. The USAF has done some screwy things.

[RadiO]

The Reflection Sketcher - "Makes Drawing Easy!"
Basically a "reflecting surface" (read "sheet of coloured transparent plastic") that allows you to accurately copy any image, er, provided you don't mind the copy being reversed. So that bollocks the accuracy claim, then.
It's good for kids, and was probably big news in 1955, but:

A) It was advertised as "hours of fun for adults and children" (emphasis mine). I can't see anybody over the age of 8 getting a shitload of thrills tracing a reversed image of a cow.

B) It's 2002, and they're still selling tat like this.

[phongn]

The USAF coffee pots which can take 100g crashes that would disintegrate the plane. Never did hear if that was an urban legend or not. The USAF has done some screwy things.

Probably an urban legend.

Thank goodness no-one brought up the "toilet seat" (it was a large fibreglass fairing that happened to include the toilet top) and the hammer (IIRC, it was beryllium allow for some exotic experiments).

[Sea Skimmer]

The USAF coffee pots which can take 100g crashes that would disintegrate the plane. Never did hear if that was an urban legend or not. The USAF has done some screwy things.

Probably an urban legend.

Thank goodness no-one brought up the "toilet seat" (it was a large fibreglass fairing that happened to include the toilet top) and the hammer (IIRC, it was beryllium allow for some exotic experiments).

Most of the USAF tools prices come from adding together the cost of all support equipment, including diagnostic computers and things like starter carts, and then dividing by the total number of tools. The result is some very cheep computers.

[Hyperion]

can't forget the $30 fire engines.

[weemadando]

Oooh! Those USAF ones remind me of a classic. NASA spending a shitload of cash and time developing a pen that would work in zero-G. While the Russians just used pencils.

[Sea Skimmer]

Oooh! Those USAF ones remind me of a classic. NASA spending a shitload of cash and time developing a pen that would work in zero-G. While the Russians just used pencils.

Now that I know is an Urban Legend.

[weemadando]

You sure?

I seem to remember reading about it in a reliable source.

[Hyperion]

Oooh! Those USAF ones remind me of a classic. NASA spending a shitload of cash and time developing a pen that would work in zero-G. While the Russians just used pencils.

Now that I know is an Urban Legend.

actually no it isn't. ever seen the "fischer space pen" that's what NASA spent millions developing... the russians used pencils, for real.

[aerius]

Rapid-Rise shifters and derrailleurs. Non mountain bikers probably won't know what I'm talking about. Basically it's having the gears on a mountain bike shifting in reverse, what you did before to shift to a harder gear now shifts it into an easier gear. Known to our bikeshop staff as "Rapid Demise", because we pray the stupidity of if will soon result in it's demise.