Have you ever heard someone use the term, chindōgu? This Japanese term literally translates to unusual tool. These are tools that might be useful and work, but they are strange and impractical. Kenji ...

Innovation rarely looks elegant at the start. Many of the ideas that quietly reshaped daily life began as punchlines, failed experiments, or odd little gadgets no one knew how to categorize. Friends ...

When it comes to bizarre inventions, this absurd pedestrian scooper takes the whole carriage. Car safety technology saw a dramatic improvement in the 21st century, but in the '30s, things were a lot ...

Sometimes we just don't get it quite right. One example is a wire-enclosed "baby cage" said to have been invented in 1922 as a way to suspend toddlers outside of apartment building windows as a means ...

13 Bizarre Inventions That Never Took Off Without inventions, we wouldn’t have many of the modern luxuries we have today. But not all inventions are major wins like cellphones, stoplights, or washing ...

An invention to keep from splattering your clothes and hair with broth as you slurp your noodles. Also worthwhile if you want your friends to think you are a flower. Chindogu are Japanese inventions ...

Hugo Gernsback was a pioneer in the world of science fiction during the first half of the 20th century—so much so that the Hugo Awards are named after him. But Gernback also edited serious tech ...

Fad Diet founder Tom Nardone discovers unusual and bizarre diet inventions that have received US patents. Nardone's also created other quirky websites, including Gingerbread Ghetto , showing the silly ...

While the photograph was real, Snopes was unable to determine whether the cone-shaped mask was a one-off invention in the 1930s, or if the device gained any type of popularity to protect people from ...