Best worst ideas or inventions ever!

lifeandtimes

Let's hear boards collective creative genius for making or creating something that is absolutely pointless but is brilliant in it own right.

Il go first.

A digital picture or painting frame that has flowers that die over time like real flowers and you have to pay through an app on the frame for new flowers to be put on it.

Need to get a cleaner of some sort for hardwood/laminate/tiled floors and amid all the sales palaver of how brilliant such-and-such a Dyson is at cleaning such floors for €370, the thought occurred to me: surely an old-fashioned brush would be much better, and quieter, for cleaning hardwood floors than a noisy vacuum cleaner?

Yes, for carpets vacuums are best but maybe the vacuum cleaner's heyday has passed now that so many of us are shifting to hardwood etc floors?

unklerosco

A babysitter that is as good as netflix or youtube but doesn't make you feel like a **** parent....

Junkyard Tom

Side saddle motorbikes for polite ladies wot wears long dresses.

fergiesfolly

A QR code in a Christmas Cracker that let's you download a game to play at the dinner table.

I know. Fecking genius.

AllForIt

I don't think anything in my lifetime was worse than recordable CD's. The print on them faded over time , a short time in fact which left them unusable and I have lost data as a result, not that that was life threatening.

Junkyard Tom

A third sink tap for lukewarm water.

jonon9

The Atom bomb.

Noveight

I saw it mentioned in the Motors forum that touch screen displays in cars could be seen as a poor idea. In a car with switch/button controls you'll learn quickly enough how to control the heater or radio without looking. With a touchscreen you'll always have to take your eyes off the road to make sure you're making out the buttons.

Not major in the grand scheme of things, but food for thought at least.

Maggie Marie

Motor forum posters like playing with their knobs it seems ^

Roger_007

Electric carving knives!.......does anyone use one any more?

One More Toy

Vibrators. Makes women less promiscuous

James Bond Junior

Maggie Marie wrote: »

Motor forum posters like playing with their knobs it seems ^

Nobody knows how to turn our own knobs like ourselves..

NollagShona

No touch soap dispenser

Actimel

Donald Trump

Running for President

DEFTLEFTHAND

Has a woman ever invented anything of note?

Tipp ex is the only thing that comes to mind.


Most of these Western inventions and innovations seem to be from White males?

harry Bailey esq

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Has a woman ever invented anything of note?

Tipp ex is the only thing that comes to mind.

Don't forget peanut butter.

Grab All Association

JML

The_Valeyard

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Has a woman ever invented anything of note?

Tipp ex is the only thing that comes to mind.


Most of these Western inventions and innovations seem to be from White males?

Actress Hedy Lamarr,

Developed radio guidance for torpedoes during ww2

_Brian

Roger_007 wrote: »

Electric carving knives!.......does anyone use one any more?

2 or 3 times a week !

whoopsadoodles

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Has a woman ever invented anything of note?

Tipp ex is the only thing that comes to mind.


Most of these Western inventions and innovations seem to be from White males?

Windscreen wipers.

The glass now used in windscreens.

Two different women.

Icaras

The_Valeyard wrote: »

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Has a woman ever invented anything of note?

Tipp ex is the only thing that comes to mind.


Most of these Western inventions and innovations seem to be from White males?

Actress Hedy Lamarr,

Developed radio guidance for torpedoes during ww2

Jasus, who pissed her off.

JimmyMcGill

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Actress Hedy Lamarr,

Developed radio guidance for torpedoes during ww2

Was it a good film?

Donald Trump

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Has a woman ever invented anything of note?

Tipp ex is the only thing that comes to mind.


Most of these Western inventions and innovations seem to be from White males?

Wimmins from Tipperary are mental! Especially the one I used to go out with. I think she was invented by the devil himself

NollagShona

The not so subtle woman bashing again on Boards... great...

Del2005

NollagShona wrote: »

No touch soap dispenser

Actimel

Yes but they should invent no touch toilet door locks. Having to touch a lock which someone just covered in their fecal matter before you can drop your your own load isn't hygienic. And having inward opening doors to toilets should be banned, I've just sang "Happy Birthday" to myself twice while carefully washing my hands to then have to pull open a door covered in sh1te.

Billy86

Icaras wrote: »

Jasus, who pissed her off.

Probably the same guy who later wounds up with the woman that invented kevlar.

Billy86

Del2005 wrote: »

Yes but they should invent no touch toilet door locks. Having to touch a lock which someone just covered in their fecal matter before you can drop your your own load isn't hygienic. And having inward opening doors to toilets should be banned, I've just sang "Happy Birthday" to myself twice while carefully washing my hands to then have to pull open a door covered in sh1te.

Hand dryers cause rapid circulation of airborne fecal matter. Enjoy!

Buford T. Justice XIX

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Has a woman ever invented anything of note?

Tipp ex is the only thing that comes to mind.


Most of these Western inventions and innovations seem to be from White males?

Food in general, veg in particular. While males were off hunting/fighting, the females remaining were looking for and growing veg to supplement the diets during the growing seasons. Then they were at the forefront of preservation of food for the non growing seasons when game and stock might not be as plentiful.

corner of hells

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Has a woman ever invented anything of note?

Tipp ex is the only thing that comes to mind.


Most of these Western inventions and innovations seem to be from White males?

Didn't yer one , Marie Curie invent or discover something important.

GillLebowski

God.

the_pen_turner

Noveight wrote: »

I saw it mentioned in the Motors forum that touch screen displays in cars could be seen as a poor idea. In a car with switch/button controls you'll learn quickly enough how to control the heater or radio without looking. With a touchscreen you'll always have to take your eyes off the road to make sure you're making out the buttons.

Not major in the grand scheme of things, but food for thought at least.

it could have been me that posted that. I would pay extra for a knob to fiddle with:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
touch screen is really dangerous. my current van has buttons and I can use most of them without having to look . the touch screen I had on the last van was dangerous