Fiction Useless Inventions
The Plant Pot That Reads Bedtime Stories
A glazed ceramic pot with a tiny built-in speaker that reads your houseplant a soothing story every evening, so you no longer have to feel guilty about never talking to it.
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Fiction Useless Inventions
The Very Patient Parking Sensor
A calm, non-judgemental parking sensor that never distracts you with nervous beeping while you reverse, and waits politely until after you have touched the wall to mention it.
Fiction Useless Inventions
The Snooze Negotiator
An alarm clock that will happily give you nine more minutes, but only after you have submitted a short written case explaining why you deserve them.
Fiction Useless Inventions
The Heritage Tangling Case
A handsome leather pouch for your old wired headphones that, with the help of a tiny motor, ties them into a proper knot overnight, just like they used to do by themselves.
Fiction Useless Inventions
The Diplomatic Thermostat
An office thermostat that gives every person who touches it exactly the temperature they asked for, on its little screen, while the actual room stays precisely where it was.
Fact-based How It Started
Bubble Wrap Began as a Wallpaper Nobody Wanted
Two inventors sealed a pair of plastic shower curtains together in 1957 hoping to make stylish textured wallpaper, and it took them years and a computer to find out what they had really made.
Fiction Useless Inventions
The Seat-Saving Sofa Cushion
It learns the exact shape of the person who sits there most, and when anyone else settles into that spot, it inflates, very politely, until they move.
Fiction Useless Inventions
The Goodbye Extender
A telescopic hallway that grows a little longer every time someone says right, we really should be going, and then does not go.
Fiction Useless Inventions
The Shoelace Referee
A clip-on whistle that shows you a yellow card for a loose shoelace, which sounds pointless until you meet the one person who truly needs it.
Fiction Useless Inventions
The Car Horn That Says Sorry
A hobbyist decided the loudest button in the car should also be able to apologise, so he gave the horn a second, much smaller voice.