I know they are important in nature's scheme of things, but I don’t really feel the need for a lot of insects, creepy crawlies that exist in the world. Similarly, there are a lot of useless things in the world – things that I learned in school and never used again. And then there are useless inventions – things designed to make us waste our time, and some of these listed below for instance.
Yes, this is what it sounds like – you spray on something that claims to be ‘hair fibre’ that is supposed to ‘thicken hair’. Mostly though, it seems to just colour the scalp so that it doesn’t show through the thin hair. When done badly, it can look quite awful.
For sun-shy Indians who revere far skin and will do everything possible to avoid a suntan, this would be the most useless invention ever. This invention is for those who want that just-off-the-beach bronzed look – and perhaps skin cancer for free – because there is no such thing as a risk free tan!
Someone had a brainwave in the 1980s – but decades later it hasn’t quite caught on for fairly obvious reasons. It is a little something for people who have little to no will power to resist the urge to eat. So can’t one just remove the mask? Apparently there is a locking feature and in an emergency the strap can be cut.
The understanding is that some of the best ideas occur to people when they are in the shower (Archimedes, anyone?) So they should have some way of recording those brilliant thoughts right there and then. The only problem is, not too many of us have very bright ideas – while showering or otherwise. So this note pad, which works in the shower may be reasonably useless for most of us – most of us who shower in the usual five minutes or so, that is.
Yes, this is exactly what it sounds like – a kit to train fish – to swim through hoops, play with balls, go through tunnels etc. Why? Perhaps because some people were really, really bored or they really, really overestimated the intelligence of fish? BTW, this product has nearly 200 4*+ ratings on amazon.com.
This is supposed to be useful if a person, while out walking suddenly felt the urge to lie down and go to sleep right at that moment? Either that or this is just a full-body warm suit that has been grossly misnamed.
I think this could count as one of the simplest legal scams ever: in the 70s an ad exec came up with the idea of pet rocks. There were smooth stones from a Mexico beach and came in customised cardboard boxes with ‘breathing holes’. This was supposed to be the perfect pet – one that did not “need to be fed, walked, bathed, or groomed, and it would not die, become sick, or be disobedient.” It required little or no effort to 'invent' this truly useless product - it is actually rather clever.
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