Time’s List of Worst Inventions

June 2, 2010

According to Time, these are the inventions that are quite bright but just didn’t work out in no particular order. It includes the famous Facebook game, Farmville which according to Time is “hardly even a game —it's more a series of mindless chores on a digital farm, requiring the endless clicking of a mouse to plant and harvest crops.”
  1. Segway
  2. New Coke
  3. Clippy
  4. Agent Orange
  5. CueCat
  6. Subprime Mortgages
  7. Crinoline
  8. Nintendo Virtual Boy
  9. Farmville
  10. Hydrogenated Oils
  11. Honegar
  12. Hydrogen Blimps
  13. Hair in a Can
  14. DDT
  15. Auto-Tune
  16. Red Dye No. 2
  17. Ford Pinto
  18. Parachute Jacket
  19. Betamax
  20. Baby Cage
  21. Tanning Beds
  22. Crocs
  23. Hula Chair
  24. Foursquare
  25. Pop-Up Ads
  26. Phone Fingers
  27. CFCs
  28. Plastic Grocery Bags
  29. Bumpit
  30. Electric Facial Mask
  31. Sony CD Copy Protection
  32. Venetian-Blind Sunglasses
  33. Pet Spa
  34. Pontiac Aztek
  35. Snuggie for Dogs
  36. Mizar Flying Car
  37. Asbestos
  38. Olestra
  39. Comfort Wipe
  40. Fake Ponytails
  41. HeadOn
  42. Pay Toilets
  43. Tamagotchis
  44. Leaded Gasoline
  45. Vibrating Ab Belt
  46. Spam E-mail
  47. Smell-o-Vision
  48. Smile Checks
  49. Microsoft Bob
  50. Vio

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