From useless to outright ridiculous - here's a collection of the top ten gadgets and inventions that never should have left the drawing board.

Rob Spiegel

October 19, 2015

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The 20 Worst Inventions of All Time — Part 2

Here’s a new slew of unfortunate inventions and products. Some are relatively harmless – the baby mop that puts your baby to work polishing hardwood floor – and some are deadly dangerous – the Hindenburg, the Flying Pinto.

For the next collection, we’ll use your suggestions. We’re already including one from reader demand – the Segway. We’d like to hear more from you for our next series of ridiculous and dangerous inventions.

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Any others we missed. Comment below and let us know what you think is the worst invention of all time.

I wasn’t going to include Dean Kamen’s Segway in this list of product disasters. After all, it’s a real product. I see them in my neighborhood occasionally. There’s even a police version. But our readers shamed me into including it. Deep in the gut, engineers reject this expensive invention that doesn’t do much.
(Source: archive.fortune.com)

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Rob Spiegel has covered automation and control for 15 years, 12 of them for Design News. Other topics he has covered include supply chain technology, alternative energy, and cyber security. For 10 years he was owner and publisher of the food magazine Chile Pepper.

About the Author(s)

Rob Spiegel

Rob Spiegel serves as a senior editor for Design News. He started with Design News in 2002 as a freelancer and hired on full-time in 2011. He covers automation, manufacturing, 3D printing, robotics, AI, and more.

Prior to Design News, he worked as a senior editor for Electronic News and Ecommerce Business. He has contributed to a wide range of industrial technology publications, including Automation World, Supply Chain Management Review, and Logistics Management. He is the author of six books.

Before covering technology, Rob spent 10 years as publisher and owner of Chile Pepper Magazine, a national consumer food publication.

As well as writing for Design News, Rob also participates in IME shows, webinars, and ebooks.

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