30 stupid inventions

[deadrats]

no, this thread isn't on the list:

http://www.life.com/image/3270485/in-gallery/25371/30-dumb-inventions

i have a feeling that number 3 may just possibly lead to a few lawsuits...

[Noahtuck]

That first one is not so stupid, the military actually has some high tech weapons that you can also see around corners to fire and over walls.

Saw them on the history channel i think. One of those modern weapons or something along that line.
Where you can add them onto your standard weapon.

Was actually pretty cool.

& #7,

Laryngaphone, 1929

A man at a shipping exhibition in Olympia, London, demonstrating the ''Laryngaphone,'' a noise-excluding telephone which only transmits vibrations from the vocal chords when the microphone is placed against the throat or cheek. For the man who wants to annoy both his wife and his mistress

Not sure how stupid that is, maybe as a phone, but my dad still has his from WWII where you wore it on your throat like a choker and it has two round button pickups that went on both sides of your windpipe so they you could talk in a fighter without a microphone and not have all the background noise of the plane.

The illuminated tires are pretty cool though!!

[redwudz]

I also have one of those 'Finnish portable sauna' cabinets and it works really well.