Every day, hundreds of unique inventions designed to solve pressing human problems and make our lives easier, appear. However, not all devices are successful, and some of them cause only bewilderment.

The 1970s were an experimental playground where tech optimism mingled with countercultural quirkiness to yield strange inventions. Some were innovative, some pointless, some disasters. These ...

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The early 2000s produced inventions that felt less like practical tools and more like props from a slightly awkward sci-fi movie. You watched familiar analog staples vanish almost overnight, replaced ...

Some technology at MWC is groundbreaking. Some of it is just plain weird. These are the oddball inventions that made the show ...