(via Silly and Cruel Beauty Gadgets That Were Destined for Failure)
The dimple-maker (1930s)
4/9/1938- Chicago, IL: A young woman demonstrates a ‘dimple’ machine at the Inventor’s Congress in Chicago.
“I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”
— L. Frank Baum (The Land of Oz)
Sweden’s Museum of Failure: A spectacular catalogue of the world’s worst innovations
…Some products are just ludicrous and funny, like this terrifying mask promoted by the actress Linda Evans in 1999, which supposedly beautified by electrically shocking your face numerous times a month. ..