Top 5 Most Worthless Inventions in History

 

Believe it or not, mankind has created even more useless things than this.

There are inventions/discoveries that have contributed a lot to humanity. Such as condoms, toilet paper and crisped rice chocolate.

What about fire and the wheel?

Oh, yeah, those too, though not as much as condoms, toilet paper and crisped rice chocolate.

Also, there are inventions that have contributed absolutely nothing. Zero. Nihil. Zippo. I could continue producing synonyms, but I guess you get the point.

In fact, not only do they contribute nothing but also they make your life harder. Sometimes, they make your life so hard that they cause you the desire to torment their inventors with the pear of anguish (medieval instrument of torture).

And yet! For some reason, those inventions are widely used and the guys who conceived the ideas are millionaires! Coincidentally, you will meet most of those inventions at malls.

Let us see the worst inventions in the history of mankind.

5. Automatic Doors: Used mostly at supermarkets. They are supposed to open when you come close. However, they often forget to do so; this is when you have to employ the dancing skills you acquired during the good, old days of the disco era and dance in front of the stubborn pair of doors for quite a while, until they decide to grace you with opening. 

But what if I was too little or not even born yet during the disco era and therefore I don't have this kind of dancing skills?

In that case, tough luck, son (or daughter). You will stay in that shop forever. Or until someone else exits it, provided that you're fast enough to come out before the doors close again.

They could have had normal doors installed instead, but NOOOO....

4. Wheel Controller: Theoretically, its aim is to make your racing gaming experience more realistic. What is actually does, though, is maim your fun even worse than Nickelodeon maimed the Spongebob Squarepants show after the third season.

Good luck figuring out how to have fun with this.

3. Escalator Stairs: In modern human civilization, there is no such thing as a mall without this kind of stairs. Their use is a mystery (I mean, seriously, how hard is it to ascend a fucking staircase by moving your feet?) and, furthermore, there is always a chance that you might be choked to death if your clothes or jewellerry get caught somewhere in the gaps at the top or the bottom of the staircase or turn into human mincemeat if the metal floor collapses beneath your feet (if you don't believe this can happen, watch THIS on your own responsibility and enjoy several months of nightmares!)

Fear not. You will reach the top alive. Most likely.

2. Automatic Faucet: The epitome of uselessness. Those who hang out at malls know full well what I'm talking about. Those faucets are supposed to turn on themselves when you come close and, likewise, turn off themselves when you walk away. They have the same problem as automatic doors (see above), many times over! By the time they have realized that you are around and decided to turn on themselves, you have contemplated all methods of suicide in the book. Moreover, it takes them a really long time to turn off themselves after you have walked away, which renders them terribly antienvironmental. The mall owners could have had plain, traditional faucets installed instead, but NOOOO...

Wasting water.

And now, the king of useless inventions (drumroll). Are you ready?

1. Hand Dryer: A terrible, antienvironmental waste of electrical energy for something that would have happened anyway within seconds. No words... 

It doesn't just look useless. It is useless.

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