10 Bizarre Inventions That Never Made It To Your Home.

With so many bright and inspired minds in the world today, the market is bound to be saturated with some inventions that are a bit odd. Today’s article compiles ten inventions that were meant for homes but were simply too bizarre to flourish for too long. The reasons for why these products failed vary, from major inefficiency to overall ineffectiveness.

Some of these are far more outrageous than others. For instance, the ‘baby window cage’ depicted in this article is an almost objectively bad invention. Considered a space-saving solution for families in crowded cities in the 1930's, this invention was meant to be a cage placed on the outside of a window in your home, which you then put your child into! That’s right, you were supposed to put a real, baby human into this thing! This is likely the most dangerous invention depicted in this article.

In other cases, some inventions simply seemed to be too ahead of their time. Look at the “phone answering robot”. This invention is exactly what the name implies and would likely be very useful right now, but with the limited technology of the 1950's, it simply wasn’t practical to attempt to put out an invention like this.

Here are 10 Bizarre Inventions That Never Made It To Your Home-

1. SPRAY ON HAIR

First hitting the infomercials in the 1990's, spray on hair offered a cheaper alternative for bald people. Shame it looked more like paint in a can.

Invented:1990's

2.THE SHOWER HOOD

Looking more like a beekeeper's hood, it's clear to see why a shower cap is more popular nowadays.

Invented:1970's

3.BUTTER STICK PAN

For when a knife just won't do it.

Invented:Unknown

4.THE READAMATIC PACER

The Readamatic Pacer was designed to increase reading speed. Unpractical and noisy, not surprising it didn't take off.

Invented: 1963

5. CAT DUSTER SLIPPERS

Cat Duster Slippers aim to rid your house from dust. Only Problem is that cats tend too sleep a lot and would end up doing less dusting than you.

Invented:Unknown

6. VIRTUAL BOY

Marketed as the first 'portable' video game console, Virtual Boy failed to live up to it's projections and was discontinued just over a year after it's release. It is now considered collectors item.

Invented: 1995

7. THE BABY WINDOW CAGE

Considered a space saving solutions for families in crowded cities, it's safe to say it was pretty dangerous for babies in the 1930's.

Invented:1930's

8. PHONE ANSWERING ROBOT

Reportedly unable to talk, record the callers message or play a greeting, this robot pretty much had no use.

9. CUTLERICKS

What can only be described as chopsticks with a knife and fork on the end. Why not just use a normal knife and fork?

Invented: Unknown

10. THE EXTERNAL TURKEY ROASTER

Although a roasted turkey is very nice, having such a huge machine for one task seems very impractical.

Invented: Unknown