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 ...

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 ...

Odd inventions often appear unnecessary at first glance. Still, some gadgets provide clever solutions to common frustrations.

These are strange inventions we didn't know we needed. In 2021, a prototype making it possible to taste food on television was tested in Japan. In 2024, a life-saving device that helped police during ...

After 7,000 years of "drinking tubes" across many civilizations, two men reinvented the straw in the last 150 years. The first made it modern. The second made it bend. sketch bendy straw.jpg Image ...

Some games become legendary not just for being great, but because of how much their inspiration is felt in the games that come after them. Just think of how much Demon’s Souls has influenced the ...