A curved barrel machine gun? A speechless phone-answering robot? A “tasty” mixture of honey and vinegar called Honegar? Brilliant, you say? Ingenious, you mutter. No, they’re just some of the 30 dumb inventions over at Life. These historical blunders are quite entertaining and I bet people are still coming up with dumb inventions. In fact, I’ll give you a few off the top of my head: rechargeable toilet paper, inflatable contact lens, heated ice cube trays and a dateless calendar. Can you come up with some?

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