Ladies and gentlemen, these are our ancestor’s infomercial products. Judge them lightly, but laugh heartily, for in 50 years’ time our great grandkids will laugh openly at our most-loved TV-bought gadgets.
Most deadly? Probably the “baby cage” (shown above), which promises to give your tiny tot a breath of fresh air while neglecting to mention the part about a deadly fall 12 floors down. The curved machine gun is another contender.
Most legitimate? Definitely the shower hood. It helped women protect their makeup in the shower, thus saving time if they were in a rush. Sadly for whoever invented it the device never caught on.
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Monday, October 3, 2011 at 6:10 PMThe shower makeup hood was cool because of the lovely nude lady :)
The illuminated tires were extremely cool! Imagine something like that with the low power stuff we have these days! Tron before Tron existed!
There’s nothing wrong with the curved sub-machine gun. Of course you can’t hit anything with them, they were used to provide fire from cover. Many countries had versions of them and they still make them today- albeit with attached LCD screens.