Bizarre Inventions: History's Wild Gadgets

0:00It's March 23rd. From red carpets to breaking stories, this is entertainment and celebrity news, powered by AI. History is full of wild inventions that make you wonder what people were thinking. Stacker recently rounded up 26 bizarre ones using old black and white photos from Getty Images. We're talking gadgets like a 1930s window baby cage that dangled infants outside high rises for fresh air or a mass shaving machine that could lather up a dozen guys at once in the 1800s. Some aim to solve everyday headaches in crazy ways. Take the dinosaur, a 1932 monowheel dreamed up by a British inventor. It hit 30 miles per hour but flipped riders on hard stops. Or the family bicycle from the early 1900s with room for four, including a spot to sew while pedaling. Then there was the yodel meter from around 1925, measuring singer's pitch before digital tools existed. These odd balls often sparked laughs or safety scares. The rubber bumper from the 1930s tried to cushion pedestrian hits amid 20,000 yearly

1:04car deaths while vibrating hip-trimers in. The 1920s promised weight loss without gymtime marketers later paid millions for false claims. A few, like the urban baby cage, even landed on worst invention lists. Many ideas live on in smarter forms today. Many tires from good year glow on a restored 1954 concept car, spaghetti winters got battery boosts and video phones evolved. Into FaceTime, water taxis and amphibious bikes still splash around too. It's a fun reminder that today's hits often sprang from yesterday's flops, pushing us toward better designs.