The bagket joins a long list of weird and wonderful inventions that have been thought up around the world. Here, we list some of our favourites... They're meant to keep your feet dry in the rain ...

But despite the countless numbers of interesting, useful, and even groundbreaking inventions on the market, many other bizarre creations in history barely made it beyond their initial prototypes.

To find weird food inventions, we mined Google Patents for the strangest culinary creations going back to 1935, then looked into whether they’re being produced today. You know, just in case you ...

Image: Science and Invention Start Slideshow Hugo Gernsback ... Or, in the case of the office “isolator” pictured above, simply too weird for any time. Born in Luxembourg in 1884, Gernsback ...

Calvin’s invention set the entire Calvin and Hobbes comic in motion. However, after the first couple of comic strips, Hobbes’ unusual origin was never referred to again. Oh, you want to play ...