12.04.25: The Failed Invention

Some inventions die quietly. A gadget hits the market, promising to change everything, and vanishes within a year. Remember Google Glass? A glimpse of the future nobody wanted yet. I like failed inventions though. They’re fossils of what could have been. Each one says, “we tried.” Humans are obsessed with progress, but failure is where imagination really lives. Somewhere, in a box, sits a device that almost changed the world. It didn’t. But it proves we’re willing to gamble on strange ideas. And one day, something equally ridiculous will stick, and everyone will forget it once seemed dumb.