From TIME Magazine: The 50 Worst Inventions of All Time

This is great stuff. Check the full list here, but a couple of highlights below.

The Baby Cage



In the 1930s, London nannies lacking space for their young ones resorted to the baby cage. It's exactly what it sounds like: a creepy wire contraption, patented in the U.S. in 1922, that lets you claim that space outside your city window for your infant.

New Coke



The "newer, sweeter" version, introduced April 23, 1985, succeeded in blind taste tests but flopped in the real world. Phone calls, letters and rants from Coke die-hards flooded in, and just three months after its debut, New Coke was removed, and the word Classic was added to all Coke cans and bottles

*Two conspicuous absences here: Crystal Pepsi (although nice use of Van Halen in the marketing) and neo-cons.