LAUGH BREAK---Time Magazine names 50 Worst Inventions of the Twentieth Century

TIME MAGAZINE ^ | May 27, 2000 | Dan Fletcher and Time staff writers

[Liz]

Yeah-—business model was bad.

Segway had a tip-proof GPS—until GWB mounted one.

Ironically, the wealthy investor who bought the idea from Kamen steered himself over a cliff to his death on a rocky path on his estate-—didn’t know it was used safely only on flat surfaces.

Once the wheel leaves the ground——disaster.

[Liz]

That one’s my fave invention disasters.

Smell-o-Vision-—and its putrid cousin-—Aromaroma——collossal cinematic flops that attempted spraying theatres w/ scents coordinated w/ movie scenes.

Smellovision was the brainchild of Mike Todd Jr-—one of Liz Taylor’s deceased husbands.

The promoters never factored in life-threatening allergies and the staying power of fragrances.

Some theatre goers fainted and some fled w/ eyes streaming and bronchial passages impaired.

The entire theater had to be recarpeted and reupholstered to rid the deathly smells that had built up after a week’s worth of Aromarama spraying “new-mown hay, trapped tiger,
jungle gardenia, and orange peel.”