35 Products That Make So Much Sense, It Doesn’t Make Any Sense That They Aren't Invented Yet

Since the beginning of our history, humans have been inventing stuff. That’s how, from the sticks and stones we had way back in the day, we now have Wi-Fi. Well, for that to happen, humans had to overcome quite a few obstacles and come up with quite a few inventions. 

According to this “10 Inventions That Changed Your World” article, it all started with the invention of stone tools, which is dubbed “humanity’s earliest technology.” It was something rather basic, but it ended up leading humanity to far greater inventions. 

Then, such inventions (in no particular order) as the Bessemer process (the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel), the daguerreotype (the first successful form of photography), the light bulb, and phonograph cylinders (the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound) to name a few, followed. 

Of course, not mentioning such important inventions to today's world as the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, the integrated circuit (or simply a microchip), and the Apple II personal computer would be a crime. Without them, the world definitely wouldn’t be the same. 

Granted, a similar thing could be said about any of the inventions. Have you heard of the butterfly effect? Basically, it’s a theory that even the smallest change can cause large differences later. So, applying this to the topic of inventions essentially means that even if something that seems relatively meaningless gets invented, it actually might lead to the creation of way bigger things. 

Yet, in today’s world, it might seem that everything that could have been invented already has been. At this point, we are only inventing stuff that is extremely weird and somewhat meaningless. For instance, Tomatan – a robot that feeds you tomatoes. 

Well, people in this online thread would probably argue with you about that – in their opinion, there are still things that haven’t been created. From improving the process of finding a remote control to sunscreen not being topical, or medical procedures such as making mammograms less uncomfortable – these folks had plenty of ideas.

Naturally, when talking about innovations, we can’t forget the elephant in the room – artificial intelligence. In recent years, it has become clear that AI is infiltrating basically every single aspect of life, and some more than others – from healthcare to schools to everywhere else. 

So, we shouldn’t be surprised that from now on, most of the innovations we’re going to have in the future likely will have something to do with AI. Whether it's generating an idea, helping with design, organization, or realization – AI is capable of all of these tasks. 

Since artificial intelligence is guaranteed to uproot the world of innovation as we know it (for better or for worse), maybe it will at least be able to come up with a way to bring the ideas on this list to life. But who knows? We’ll have to wait and see.