Yes Im a big fan of kooky inventions. You know the combination toothbrush/flashlight/compass sort of thing that nobody wants. Popular Science magazine has opened their vaults and put a gallery together of the kookiest inventions to grace their pages. For instance in 1917, one inventor thought you just could not live without a combination piano-vacuum cleaner, adding new meaning to the phrase, "I suck at music." Illustration USPTO
Kooky inventions have a place in history just like everything else. It would be interesting to see the gallery.