30 Unusual Tools Designed To Solve Problems That Many Of Us Have Never Even Thought Of (New Pics)

Doesn't ducks come with those wing thingies anymore?

The hard part was teaching the ducks to read...

They have them on the Kennet and Avon canal

But wings...?

Awww

Prothstetics always look so cool.

My first thought was "ankles are going to get cold". Then I realized. #dopeslap

Brilliant and awesome. 🤘🏻

I am so glad to see these sort of accommodations becoming more common! When my youngest brother was alive (he died in 2010) the only thing we could really get for him to use when his wheelchair couldn't access places was a toddler sized 'mountain buggy'. Basically it was a three wheeled pram but the tyres were wider, so it could go on the sand etc easier. He had mostly grown too big for it by the time he died.

The seat does not look too comfortable though, does it?

Went hiking to a regional park in Ontario a few years ago. They have a wooden boardwalk that weaves in and out of the trees around the lake - and the visitor centre loans out ATV-style wheelchairs so ANY visitor can go around the lake. [chef's kiss] Beautiful.

My grandmother loved the beach so much, but had bad hips late in life. My sister and I struggled so much the last time we took her. We could have taken her a few more times with something like this.

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Anyone else hear banjos?

It's such a small thing but certainly useful

Just use a needle threader

And here I am trying to guide it through the hole with my fingers like a chump.

So a high tech paper clip?

I always wondered how they got words onto cardboard efficently

So, to get The Lords Prayer, for example, on a piece of cardboard, you ‘de need a roller, about, what, 300 feet in circumference ?

Does this work like the piano that play tunes recorded on metal drums? Does it have a programmable thing that writes the words needed?

IS THAT DARMAN

I have a different kind that looks more like a nut cracker

this is a very old cherry pitter. my mom had one and it was like a finger torture device. it may look like it is simple to use but after a few minutes of using it your fingers would cramp and sometime launch that pit with the velocity of a .38 slug

I have an antique cherry pitter, the kind that you place 4 cherries and it rotates around. BUT modern store-bought cherries are too big to fit in the slots!

You can also heat the decal with a blow dryer and use a plastic scraper to reduce the amount of damage to your paint/wall

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I recall my dad having one of these at some point. Don't know what happened to it. It allows you to measure the distance along windy roads by "driving" the wheel on the bottom along it.

I have one of these. its cool.

As long as the device is set for the same scale.

We had one at school. Literally one, we had to share it

It's not a compass. It measures distances on a map.

Today I learned bowling alleys do this

So that's where the Roomba went after escaping through the front door. It was its bowling night.

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These were so fun to watch when I was a kid 😆

Won't stop an Endo, unfortunately! Bowling is their favorite pastime!

Have run one many many times

This would've been a great cheating tool fo HS! We suffered technical drawing for a whole year! Each activity was done twice, 1st in pencil over graph paper, and a second on white, in ink. You needed a lot of things to achieve that, rules, squares, assorted Rotrings ranging from 0.1 to 0.8, and pencils lead (4H, HB, 2B). Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

How does it work?

I remember in the '80 using the same kind of device from Rotring, but it was an electronic version that could not only draw letters but also nuts and bolts, if you had the proper extension cartridges

A spent a few years earning a living with these things. Just sold mine a couple of years back.

I feel like this kerjigger looks more complicated than it should be

swiffer works just as well

not sure why you would use this rubber skirting with carpet? thought the point of it thats its sealed and watertight for easy cleaning in hospitals/toilets etc in which case a mop would do!

I guess this eventually pays for itself, instead of wasting potatoes

Aren't LED-lightbulbs obligatory yet where you live? Can't even buy normal lightbulbs anymore (Netherlands). The LED ones have a stronger base, haven't seen a broken one yet.