Discover the 10 most amazing tools and useful inventions that are transforming our everyday life. In this video, we delve ...

Here are alarm clocks, mints, and other ancient inventions we still use today. Click here to read about the most useful appliances of the last 100 years. Jevtic / Getty Images.

I’m coming in with a hot take this week: plastics might just be the most useful inventions of the 20th century. ...

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Some of the most innovative and useful inventions have been inspired by nature. Take the Shinkansen bullet train in Japan, whose aerodynamic design is modeled after the kingfisher bird. Or Velcro ...