#10: in the 50s (or so), parenting books and possibly doctors recommended that a baby be exposed to a certain amount of direct sunlight each day. The cages were popular in urban areas where a family might be living in an apartment without access to a yard. They are not used today for many obvious reasons. Also, the portable sauna is still available for purchase from various companies. I wouldn't say it 'caught on' but I've seen them for sale (especially in SkyMall).

#12. I need one of these, shame they didn't catch on.

The Yodeling Meter is for decibels, not pitch.

I love how the lady looks on in disdain in #14. “Dear, those will never work.”

Isn't the external turkey roaster basically the same as a vertical rotisserie? Because every Döner Kebab place has one of those.

14. What's the pitch here? “They like clown hats… for your tits!”

The portable TV thing actually did kinda catch on in various forms. Open up a Hammacher Schlemmer (sp?) catalog and you'll see those weird goggles you hook up to a DVD player that allegedly make the one and a half inch screens in front of your eyes look like seventy feet high. And most iPod and iPod-like devices can play TV shows on their own, and you can take those anywhere, so, you know. Today I actually saw a Kingdom Hearts Snuggie for sale. We may be laughing at them someday, but right now they make me wanna cry.

The children of the future will not be laughing at the Snuggie in the same way we laugh at some of these. The operative word in the description of this article is “never,” because where these never caught on, the Snuggie, regrettably, has.

Didn't the Daleks use one of those flying platforms in the old Doctor Who comics to get around?

I don't know how we've gotten along without the Yodel Meter.

Didn't the portable sauna “catch on?”

I would legitimately use the Finnish portable sauna.