13 Hilariously Absurd Inventions That Deserve to Be Real

Given the chance to redesign our world, there would probably be a few things we’d all like to change. Sure we could tackle the obvious ones like restructuring poorly designed highways or creating an effective mass transit system for a sprawling metropolis, but let’s get a little more creative than that. For instance, what if we could genetically modify peas into squares, so they’d stop rolling around on our plates? Or turn shrubs and lawns into sponges to prevent flooding? What would happen if you carried around an umbrella with a built-in garden on top? Sure, you wouldn’t save the world, but it might become a more interesting place. These fanciful ideas are just a few examples plucked from
Dominic Wilcox’s sprawling notebook of clever inventions.