Phone answering(?) robot
This robot was supposed to answer the phone while you are gone. Well it ended up missing one very important detail. It doesn't say anything at all. All it does is pick up the phone. So I think it should be called phone picker-upper.
Egg Cuber
This seems like a great idea but a kind of a useless idea that came around in 1977. People are still selling it... or getting rid of it...
Baby cage
Before reading about this invention I knew this was something to put here. I have heard of a couple versions of this absurd idea. One of them is to hang the cage out of a window maybe 3 or 4 stories high. The second one is for parents who's baby's sleep with them in bed. The baby is put between the two parents in a cage that is diamond shaped.