Welcome to Joseph's Machines! Dive into a world of wildly creative and often ridiculous inventions that solve everyday problems in the most over-engineered ways possible. From hair-washing gadgets to ...

“It seems ridiculous that all these other crazy technologies are being built but we haven’t solved this super-basic problem,” says Katherine Homuth, whose company, Sheerly Genius, set out ...

Kiri Pritchard-McLean delves into the TV archives in search of clips on the theme of inventions. She discovers a ridiculous contraption for walking along rooftops, a soap opera made of sweet wrappers ...