7 Things That Ended Up In Completely The Wrong Place - Page 5 of 9

Bubble wrap as wallpapers

Let us first realize that not every invention comes out of necessity. These inventors Alfred W. Fielding and Mark Chavannes made the cool bubble wrap (Who doesn’t like bubble wrap?) but did not really know what to do with it. They decided their wondrous new material could be sold as “bubble wallpaper”, as the “must have” interior decoration thing. I don’t understand why this idea failed. I would never get bored if I had such a wall. Then the inventors thought of selling these as greenhouse insulations but the idea massively failed again. It only got recognition when IBM opted for these low cost unsold wallpapers for packaging of the hardware they made.