Author: Jessica Leigh Hester / Source: Atlas Obscura
Some wonders are riotous, introduced with fanfare and endlessly discussed. Others are quietly brilliant, but no less ingenious and impactful.
Take the bread clip. It’s hardly ostentatious—it’s flimsy, disposable, and fills a pretty specific niche.
But, as my colleague Eric Grundhauser wrote last spring, it solved a tricky problem in a brilliantly simple way. According to company lore, Floyd Paxton, the founder of Kwik Lok, which manufactures the little plastic tabs, whittled a prototype from a credit card to cinch a bag of…The post Help Us Choose the Most Overlooked Invention appeared first on FeedBox.