until someone really understands what they re good for and that s sometimes not what the inventor had in mind. a staple of packaging and childhood favorite is bubble wrap the idea came out of the one nine hundred fifty s. when a couple of american inventors stuck together to shower curtains with tiny bubbles between baking a space age wallpaper which is perfect for an age fascinated with space age futurism and well wallpaper but no one bought it at least not as wallpaper now it s a must have for anyone shipping packages or moving or take a sticky note or post it is started with a search for super glue but the recipe for the adhesive in this case was so bad that things glued with it could be pulled apart without leaving a trace and voila a product that took off across the world. and this little blue pill look familiar and the early one nine hundred ninety s. vi agora went into testing as a heart medication but before long the researchers discovered its real potential lay in a completely