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Inventions you didn't know you needed

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Correspondent Jeanne Moos looks at some inventions distantly related -- if at all -- to necessity
Windows Media 28K 80K

September 22, 1999
Web posted at: 9:56 p.m. EDT (0156 GMT)

NEW YORK (CNN) -- There are practical inventors who came up with useful items such as telephones, light bulbs and computer chips.

Then there are those creative minds whose products go above and beyond mere utility.

Some of those items were displayed during the annual search for the most inventive inventions, sponsored by one of America's quirkiest retailers.

Watch this report to see the cream of this year's crop.



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