Underrated Invention #1: Pillows

One day a group of my friends were gathered and this question was posed to us, "what is the greatest invention of all time?" We debated it a while saying things like the microchip, the radio, and the wheel. After thinking about it a while I decided, who cares what the greatest invetion is. Why does everything have to be the greatest? The Playstation isn't the most significant invention ever but it sure is a lot of fun. So I decided let's forget about the greatest invention of all time. I want to talk about some inventions that aren't the greatest, but are still great. These are the inventions that are helpful but underrated and we usually take them for granted.

The first invention in my series of underrated inventions is the Pillow. Think about this for a minute. How many objects do you use every single day? How many objects do you use for five to eight hours (depending on how lazy you are) a day? The only thing besides my bed, pillow, and blanket that I can think of is my computer. I don't even use my pants for eight hours out of the day!

Imagine if someone decided pillows were being taken for granted and he collected all the pillows in the world. Can you imagine how uncomfortable it would be? We've been spoiled for so many years having that nice fluffy object under our head.

I was unable to discover the genuis who first thought up the pillow, nor could I find a date that pillows were invented but pillows at least date back to the Ancient Egyptians. We know this because many old Egyptian tombs had pillows inside. The Egyptians seemed to think it was important to lay the deceased person's head on a pillow because they always had nicely decoreated pillows. Those Egyptians like their frills.

On the other hand the Chinese were hardcore. They believed that using a nice fluffy pillow would rob a person of their vitality. So the Chinese used pillows made out of wood and ceramic materials. That kind of defeated the point doesn't it? Not that I'm going to argue with the Chinese, because they are hardcore.