In April 2003, after twenty years of servicing a nation's requirements for battery rechargers and motorised tie holders, time was called on the original Innovations Catalogue. With its sad demise, a host of products designed solely to ease our troubled lives ceased to be so readily available. The Chin-Gym for instance, a metal facial contraption for getting rid of excess jowl flab, or the pocket chain-saw 'cuts higher, lower, and faster', or 'the bin that's almost too good for rubbish'. Here, we have scoured the Innovations Catalogue library to pay tribute to the best and most exciting products from its illustrious history.