Behold the EYE MASSAGER from the 1920s:
Apparently it was not enough to have a gadget for massaging the body. By the 1920s, it was also deemed necessary to devise a mechanism to massage the eyeballs. This convoluted gadget was pressed to the face.
The user would then operate the small lever to compress the rubber bellows which would in turn emit cool puffs of air directly onto the eyeballs.
Link of the day: 1920s satnav and other gadgets that never quite took off
The 1920 GPS device looks just as useful as today’s. But what would you want?