or a very specific and practical tool? Perhaps you never see but if it wasn't invented the simple would not function? Ball bearings? Makes me think of writing. Without a pencil and its progeny, which words would have gone unwritten. Without a mirror, which masks, silent. Think of the kitchen as a laboratory of invention. Spoons, spatulas, strainers, saucepans. Moving away from the beguiling "s" sounds -- can openers, mandolins, rice cooker, knives. You get the point No pun intended.
