Why do Lala's inventions always turn out to be defective? Lala's inventions in To-Love-Ru are always defective, mostly the cause of problems in every episodes. But why are Lala's inventions defective when Peke once explained (Motto To-Love-Ru Episode 6 "Night Tutor" to be exact) about how universally genius Lala is?
Looking at the list of Lala's invention on Wikipedia page of To-LOVE-ru - Japanese version), or a less complete list on To-LOVE-ru Wikia, most of Lala's invention has caused some sort of trouble as seen in the source material.


There are a number of inventions which are created and used right away without testing.
For example, unnamed drug in chapter 54 of original series, given to Rito when he disguises as his father during Mikan's house visit.
There are a number of inventions which explodes, or activates too easily, or not idiot-proof.
There are a number of inventions which has unwanted side-effects.
For example, Pyon-Pyon Warp-kun usually only warps living things, leaving the person naked after warped.


However, there are a number of inventions which are mostly stable, such as Peke, D-Dial and the expansion to Rito's house.

My theory is that all of Lala's inventions are work-in-progress or proof-of-concept, and the more an invention is used (which is equivalent to testing), the more stable it is. She is a genius in the sense that she can quickly create a working proof-of-concept. However, since she is not making a product, she doesn't feel a need to make her inventions practical, safe-to-use and idiot-proof.